Country: Indonesia
Year: 2012
Duration: 96'
Lana grows up in a zoo after her father abandons her there when she was a little girl. The zookeepers take care of her and all around her are animals, cages and subjugated nature. The unexpected arrival of a young and charming cowboy, an expert prestidigitator, changes everything. Lana falls in love with him, becomes his assistant and, for the first time ever, leaves the zoo. But her happiness is short-lived: during a performance, the illusionist disappears in a cloud of smoke, leaving Lana alone and lost. The girl ends up working in a red-light massage salon, in a world that is very different from the one she grew up in. The only thing for her to do is to leave it all behind and return to the only home she has ever known.
Biography
film director
. Edwin
Edwin (Surabaya, Indonesia) enrolled in 1999 at the Jakarta Art Institute to study directing but never completed his studies, preferring to gain experience as an independent filmmaker. He became known internationally for his short Kara, Daughter of a Tree (2005), the first Indonesian film to be screened at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at Cannes. He later directed films such as Trip to the Wound (2007); Hulahoop Soundings (2008), a tribute to the Coen brothers commissioned by the Rotterdam International Film Festival; the feature-length Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (2008), which won prizes at numerous international festivals; and the episode Roller Coaster from the group film Belkibolang (2010). His film Postcards from the Zoo competed at the latest Berlin Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A very Slow Breakfast (cm, 2002), Dajang Soembi (The Woman Who Was Married to a Dog, cm, 2004), Kara, Daughter of a Tree (cm, 2005), Songs from Our Sunny Homeland (doc., 2006), A Very Boring Conversation (cm, 2006), Trip to the Wound (cm, 2007), Hulahoop Soundings (cm, 2008), Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (2008), Belkibolang (ep. Roller Coaster, cm, 2010), Kebun Binatang (Postcards from the Zoo, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“The world ‘postcards’ comes from the way I myself perceive cinema. I enjoy fragmentary films that are able to break free from their own structures, films that allow the viewer to exit the narrative, invoking or triggering memories of personal experience. To me, that’s a little bit like sending and receiving postcards.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Edwin
sceneggiatura/screenplay Edwin, Daud Sumolang, Titien Wattimena fotografia/cinematography Sidi Saleh
montaggio/film editing Herman Kumala Panca
scenografia/production design Eros Eflin
costumi/costume design Aulia Yogyanti
musica/music Dave Lumenta
suono/sound Wahyu Tri Purnomo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Ladya Cheryl (Lana), Nicholas Saputra (il mago/magician), Adjie Nur Ahmad, Larysa Aurelya Raditya, Dave Lumenta, Abizars, Iwan Gunawan, Nitta Nazyra C. Noer, Heidy Tristiana Triswan, Budi Hidayat, Maman Ahadiat Safarman Effendi, Yasfi Hakim, Budi Purbadi produttore/producer Meiske Taurisia
produzione/production babitutafilm
coproduttori/coproducers Lorna Tee, Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner coproduzione/coproduction Pallas Film
vendita all’estero/world sales The Match Factory
sceneggiatura/screenplay Edwin, Daud Sumolang, Titien Wattimena fotografia/cinematography Sidi Saleh
montaggio/film editing Herman Kumala Panca
scenografia/production design Eros Eflin
costumi/costume design Aulia Yogyanti
musica/music Dave Lumenta
suono/sound Wahyu Tri Purnomo
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Ladya Cheryl (Lana), Nicholas Saputra (il mago/magician), Adjie Nur Ahmad, Larysa Aurelya Raditya, Dave Lumenta, Abizars, Iwan Gunawan, Nitta Nazyra C. Noer, Heidy Tristiana Triswan, Budi Hidayat, Maman Ahadiat Safarman Effendi, Yasfi Hakim, Budi Purbadi produttore/producer Meiske Taurisia
produzione/production babitutafilm
coproduttori/coproducers Lorna Tee, Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner coproduzione/coproduction Pallas Film
vendita all’estero/world sales The Match Factory
