Diary of Cattle

Every morning, hundreds of cows are herded to the landfill site. They turn the area into their home; a place to eat, sleep, play, and mate. A few cows are lucky enough to return to the farm on the evening. A few others have to spend the night there because their owners live far away from the landfill site.

Lidia started her documentary career through a film community in Padang, West Sumatra. In 2009, she produced her documentary debut, Padang in Carnival. Her second short documentary, Diary of Cattle, won the 2018 IF/THEN Short Pitching, received financing for production and attended the editing lab at Docs by the Sea 2018. It was selected as the best documentary at Festival Film Dokumenter, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias, and student award at Cinematerre France in 2019. Her third short documentary, Waste on My Plate, was presented at Good Pitch Indonesia and developed at ASIADOC and American Film Showcase. In 2022, Lidia became one of the Indonesian documentary producers participating in The Doc Toolbox program organized by the European Film Market.

David Darmadi is a filmmaker from Sumatra. In 2018, his documentary project, Diary of Cattle, won the IF/THEN Prize at Docs By The Sea. In 2019, Diary of Cattle was selected for the World Premiere at Visions du Réel and was nominated for the short documentary at Festival Film Indonesia.