Flor da Montanha is an address in the city of Nova Friburgo, located in the hinterlands of Rio de Janeiro state. It’s a subdivision with houses, a temple, a church, a community. It is the songs from the Africas in Brazil, an Amazonian scent in southeastern Brazil. It is Umbanda and it is also Santo Daime.

In the lineage of Padrinho Sebastião – who was born in Acre state and studied under Mestre Irineu and founded Cefluris (Centro Eclético da Fluente Luz Universal Raimundo Irineu Serra) after his teacher’s passing – was the first Daime branch to reach Rio de Janeiro, in 1982. Around this time, when Daime communities were sprouting across the state, that Mãe de Santo Baixinha came to know about Daime and Sebastião. She helped Padrinho heal from a disease thanks to her knowledge of herbs, and thus started the approximation between both of their beliefs and everything they represent.

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FLOR DA MONTANHA (feitio)
a film by Vincent Moon & Priscilla Telmon, Petites Planètes

produced by Petites Planetes and Feever Films

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Documentary on a Ayahuasca making ritual (a 'feitio') at the legendary Ayahuasca church in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro, the first who explored the links between the Santo Daime doctrine and the Umbanda practices

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this film is volume 35 of
HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL
a poetic and cinematic research on spirituality and its music in Brazil

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