Denok & Gareng
Synopsis
In the constant stream of hoping, failing and making new plans, Denok and Gareng stay united in their passionate struggle to make it up the hill one day. In the modest house of Gareng’s mum, the young couple starts a small pig business, looking for the lucky streak to come over the family. But new challenges constantly arise, putting their cheerfulness and patience on trial. In an entirely observational approach “DENOK & GARENG” explores a strong loving relationship inside a strikingly vivid family that sticks together, fights back and laughs, about what others would call a Sisyphus fate.
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Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni
Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni was born and raised in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She studied Political Science at Gadjah Mada University and worked for several NGOs both local and international before she turned to film-making. Since 2003, she has organized the Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta and facilitates video workshops for adolescents and the local deaf community. She worked as an intern at Appalshop, Kentucky in 2007 and Women Make Movies, New York City in 2009. In 2008, she participated in the Cinema Capacity Building Program “Indonesia – Ten Years After Reformasi” proposed by the Goethe Institut Indonesien and The Jakarta Arts Council. She developed her first feature-length documentary Denok & Gareng (2012) in this program. In 2012, she participated in the IDFA Summer School. Her new documentary project Our Daily Bread is in pre-production.
