AYAHUASCA | An anime born in the Andes

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An anime born in the Andes.

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An anime born in the Andes

Rooted in Kichwa-Andean cosmology, Ayahuasca explores consciousness and the journey inward.

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Kamay sits in meditation beside a fire, under the Milky Way.

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The title points inward

Ayahuasca follows a journey into consciousness and the mystery of how the world is seen.

Born in the Andes

Kamay and Sami walk down a colonial street at dusk, a volcano closing the view.

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The world is alive here

Ayahuasca grows from a Kichwa-Andean imagination where nature, spirit and the unseen belong to the same reality.

The story

Creation is another way of seeing

When a young painter crosses paths with an enigmatic Kichwa yachak, he is drawn into an Andean world where imagination, consciousness and spirit shape the way reality is seen.

The artist who learns to see.

Kamay paints at an easel before a ruined temple gate and its carved stones.

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The film begins before it moves

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Storyboard

You found Ayahuasca early

So you see one scene before the world sees it move.

Storyboard01 — 06

Storyboard

A boy and an old yachak stand at the edge of a night lake, facing a volcano under a field of stars. — 01 · Hakan
Do not look far away yet.

The boy looks up at the yachak, who keeps facing the water with his carved staff at his side. — 02 · Kamay
Then what should I look at?

Close-up of the yachak, white hair and beard, his carved staff beside him. — 03 · Hakan
The place from which you look.

Three drawings of one hand over the water: closed, reaching, and open. — 04 · Hakan
When you stop forcing, the world answers.

Close-up of the boy looking up at a single bright star. — 05 · Kamay
I see it...

The boy and the yachak from behind again, with rings of light open in the sky above the volcano. — 06 · Hakan
It did not open in the sky. It opened in you.

With you

Your name, from the beginning

It will appear in the film credits, alongside those who brought Ayahuasca to the screen. The campaign finances the complete animated feature.

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