Indonesian Arts Festival Screenings

Friday, 26 February, 7:30pm
Saturday, 27 February, 6:00pm and 9:00pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $8 per screening. Please contact Saskia : 97578064 saskia.larasaty@yahoo.com or Agnes : 92351112 tropical_topaz@yahoo.com

Supported by The Substation Moving Images

At least three different Indonesian films will be screened followed by a talkback session where award-winning and critically acclaimed Indonesian filmmakers will share their experiences and insights into the film industry.

Film Screenings – Indonesian Arts Festival IV

Friday, 26 February, 7:30pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $8 per screening

Supported by The Substation Moving Images

Jermal (www.jermal.com) (88 mins) NC16
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmOkLH_vlA&feature=related
After his mother’s death, Jaya (12) is sent to his father, Johar, who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is shocked, never knowing he had a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Fully aware he can’t bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past, Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site.

Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work on the jermal, Jaya decides to take fate into his own hands. He gives up hope of being accepted and learns the skills and attitude needed to survive on the jermal.

Jaya increasingly becomes like the other boys: a tough, rough survivor, while Johar is forced to gradually face and accept his past. Eventually, both Johar and Jaya learn that they are bound by their past, united by the space in which they move, and connected by the inescapable truth.

In the beginning, they meet as strangers; in the end, they leave as father and son.

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Film Screenings – Indonesian Arts Festival IV

Saturday, 27 February, 6:00pm

The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $8 per screening
Supported by The Substation Moving Images

Short Film Compilation

CINtA (29 mins) PG
Trailer: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=76428&id=65925603415#/video/video.php?v=1148354072605
This is a love story in a world that still leaves a scar of an old wound back in the past. It’s a love story between an Indonesian Chinese named A Su, and Siti, a Muslim. On the deciding day, A Su asks Siti to marry him. It’s a rather simple question that demands a hard answer.

-Official Selection of Jakarta International Film Festival 2009
-Official Selection of Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival

Kabar Gembira (The Good News) (22 mins) PG
Nazarudin, 50 years old, is a hearse driver who is expecting his first child. He has one more delivery of mortal remains on his way home. He meets Safi’I, a father who apparently just ran out and left his son. The two of them are bound in a journey in which they share lives, the lives that in the end will change forever when Nazarudin dies suddenly and Safi’i becomes the one who is to remain after this journey.

Titik Nol, A Story from Aceh Land (12 mins) PG
Sukran, a 12 year old boy looks for his father around Banda Aceh after the death of his mother and finally arrives in Kota Sabang (Pulau Weh). He finds many things are different from what his mother led him to believe. Eventually Sukran finds himself.

Cinta di Kala Senja (Love at Dusk) (13 mins) PG
Love comes at unexpected times, and love doesn’t recognize age. Because love is eternal. But could love possibly be around us all the time? Bagio, 59, meets Juwita, 50, a woman who gives him the chance for love. But does love has to wait? Will love prevail?

This film talks about sincerity, love and waiting. About the existence of life with a happy ending. After all, life is a stage, and we are all actors.

Aspal (Asphalt) (4 mins) PG
Parjo had just reached Jakarta. Life in Jakarta strikes him hard and keeps his mind churning. Everything in front of him is unbelievable, including the wealthy-looking person next to him. Everything changes when people start to judge everyone that they meet. This film is a portrait of life in Jakarta.

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Film Screenings – Indonesian Arts Festival IV
Saturday, 27 February, 9:00pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets: $8 per screening
Supported by The Substation Moving Images

Selendang Rocker (87 mins) NC16
The Panky, a rock band which was losing its fame, led by Ipank, a bad-tempered vocalist, and consisting of Ozi, an unpunctual drummer, Eric, a moody guitarist and Joy, fat and liked to fart. One day, The Panky’s producer wanted to produce a collaborative album between Ipank and Munanada, an expert Melayu singer and considered as the King of Melayu music but who was undergoing a decline in his fame as well. They hoped that this collaboration would bring back their fame. Ipank rejected the idea because he was known to be anti-Melayu music.