Lola Amaria, born in Jakarta on July 30, 1977, began her career as an actress working with notable Indonesian directors and in various Asian co-productions. Her first feature film, BETINA (2006), won the NETPAC Award at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. Her second feature, SUNDAY MORNING IN VICTORIA PARK (2009), was nominated for Best Southeast Asian Film at the Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010, won the Silver Hanoman Award at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, and received nine nominations and an award for Best Editing at the Festival Film Indonesia, Indonesia's equivalent of the Oscars. Lola also directed and produced the Omnibus film SANUBARI JAKARTA (2012), nominated for the Maya Awards. She has continued to produce and direct widely acclaimed films nationwide, including one about power politics and sex in COUNTRY WITHOUT EARS (2014), the high rate of maternal mortality on Indonesia's eastern island in INERIE (2014), a story about disability in JINGGA (2016), the beauty of the Komodo archipelago highlighted in LABUAN HATI (2017), the story of Pancasila's five precepts in LIMA (2018) and his latest feature tells the story of Indonesian spider-woman Aries Susanti and her climbing career in the film 6.9 SECONDS (2019). EKSIL (2022) is her first documentary as a director.
Her film is a tribute to the hundreds of Indonesian students who fled the Soviet Union and China, forcing them into exile across European countries without status. Although they moved between the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany and Indonesia several decades ago, Lola Amaria gives them a voice as they recall the events that changed their destiny and strive to find a way to feel at home.
It's a life story built on trauma, the right to claim a national identity and a quest to define home through a set of heartbreaking memories preserved by a group of rejected intellectuals.
Lola Amaria explains: "For me, school was once an institution that managed to transmit fear to every generation sitting in its classrooms. I was one of them, 'blind' and 'handicapped'. I remember that in elementary school, once a year, every student had to watch the film 'Pengkhianatan G30S PKI', a propaganda film about how evil the Indonesian Communist Party was, because it had rebelled against the government and had to be eliminated to the root. All Indonesian students at the time experienced the same psychological 'attack': mass fear due to the violence displayed on screen. I wanted to combat these feelings by uncovering the truth. One of my interesting discoveries was the lives of political exiles abroad who didn't want to recognize the new Soeharto government. Coincidentally, in 2013, I had the opportunity to meet one of them, who encouraged me to research for two years. Armed with the results of this research, I decided to launch the EKSIL film project in 2015. Many facts opened my eyes and my mind. Through this documentary, I want to share with the public, including my generation, how to fight this legacy of fear by sharing what I discovered during my research and the process of making this film. Rare archival footage, animated re-enactments and first-hand accounts from exiles aim to illustrate the monument of violence that induced fears passed down through generations. Over the years of filming, the protagonists slowly aged and passed away, making this film the last attempt for their voices to fill in the missing part of a dark history significant to the course of national literature."
Dates and Opening Time
From September 13, 2024 to September 14, 2024
Booking
07 67 22 45 66
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Meeting at 8 p.m.
