Village of Lovers Film Screening + Discussion

With great excitement, you’re invited to the Cape Town Community Screening of The Village of Lovers, a feature documentary exploring the radical research community of Tamera in Portugal.

Most communities fail to remain integrated due to unresolved shadows around love, sex, money and power.  Tamera recognized the need to develop a holistic model that centres the regeneration of trust as the core goal. This film is an intimate exploration of their insights after 40 years of exploration, and a love letter to igniting a revolution of the heart.

TRAILER LINK: https://youtu.be/uAaXC38Uzdo?si=ZkKci6-OARmR1Jlb

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SYNOPSIS

In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the “free love” utopian movements of the 1960s’ and 70’s, and soon realised that the necessary social change had to run deeper than reactions to the dominant system. Tamera realized that at the core, regenerating trust - especially in the most intimate areas of human life - was the missing key to long-standing cultural and political change.

Now, over 40 years later, in an era of rampant climate chaos, the wake of a global

pandemic, and mounting political unrest - where humanity’s survival into the 22nd century becomes increasingly uncertain - Tamera’s research attempts to provide a regenerative model for a post-capitalist society, rooted into a blueprint for a trust-based life they call “The Sacred Matrix”.

Filmed over five years with unprecedented access, The Village of Lovers holistically reveals Tamera’s perspective for the first time at this critical moment of human destiny.

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DIRECTORS BIOS

Ian MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker & media activist based near Vancouver, Canada. His work has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic TV, CBC Documentary, The Globe and Mail, Adbusters, and film festivals around the world. Over that last 15+ years, Ian has used a variety of media (film, writing, photography, podcasting) to amplify the seedlings of emergent culture, from the desert of Burning Man to the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

John Wolfstone is a filmmaker, ritualist, wilderness rites-of-passage guide,

emergence facilitator and sacred clown focused on the work of cultural redemption. Over the past 10 years, he has wielded these tools in service to restorative justice, ancestral healing and peace building in conflict zones from

rural Guatemalan villages, to Middle Eastern refugee camps and inner cities in the U.S.

Julia Maryanska is a Polish-American filmmaker with a BA in International Affairs & French. She co-founded Re/Culture Media which produces films and mythic immersive theatrical events. She has worked on award winning films “My Reincarnation,” “Regarding Susan Sontag,” and Associate Directed the award winning feature doc, “The Village of Lovers,” currently touring internationally in film festivals. She is part of the

2023 CIRCLE Doc Women ACCELERATOR, where she is developing her second feature, “Intimate Revolutions.” She is also multi-lingual, a photographer, violinist, a master NLP practitioner and a mother to a young girl.

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After the screening we will open the space to dialogue and share vulnerably any feelings, thoughts, somatic shifts or spiritual inner movements around these themes- hopefully igniting ideas that may enrich our experience with community in our own lives.

NOTE:

• Arrival at 6:30pm, film begins promptly at 7pm. Please be early as you might struggle to get into the venue otherwise!

• There will be chairs available if you’d like one

• If you prefer being cosy on the carpets, PLEASE BRING blankets to lay on, cushions, backrests, anything to make yourself comfortable.

• Anything to drink in a CLOSED bottle to respect the studio (they usually have a no food policy).

• Dress comfy and cosy. Cuddles welcome!

• Popcorn will be available on pre-booking