Motherland Memories
Feature-length Competition
Synopsis
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.
Schedule
1st Screening
16 November 2022, 19:00 GMT+7
2nd Screening
19 November 2022, 15:00 GMT+7
Credits
Moses Parlindungan Ompusunggu
Moses is an Indonesian documentarian and multimedia journalist who likes to explore experimental approaches in nonfiction filmmaking. As a Chevening Scholar, he graduated with an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film from University College London in 2020. Since 2018, he has been involved in digital investigation works, delving into the world of online propaganda in Indonesia. His feature documentary debut, Tano Na Uli, Hagodanganki (Motherland Memories), was awarded the Best Indonesian Feature-Length Documentary in Festival Film Dokumenter 2022. In early 2022, Moses founded Atmakanta Studio, a documentary production house based in Indonesia.
