DARE TO BE EAST | KAUM – Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organised by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ+. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare to be east, dare to be equal, dare to be oneself!

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DARE TO BE EAST 

LUKA BETA RASA (2020) — AMANDA VALANI
→ Short Documentary / 35 min / english subtitles

The war that took place in Ambon, Indonesia (1999) was not yet fully over. Thousands of children under the age of 10-15 years were forced into conflict. Not a few children involved in the war eventually grew up without assistance. Growing up struggling with post-conflict trauma and seeking peace in their own way. Now they have become adults without having any education or training. Some of them rely on violence to earn money. 20 years after the Ambon conflict broke out, how did the former combatants who used to be involved survive and get out of extremism?

Amanda Valani is the Head of Signature Content of Narasi. She produces a range of edutainment and news content including documentary with various social issues and approach. Amanda received a Master of Arts in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths University of London, UK. She also has received a number of awards for her journalistic works over the years, including The London Human Rights Watch Film Festival for her own individual documentary that focused on gender issue in 2014.

BOATS (2016) — YANNICK KAFTAN
→ Short Documentary / 14 min / english subtitles

Wangi-Wangi Island, Wakatobi. Two boats. Fishermen from the Bajo village Mola follow their daily business. On this day they are stuck in the middle of the sea. The sun is blazing. The motor needs to be fixed. Who can help out? On another boat, two women on their way to the market delivering fish. BOATS was produced in 2016 as a part of the film exchange project 5 Islands/ 5 Villages funded and organized by the Goethe-Institute Jakarta.

Yannick Kaftan was born 1990 in Munich. Yannick studied film under the guidance of Prof. Pepe Danquart and Prof. Bernd Schoch at the HFBK University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In 2020 he finished his studies with the graduation film Douglas, a portrait of a Californian truck driver. Yannick lives and works in Hamburg.

KITORANG BASUDARA (2015) — NINNDI RARAS
→ Short Film / 30 min / english subtitles

A story of how hard it is for Papuan students to find living spaces because their dorms are fully occupied.

Ninndi Raras is a director and producer at Studio Aduhai, a production house based in Yogyakarta. Ninndi started making films when she joined the 56 Films community in Yogyakarta which was founded by the Yosep Anggi Noen and BW Purbanegara (film director). The first short film “Rahasia” was selected at the 2011 Indonesian Film Festival. His second short film “Gula-Gula Usia” was selected for the Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2014. This film won Best Short Film Chennai International Film Festival, India 2015. Her third film “Kitorang Basudara” was selected at the 2015 Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival and nominated for the best short film award at the 2019 2011 Indonesian Film Festival. His fourth film, “Signs Of The Season” was also selected in the 2017 Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival and won the best film at the 2018 Australia Indonesia Cinema Festival. Her latest film, Elinah, was the official selection for the 2019 Amsterdam International Film Festival and the 2019 Cambodia International Film Festival. Elinah was also nominated for the best short film award at the 2019 Singapore International Film Festival. Ninndi has also been a film judge at the Kompas Gramedia Film Festival, University of Indonesia Film Festival, and the Puskat Film Festival.

BENJAMIN'S WHISTLE (2000) — ARYO DANUSIRI
→ Short Film / 13 min / english subtitles

Benjamin loves the whistle sound and wannt be the market patron. Between admiration and hatred he deals with his own feeling by writing a letter to God. 

Aryo Danusiri assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Indonesia, is a video artist and anthropologist active in Indonesia. An affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, he holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with Critical Media Practice from Harvard. His artistic works have been exploring the circulations of new keywords, violence, and memory in reconfiguring the political and social landscape of post-authoritarian Indonesian 1998. Those works have premiered at various festivals, including Rotterdam, Amnesty Amsterdam, and Yamagata's “New Asia Current.” His first feature-length documentary, Playing Between Elephants, was awarded “Movies That Matters for Best Human Rights Film” at Jakarta International Film Festival 2007 and “Best Documentary” at Brussels Independent IFF.

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Funded by: #TakePart funding program by Fonds Darstellende Künste 

Partners: Queer Asia, European Solidarity Corps, In-Docs, Minikino, Jakarta Feminist