Baby Girl

Rofie Nur Fauzie, Mohamad Sulaeman

Indonesia

14 minutes

2021

Synopsis

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer. She is very happy and respected within her new community but, once in a while, she steps back in her male clothes in order to fundraise for the local maternity hospital in memory of her mother.

More about Film

After her mother left, a transwoman named Cunenk always aspired to be a useful person like what her mother had said. Living off stage to stage, she garnered a lot of fans and followers on social media. We follow her raising funds to be donated to maternity hospitals, just as her mother had wished her.

PROGRAMS PARTICIPATED

Indonesia Distanced Stories 2020

Achievement

Special Screening

KAUM Festival, Berlin

2021

Official Selection - Guest Programmes

Minikino Film Week 7

2021

Official Selection - Guest Programmes

Aesthetica Short Film Festival

2021

Official Selection - 100% Local Flavours: Gender

100% Manusia Film Festival

Filmmakers

Rofie Nur Fauzie

Director

Rofie is a documentary film director who focuses on humanitarian issues. He graduated from the Institute of Indonesian Arts and Culture (ISBI), Bandung, in 2019. Being involved in the film industry since 2015, he started to love documentary films, especially biographical documentaries with human values. He has produced a number of films, including ASIH (documentary, 2017), Anak Pisang (documentary, 2017), Jatukrami (docudrama, 2018), 50:50 (documentary, 2019), and Baby Girl (2021). His film 50:50 won the Silver Award from the Vidsee Juree Awards 2020. He has also received award nominations from Indonesian Film Festival and Maya Cup.

Mohamad Sulaeman

Director

Sulaeman started his career in the arts as a theater director at his school. He directed Jayaparna and Layonsari performance, which received an award as The Best Show of National Student Theatre Festival in 2014. He then attended film school at the Institute of Indonesian Arts and Culture (ISBI), Bandung. Sulaeman has participated in various filmmaking and workshops. His short fictional film entitled Satu Denyut Lepas received mentoring facilities from Angga Dwimas Sasongko. Recently he has just completed a short documentary film about a transgender woman, Baby Girl, in collaboration with In-Docs, Scottish Documentary Institute, and British Council.

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