My Grandmother is A Bird

Country
UK, Indonesia
Production Year
2022
Running Time
25
Genre
Documentary
Age
13+
Family, Social | Political Repression

Those who don’t know the Sahara believe that there is only sand in the desert. But here there are kids who play and make movies, just like this: it tells the story of the last European colony in Africa, Western Sahara, and that of thousands of Saharawi refugees living in exileAlmost 60 years after the Indonesian government enforced Chinese-Indonesian to “Indonesianise” their Chinese names, 88-year-old Indriati is still haunted by the meaning of her past name in the form of a silver bird.

Location
Kineforum Taman Ismail Marzuki
Studio
ASRUL SANI
Date
28/10/2023
Time
16:00 - 17:41
Director
Andrea Suwito
Andrea Suwito is an independent documentary filmmaker from Indonesia. Andrea was a fellow of the Scottish Documentary Institute: Connecting Stories 2021 and Points North Fellowship 2023 at the Camden International Film Festival. She is currently an Erasmus+ scholar for the selective Doc Nomads program.