Short film
Breaking Leaves
1998 · 20 min
A quiet, song-filled visit to rural healers gathering leaves, gentle and unhurried, offering calm insight rather than drama.
- Directed by
- Karen Kramer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow then home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion. Narrated by the people themselves –and with beautiful songs about the importance of leaves woven throughout – this poetic film gives unique insight into the culture.
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- Directed by
- Karen Kramer
- Genres
- Documentary
