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Motherland Memories

202264 minPG
Awardee
Best Indonesia Feature-length Documentary
Festival Film Dokumenter
2022
Motherland Memories

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.

Credits

Director

    Moses Parlindungan Ompusunggu

    Moses is a prize-winning visual anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. He is the Executive Director of Atmakanta Center for Visual Ethnography, a Jakarta-based research firm. Previous awards include Best Indonesian Feature Documentary at Festival Film Dokumenter (2022) and Open Society Fellowships (2025).

Details

  • Original TitleTano Na Uli, Hagodanganki
  • Country of ProductionIndonesia
  • Spoken LanguagesIndonesian
  • SubtitleBahasa Indonesia
  • Production HouseProject Multatuli

Festival records

Edition | Program
  • 2022Indonesia Feature-Length Competition
  • StatusBest Indonesia Feature-length Documentary (2022)
  • Under the same program: Indonesia Feature-Length Competition