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we all pick at our scars — a strand of an assault case, told by mother to daughter, passed on like heirloom.
we all pick at our scars — a strand of an assault case, told by mother to daughter, passed on like heirloom.
Two 13-year-old children from broken homes with different social backgrounds explore a place they have never visited before in order to discover their own identities. However, when they find what they are looking for, both of them decide to go their separate ways.
A call comes from deep within a dream, recalling familial encounters with shadows in a photographic dark room. Haunting memories and ancestral ceremonies captured during the Netherlands' colonial rule of Indonesia come to light. As we see ways of life destroyed and farmers exploited to fuel the Dutch Empire, new layers of meaning and critical understandings of present-day power emerge.
Produced through a collaboration between Akumassa, a program within Jakarta-based film collective Forum Lenteng, and Pasirputih, an organization that grew out of a 2008 Akumassa workshop. Collectively shot in the North Lombok town of Bangsal, a small village that serves the gateway to the Gili Islands. The islands are a major tourism destination, an industry that has caused considerable environmental damage. The collective gaze of area residents captures the incoming boats that facilitate the area’s economies.
The passing of Lela's estranged mother forces her to travel to the village and attend the funeral service however danger arose as soon as she arrives.
This video was made for an exhibition project commemorating the political tragedy in Indonesia in September 1965. The exhibition was organized by Kedai Kebun Forum Yogyakarta. With the title "September Something. This 3 minute video capture was taken from a long duration which was full of tense situations. In this capture I deliberately took about the joy of children who are full of laughter, joy, hope and the future. This innocent little child named Ade Irma Suryani became a victim of cruelty and was shot dead by a barrage of stray bullets because her father, General AH Nasution, was still able to escape. This source of the film was taken from VCD G30S/PKI (30 September Movement/Indonesian Communist Party) directed by Arifin C. Noer. This more than 2 hour long film is known as a New Order political propaganda film.
In Once Upon A Time In Malang, bread is employed (representing "West") as the metaphor in offering the filmmaker's findings regarding the "cultural policy" in the colonial period of forbidding native servants to position the food they serve below their mouths lest their breath will pollute, poison the food.
Ziya tells the story of the discrimination she experienced through two egg characters that she brings to life in her world.
Through an encounter between modern technology and the rituals of the people in the central mountainous region of West Papua, Nikolas, Asep, and other youths transformed the local Papuan music Wisisi and Pesek into a popular electronic music offering with a rocking Aster shuffle. From self-distribution mode such as Bluetooth transfer, to YouTube algorithm recommendations, Wisisi is now a contemporary music that is not only loved in West Papua, but also by many in other parts of the world.
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Olive, a little girl, lives in a broken family. Both her parents are busy working. Olive misses love and attention. Until she did her own thing to get the attention of her parents until she received violence from her father.
Jaka Bhyasa together with the 'LIMA MANUSIA' silat group fought against Kuntilanak to avenge the murder of Jaka's wife and other pregnant women in their village.
Beno (11 years old) who has just returned from school waiting to be picked up, felt thirsty and intended to drink water from a bottle.
An elementary school student named Ismail believes that there is a power to a smile. One day, he meets a hot-blooded math teacher that is a skeptic of smiles.
Three Afghan girls share what their ideal day may look like.
A father reconnects with his long lost daughter, and wants to readopt her after no contact for years. Religious differences between the two of them complicates things.
Two men argues about presidential candidate choices.
Before fireworks light up the skies on New Year's Eve, an online taxi driver picks up a little passenger with an unexpected destination.