Edge of Life
World Premiere.
Red Carpet.
Director
Runtime
110 Minutes
Country
Australia
Classification
Unclassified 15+
| Renowned Emmy Award-winning Australian artist/filmmaker Lynette Wallworth (Tender, AFF 2013) died and was revived when she was 11. This has given her a fascination with death, the last great frontier in human life. We all know our lives will end, and yet - in the Western world at least - we act as if death is a mirage, disappearing the closer we move towards it. Melbourne palliative care specialists, Drs Marg Ross and Justin Dwyer provide Wallworth with a perfect opportunity to explore ways that we might approach death with a sense of calmness, and yes, even joy, by treating terminally ill patients with psychedelic drugs, so that their relationship to death is fundamentally altered. Psilocybin is not new; it comes from ancient traditions. When the doctors journey to the Amazon to experience traditional medicines, they are confronted by the realisation that the world’s oldest cultures have something important to reveal, not just about medicine, but about death itself. |
Film Credits
Director
Lynette Wallworth
Year
2025
Country
Australia
Language
English, Spanish & Portuguese
Subtitles
English
Type
Documentary & Feature
Program Strand
AFF Investment Fund & World Documentary
Producer
Jo-anne McGowan
Writer
Lynette Wallworth & Chief Tashka Yawanawa
Cinematographer
Bentley Dean
Editor
Karen Johnson
Music
Antony Partos with a song by Kaline Yawanawa
Film Source
Stranger Than Fiction Films
Genre
First Nations, Health and Mindfulness, Psychological & Religious
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