BALIAN (The Healer)

/ / Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre

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Saturday 11:45 AM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 82 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel McGuire
Producers: Daniel McGuire and Injil Abu Bakar
Editor: Rachel Clark

Filmmaker in attendance

A film shot over 20 years, Balian (The Healer) depicts the rise and fall of a traditional Balinese healer after being ‘discovered’ by Western tourists. A fable of globalization that Alan Berliner calls “a magical portrait of a one-of-a-kind trickster/healer. It’s funny, too.”
(Mature content, viewer discretion advised)