Position Among the Stars (0+)
the Netherlands, 2010, colour, 109 min.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
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
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film of Sundance Film Festival 2011; IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary.
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Leonard Retel Helmrich
was born in Tilburg, Netherlands. Graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 1986, where he made short fiction film DE DRENKELING/ THE DROWNING MAN. He made his debut with the feature film HET PHOENIX MYSTERIE/ THE PHOENIX MYSTERY in 1990, and his documentary MOVING OBJECTS (1991) has won several prizes at international film festivals. Through these years he has been giving lectures about his single-shot cinema theory all over the world. With his documentary DE STAND VAN DE ZON/ EYE OF THE DAY (2001) he became famous in the documentary film world and won many international awards. The film became the first part of the trilogy and was followed by STAND VAN DE MAAN/ SHAPE OF THE MOON (2004) and POSITION AMONG THE STARS.
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.
the Netherlands, 2010, colour, 109 min.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
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
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film of Sundance Film Festival 2011; IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary.