A boy and a girl, Carlo and Shila, meet each other on a bus one evening. Shila collects stories about scars and always yearns for the existence of a wound. This is a trip that Carlo will never forget. The scar is a concrete memory. A memory of the moment and the pain, but also a memory of what the pain accompanied. It might have accompanied eroticism.
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Bilal
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Blue Roof
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When I Backed Home, No Mother in Front of the Door
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Half Teaspoon
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As I Lay Dying
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Shaking the Gods
An excited crowd tugs and jokes at beautiful shrine being carried around. Don’t ask why, but look at this strange phenomenon.
Film details
- Country of production
- Indonesia
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
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