Films

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David Darmadi, Lidia Afrilita

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Diary of Cattle is the story of a 24-hour life cycle of a herd of cows that live and graze on a landfill site in indonesia.

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Jewel Maranan

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Five men enjoy an odd friendship in Vietnam’s Quảng Tri province, a site still bearing the scars of war.

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Sinae Ha

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God BLISS Our Home is Nawruz’ self-portrait documenting his struggles to survive in Manila, his passion to pursue his dreams and continue making films, and his efforts to position himself in the vast socioeconomic and political sphere of a fast-paced city. But it is also his personal letter to his mother, an attempt to make her understand his sexuality and changing priorities in life.

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Ucu Agustin

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Two visually impaired childhood friends, Andrea and Salsabila, who are now teenage girls, living with
their blindness in two different places—USA and Indonesia. At five years of age, Andrea’s family moved with her from Jakarta to Virginia, in the U.S. while Salsabila remained in Jakarta. Despite the distance, the friendship continues. With adulthood waiting around the corner, the two girls strive to be independent and seek strength in their childhood friendship as they prepare for adult life in two different worlds.

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Jewel Maranan

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Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap metal and coal. Eddie entertains himself to sleep with a broken TV before another night shift work at the port. Emelita prays over the funeral of her husband. Around them and their days, the global port is expanding to their living spaces. Anne’s midwife, Paning, brings the news. The film is a symphony of increasing everyday violence preceding the construction of today’s ideal city.

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Davy Chou, Daniel Mattes

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The White Building, an iconic structure home to 493 families in Phnom Penh, faces demolition. In the building’s final days, director Kavich Neang follows his own family and neighbors as they pack belongings, share memories and anxieties, and eventually move out before the building’s total destruction.

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Arun Bhattarai. Julianna Ugrin

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The contrasting dreams of two generations clash within the microcosm of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Bhutan, when Gyembo an ordinary teenager is chosen as the next guardian of their family monastery by his father.

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Amelia Hapsari

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Silenced for more than 50 years, survivors of a tragedy are now using music to tell their stories where arts take the centre stage in nation-building and foreign diplomacy.

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Andi F. Azzahra, Arfan Sabran

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A traditional fishing village lost their home and access to the sea due to the expending reclamation project on Makassar’s coastline. But now they have to survive in a city, without an ocean that was once both their field and backyard.

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Komtouch "Dew" Napattaloong

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Jai Sang Lod recounts how in 2001 he arrived in a displacement camp at the Thai border with his family, fleeing the fighting between the Burmese army and the Shan minority, and had to join the Shan State Army to do his compulsory military service. Nontawat Numbenchapol filmed him in this crucial moment of his existence, as this peaceful young man must accept, shortly after the death of his mother, to leave his young brothers and sisters behind and learn the military profession.

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Ho Chao-Ti, Liao Ching-Song

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Two indigenous Taiwanese girls on the cusp of adulthood are the focus of this moving documentary.