Plant Medicine Cinema Series

Can entheogens heal where pharmaceuticals have failed?

Thursday 30th May

Iboga Nights 

Running time: 98 mins

Synopsis: David Graham Scot’s 2004 film DETOX OR DIE documented how with a single dose of iboga he quit his drug addiction, inspiring others to go down the same route. The psychedelic plant root hails from Africa where it has been used in religious ceremonies through countless generations. A burgeoning movement in the west has promoted iboga as a quick fix route to painless withdrawal. Now David wants to find out how truly effective iboga is. In a Dutch suburb several addicts embark on the long night of psychedelic detox under the watchful eye of an experienced Iboga practitioner. One client collapses and ends up on life-support, the provider is jailed and David starts to question the safety of iboga treatment. The film culminates with a nerve-wracking iboga session in London where the director himself administers the treatment. How does the filmmaker weigh up the ethics of involving himself so deeply in this controversial detox option and what will be his final resolve on the efficacy of it?

Tickets: £7.50

Doors: open at 7.30pm, screening starts at 8.00pm

An augmented cinema experience

A series of six film screenings exploring the use of plant medicines and entheogens in medicine as alternatives to pharmaceutical treatments.

As the cost of healthcare and pharmaceutical medicine increases, many are looking to alternatives for healing. In the face of a mental health crisis, how can entheogens assist with healing the scars that can’t be seen?

Our aim is to educate, to show the benefits and dangers inherent in using entheogens for medical treatment.