• Director(s)

    Will Lorimer

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Cast

    Bruce Parry

TV Show

Tribe With Bruce Parry

TRIBE WITH BRUCE PARRY is a documentary series; in this episode, Parry learns about the religious belief of Marapu practiced by a community living on the island of Sumba in southern Indonesia. …

TRIBE WITH BRUCE PARRY is a documentary series; in this episode, Parry learns about the religious belief of Marapu practiced by a community living on the island of Sumba in southern Indonesia.

  • Director(s)

    Will Lorimer

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Cast

    Bruce Parry

drug use
Classified Date:
27/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
drugs
In the context of experiencing the Waimaha way of life in order to understand it, Parry takes part in the tribe's ritualistic use of the psychoactive beverage ayahuasca and a compound made from coca leaves, and is shown undergoing their effects. He also recalls using similar substances in a previous documentary series which shared the same context.
additional issues
A buffalo is wrangled and a man is seen holding a bloody knife, implying that a ritual animal killing is about to take place. There are references to the historical consequences of colonialism on indigenous communities, including the significant loss of lives. A man is given an emetic and vomits copiously. There is also very mild bad language ('God', 'Jesus') and natural male nudity.
disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
27/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
disturbing images
In the context of experiencing the Mucabal way of life in order to understand it, Parry observes and takes part in their traditional way of killing animals for food and for rituals, which involves suffocation by human hand. There are also sequences featuring the Mucabal custom of sharpening teeth as symbols of beauty using a knife and a rock, which causes pain and bloodshed. Another custom is the circumcision of young boys, which is carried out with medical instruments; although no details of the procedure are shown, there is sight of the children in clear pain and distress.
additional issues
Infrequent strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'shit', 'God' and 'hell'. There are references to the deaths and displacement of peoples resulting from civil war. There are mild upsetting scenes centred on illness. There is natural female nudity, and infrequent very mild toilet humour.
disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
27/03/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
disturbing images
In a traditional funeral ritual to honour the deceased, a buffalo is restrained by several men as its throat is slashed several times, causing blood spurts that stain the ground. In another ritual, the throats of chickens are cut and their organs examined for signs from the spiritual world, in accordance with a religious belief. Men hunt a pig in a forest, but the animal escapes unharmed.
additional issues
Moderate violence, with infrequent bloody injury detail, is featured in fights between groups of men conducted according to spiritual beliefs, in which blows are delivered with thick plant stems and blunted spears are thrown from horseback. There are references to a religion's beliefs in the nature of death and the afterlife. Bad language includes uses of 'bloody' and 'hell'. People smoke tobacco products. There is natural male nudity.
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  • Classified date

    27/03/2025

  • Distributor

    Frank Films

  • Language

    English