Alkisah Timur

202269 minPG

Synopsis

Pralaya is the inevitability of an active Javanese land, tarnishing the sanctity of the glorious Hindu-Buddhist capital in the Central part of Java. Meru’s search continued to the East. Where the evolution that mixes bodies of old civilization with Eastern locality takes place. New cosmopolitanism started with the bromocorah’s (free agent) dynasty. Through Palah (Panataran), we see the legitimacy of his great-grandsons appropriating the power of the Central Javanese dynasty, perpetuating the throne and cultural hegemony through the story of the man in the tkes hat, Panji.

Credits

Director

Otty Widasari

Otty Widasari (Balikpapan, 1973) is an artist, filmmaker and one of the founders of Forum Lenteng, a collective in Jakarta focusing on art, media, and sociocultural studies. Her artistic practice is nourished by her engagement with media activism, journalistic experiences dealing with social and historical actualities, and a lifelong study and fascination of film. She is the chief editor of Akumassa, a collaborative platform with local collectives/communities in Indonesia for conducting workshops and producing a variety of forms of communication media. She is also the Head of Selector for ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival.

Details

Country of ProductionIndonesia
Spoken LanguagesIndonesian
SubtitleBahasa Indonesia
ColorColor
Production HouseForum Lenteng

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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