{"id":56391,"date":"2025-11-08T23:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/?p=56391"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:25:57","slug":"balane-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/film-review-en\/balane-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at Balane 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just like the title of this review, <em>BALANE<\/em> <em>3<\/em> (Ico Costa, 2025) invites us to experience Balane 3, a settlement in Inhambane, a town in southern Mozambique. Watching this film is like wandering through the town from dusk till dawn, emphasizing the sensory experience of a day spent among its people.<\/p>\n<p>Through his observational method, director Costa positions the audience as travelers who come to life, watching closely, yet often remain silent. There\u2019s no narrator to dictate nor interviews to inform; everything happens naturally as breath itself. The absence of a \u201cbig story\u201d or dramatic resolution for a protagonist somehow let us enjoy this film fully. Costa crafts fragments, conversations, and soft chuckles, allowing them to shape its story gently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44536 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Balane-3-Still-03-1.jpg\" alt=\"Balane 3 (2025)\" width=\"1799\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Balane-3-Still-03-1.jpg 1799w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Balane-3-Still-03-1-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Balane-3-Still-03-1-1199x720.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Balane-3-Still-03-1-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1799px) 100vw, 1799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through fragments of daily life\u2013a fisherman coming home from the sea, a roadside car wash, a butcher, schools, salons, markets, and night dances\u2013life unfolds before us, bound by resilience and human connection. A sentence, \u201cour survival stopped us from living,\u201d appears on the wall, illustrating that we don\u2019t really enjoy our life and the small things we see and experience just because we are too busy surviving. A calm and uninterrupted rhythm narrates this film, inviting us to pause and experience life in Balane 3 throughout the day. (FadliAwan) (Ed. Vanis\/Trans. Shafira Rahmasari)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Details <\/strong><br \/>\nBALANE 3<br \/>\nIco Costa | 98 min | 2025 | France, Portugal<br \/>\nIn Competition for <strong>International Feature-Length Documentary<\/strong><br \/>\nFestival Film Dokumenter 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like the title of this review, BALANE 3 (Ico Costa, 2025) invites us to experience Balane 3, a settlement in Inhambane, a town in southern Mozambique. Watching this film is like wandering through the town from dusk till dawn, emphasizing the sensory experience of a day spent among its people. Through his observational method, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":44535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"edition":[781],"class_list":["post-56391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-review-en","edition-ffd-2025-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56391"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=56391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}