After Multatuli Left

2020118 minPG

Synopsis

In 1860, Max Havelaar was written by the famous Dutch writer. Multatuli was first published “The book that killed colonialism”. In one and a half century after it was written, many scholars reflected on whether the book is a made-up story or a collection of facts. However, no one seems to have ever asked the question: what happened to the oppressed people of Lebak, which Multatuli stood up for? The documentary film After Multatuli Left tries to find out what has or has not changed since then by following the trail of Arjan Onderdenwijngaard’s video footage in 1987.

Credits

Director

Yogi D. Sumule

After graduating from IT in 1997, Yogi was inspired to make films, both fiction and documentary about minorities in Indonesian society and culture. He then moved to Sydney, Australia, to learn about filmmaking at KvB College and North Sydney Institute. After returning to Indonesia in 2012, he has worked for several films, music videos, commercials, and documentaries in various roles. The film Setelah Multatuli Pergi (After Multatuli Left) is his first feature-length documentary as a director.

Details

Country of ProductionIndonesia
Spoken LanguagesIndonesian
SubtitleBahasa Indonesia
ColorColor
Production HouseHistoria

Festival records

Edition | Program

2022Indonesia Feature-Length Competition
Competition Program Note
Celebrating the 21st year of the competition program, Festival Film Dokumenter received a wide array of vibrant documentary films from around Indonesia and all over the world. This program consistently strives to show documentary films that are reflective and intervene the social reality through creative ways of storytelling.
In this year of 2022, we have received 400 films that are selected by a committee of fellows from within and also good supporters of FFD from over the years. Luckily, the numbers and quality of films has been growing over the past four years of it’s being divided in four categories. The four categories in competition are International Feature-length Documentary, Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, Short Documentary, and Student Documentary.
We selected 3 student documentary films, 8 short documentary films, 3 Indonesian feature-length documentary films, and 8 of international feature-length documentary films to be screened during the six-day festival. From each category, the team of final juries will award one winner that will be announced at the closing night of the festival. The competition program honors the emergence of documentaries with perspectives, storytelling styles, and colorful approaches every year, and hence we look forward to having more in the upcoming future.

— Rugun Sirait & Riskya Duavania
Program Coordinator

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