Indonesian Cinema at Berlinale 2012
INDONESIAN CINEMA AT BERLINALE 2012
Dear Friends of Indonesian Cinema, Indonesia is proud to present the following Indonesian films to be screened at the Berlinale 2012 European Film Market.
95 Minutes, 35mm Color, 2012 | Babibuta film, Pallas Film | Directed by Edwin | IN COMPETITION
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, February 15 16:30 at Berlinale Palast (D)
Thursday, February 16 09:30 at Friedrichstadt-Palast (E)
Thursday, February 16 20:30 at Friedrichstadt-Palast (D)
Sunday, February 19 22:15 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele (D)
Abandoned in the zoo by her father when she was a little girl, Lana grew up surrounded by animals, boundaries and the sounds of a subdued wilderness. Raised by animal trainers, the zoo is the only world she knows. She learns to appreciate the graceful steps of the hippo, the elegance of the giraffe, the dignity of an elephant flipping its ears. As time passes, Lana forgets her father. One day, a handsome young man enters her world, a charismatic cowboy who knows some magic tricks and charms her. Lana falls in love and becomes his assistant in performing magic. At his side, she leaves the zoo for the very first time.
“Postcards From The Zoo“ is a story of longing. In a world that was never built to be a home, young Indonesian director Edwin presents an enchanting romance full of myths, magic and memories. A sensual adventure that is at once unsettling and life-affirming, arranged in beautiful and dreamlike images.
100 minutes, 35mm Color, 2011 | SET Film Production | directed by Kamila Andini | Section: GENERATION KPLUS
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, February 15 12:30 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 (E)
Thursday, February 16 15:30 at Filmtheater am Friedrichshain (E)
Friday, February 17 15:00 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 (E)
Pakis (12) lost her father when he went fishing in the sea. A mirror her father gave her is the only hope for Pakis to meet him again. With a Bajo ritual using mirror and water, she keeps on waiting to see her father’s reflection which never appears. Together with her best friend Lumo (12), Pakis keeps searching for answers from Wakatobi sea. As her mother, Tayung (32) struggles to reconcile conflicted feelings about her missing husband, and a researcher, Tudo (28) visiting their small fishing village.
Wakatobi is located in Southeast Celebes, Indonesia, a marine area which is the biggest coral triangle in the world, Wakatobi is the heart of a priceless marine richness. If in the land, we called tropical forest the lungs of the world, Wakatobi is the capital of the beauty and richness of the world marine. In Indonesian context, Wakatobi is a socio-culture entity that should be a model of maritime perspective which this nation should have.
75 minutes, digital color, 2012 | Srikandi Films & Celestefilm | Directed by the Children of Srikandi Collective; concept by Laura Coppen | Section: PANORAMA DOCUMENTARY
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, February 11 20:00 at CineStar 7 (E)
Sunday, February 12 23:00 at CineStar 7 (E)
Monday, February 13 15:30 at Colosseum 1 (E)
Saturday, February 18 14:30 at CineStar 7 (E)
A little girl wants to be a boy. A bench becomes a home and a witness to life. A house does not feel like home anymore. A veil makes you reflect on religion and sexuality. A verse of a poem is like a day in your life. A Love can be in between. A female stereotype can be deconstructed. A label can be changed. In Children of Srikandi, an omnibus film, participants collectively worked as crew members or actresses in each other’s film. We see that change is possible on all levels of the film: personal, political, and formal.
The moving individual stories are interwoven with the tale of Srikandi, a character still frequently used in the traditional Javanese shadow puppet theatre plays (wayang kulit). In the film, Srikandi is embodied and represented as an inverted mirror image, where the narrative of the wayang kulit moves from fiction to documentary and from the past into the present.
4 minutes, digital color, 2011 | The Fat Cocoon | Directed by Sammaria Simanjuntak | Section: PANORAMA SUPPORTING FILM
SCREENING SCHEDULE:
Saturday, February 11 20:00 CineStar 7 (E)
Sunday, February 12 23:00 CineStar 7 (E)
Monday, February 13 15:30 Colosseum 1 (E)
Saturday, February 18 14:30 CineStar 7 (E)
There are seven deadly kisses that girls hate. Learn them and make girls love you. But first, you have to practice on each other.
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For more information on these and other Indonesian films present at Berlinale, visit us at the Indonesian Cinema booth, Martin-Groupius-Bau Booth #01 email: contact.indonesiafilm@gmail.com
Disclaimer: I'm a volunteer helping the Indonesian delegation, copy-editing some of the promotional materials (as in shortening/lengthening the text we receive from the filmmakers/producers to fit our various promotional materials etc.) I'm not helping out in person in Berlin though unfortunately hehe ^^"
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