The third part of Leonard Retel Helmrich's trilogy on Indonesia, which follows the Christian-Islamic Sjamsuddin family. Helmrich uses the Single Shot Cinema technique, whose characteristic style - with long, uninterrupted shots and no interviews or voice-over - is closely related to cinema verité and direct cinema. The camera's broad, intuitive movements are distinctive for these films: it is a fly in the air rather than a fly on the wall, roving among the various family members, including resolute grandmother Rumidjah, her son Bakti and her granddaughter Tari. The occasionally funny and moving everyday ups and downs of the Sjamsuddin family serve Retel Helmrich as an indirect channel for a portrait of modern Indonesia, with all its contrasts between urban and rural, wealth and poverty, and religion and globalization.
Wybrane nagrody i festiwale/Selected festivals and awards: 2010 – MFF Amsterdam, Nagroda dla Najlepszego Długometrażowego Filmu Dokumentalnego oraz Nagroda dla Najlepszego Duńskiego Filmu Dokumentalnego/IDFA, the VPRO Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary and the Dioraphte Award for Dutch Documentary