KYOTO INTERNATIONAL FILM AND ART FESTIVAL 2022

In the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.

This film follows Time Magazine’s 2004 “Hero of Asia” BUTET MANURUNG’s (Prisia Nasution) journey from anthropologist to educator to activist as she works with the indigenous Orang Rimba people who live upstream the Makekal river in the forest of Bukit Duabelas of Jambi, Sumatera, Indonesia.

Delisa, a six-year-old girl, lives with her mother, Salama, and her three sisters in a seaside village on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. She loves playing soccer with the boys, but unlike her sisters, she is not good at prayer and will not learn to pray unless she receives something. On the day of a prayer recitation test, a huge earthquake and tsunami hit the village, killing her mother, sisters and friends, and Delisa, who survived, loses her right leg. This film is about Delisa's reunion with her father, Usman, who returns from abroad, and pulls out the meaning of life in the memory of her mother. Based on the true story of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.