I Gde Mika

After over a decade in prison, little trace of filmmaker and member of the leading Communist cultural movement Bachtiar Siagian’s life and work could be found, but Hafiz Rancajale still searched. Alongside his colleagues, they revise his mis-slandered history.

She is a teacher. She is a mother to young artists, a mother to activists of social and cultural movements. Indonesia has a long and unresolved historical wound, starting from the events of 1965, the silence of democracy and human rights activists, and the spread of identity politics. In the midst of it all, DOLO, a female sculptor opens the wounds of history through her sculptures.

An essayistic film exploring the legacies of cinema in New Order Indonesia and what it means to be inheritors of its filmic language.