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Directed by: Monty Wates
Country:
United Kingdom
Runtime: 1hr 17min
Year: 2018
Last Screened:
Wed 14th Nov 2018
Over 2 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
Can magic mushrooms cure depression? Monty Wates film follows three of the volunteers and their families, and the ambitious staff running the trial, who are hoping this controversial treatment will have the power to transform millions of lives.
With deeply moving footage of the “trips” the patients go on, this intimate film is an absorbing portrait of the human cost of depression, and the inspirational people trying to discover a possible alternative to conventional treatments through groundbreaking psychedelic research.