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Position Among the Stars (16+)

Netherlands, Indonesia, 2010, colour, 111 min.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
This final installment of the trilogy follows the award-winning documentaries The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon, as filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich concludes his in-depth portrait of Indonesia seen through the eyes of one family living in the slums of Jakarta. Grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman, weathers a changing society and the influence of globalization reflected in the lives of her juvenile granddaughter, Tari, and her sons, Bakti and Dwi, who are Muslims. Modern-day Indonesia is entrenched in a tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam, young and old, rich and poor, and beset by encroaching globalization that threatens the simple life that Rumidjah knows so well.

AWARDS

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2010: Best Dutch Documentary, VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary; Sundance Film Festival; 2011: World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film; Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011: Best Documentary; Sarasota Film Festival 2011: Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize; Durban International Film Festival 2011: Best documentary; Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2011: Special Jury Mention; FiZagrebDox 2011: Best Documentary; Alba International Film Festival 2011: Best Feature documentary.

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch-Indonesian filmmaker whose trilogy about has the Indonesia, The Eye of the Day, Shape of the Moon, and Position Among the Stars, won many international prizes. His theoretical and practical film technique, single shot cinema, which involves long takes with a constantly moving camera is based on the film theories of André Bazin. He also invented a camera mount, Comodo Orbit, that allows extraordinary stability and maneuverability.

FILMOGRAPHY

“The Phoenix Mystery”, 1990; “Moving objects”, 1991; “The Eye of the Day”, 2001; “Flight From Heaven”, 2003; “Shape of the Moon”, 2004; “Promised Paradise”, 2006; « Position among the Stars», 2010, “Hollandse Nieuwe”(Raw Herring), 2013.
Netherlands, Indonesia, 2010, colour, 111 min.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
This final installment of the trilogy follows the award-winning documentaries The Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon, as filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich concludes his in-depth portrait of Indonesia seen through the eyes of one family living in the slums of Jakarta. Grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman, weathers a changing society and the influence of globalization reflected in the lives of her juvenile granddaughter, Tari, and her sons, Bakti and Dwi, who are Muslims. Modern-day Indonesia is entrenched in a tug-of-war between Christianity and Islam, young and old, rich and poor, and beset by encroaching globalization that threatens the simple life that Rumidjah knows so well.

AWARDS

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2010: Best Dutch Documentary, VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary; Sundance Film Festival; 2011: World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film; Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011: Best Documentary; Sarasota Film Festival 2011: Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize; Durban International Film Festival 2011: Best documentary; Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2011: Special Jury Mention; FiZagrebDox 2011: Best Documentary; Alba International Film Festival 2011: Best Feature documentary.