Pulejajar

202070 minPG

Synopsis

A villager of Desa Jepitu named Rubiyanto conducted a water extraction project from Gua Pulejajar with a group of volunteers. Echa, a student of cultural anthropology involved herself in the project for her research purposes. The water reserve in Gua Pulejajar does not only give hope to Rubiyanto and the other villagers of Desa Jepitu, but also reignites spiritual relations between Echa and her late father, who was a former activist of Gua Pulejajar.

Credits

Director

Khusnul Khitam

Khusnul Khitam was born in Pekalongan on April 14, 1982. He studied communication science at Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta. He made his first short film in 2002 when he was still studying broadcasting at Akademi Komunikasi Indonesia (Akindo) Yogyakarta. Since 2007, he has been working as a director and scriptwriter. In 2010, one of his short films, Debt, received the Best Screenplay award at the Indonesian Film Festival and a special jury award for the short film Kotak Amal Ramadhan. His first feature-length documentary, Pulejajar, was presented at the Festival Film Dokumenter and the WaterDocs International film festival. His latest fiction film, Alang-alang (Sound from the Sea), premiered at Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2022.

Details

Original TitlePulejajar
Country of ProductionIndonesia
Spoken LanguagesIndonesian, Javanese
SubtitleBahasa Indonesia
ColorColor

Festival records

Edition | Program

2020Indonesia Feature-Length Competition
Competition Program Note
For 19 years, the Competition program has always been one of the main programs of Festival Film Dokumenter. Competition aims to exhibit films that capture actual issues around us and provide critical perspectives. The issues presented critically are certainly not independent of the forms and styles of creative documentary storytelling.
Festival Film Dokumenter Competition Program does not limit its attention to a single documentary theme, type, or shape. Therefore, the composition of this program is enriched by different perspectives, manners of storytelling, and approaches. For the second time, this year’s edition of FFD will celebrate four categories: International Feature-length Documentary, Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, Short Documentary, and Student Documentary.
309 films were received during the period of submission from May to August. We sincerely appreciate this enthusiasm, and as it has been our annual tradition, we will announce the winner of each of the categories at the Awarding Night and Closing Ceremony of Festival Film Dokumenter 2020.
— Rugun Sirait
Program Coordinator

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