Bachtiar

A group of young filmmakers and the family members of Bachtiar Siagian conduct a search for the history of Left-wing cinema in Indonesia. From family archives, audio recordings that are still stored, meetings with various figures and searches for films that are considered part of the Left Movement. This film crosses time tracing political events and cultural discourse battles, in which Bachtiar was one of the main figures. The historical findings from the archives and interviews are reinterpreted in a cinematic perspective, which places the various events as a series of bitter artistic experiences as well as an optimism about Indonesian history from a cinematic perspective.