Trailer Stand van de Sterren (Position among the Stars)

For 12 years, film maker Leonard Retel Helmrich followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. Just as in the previous two multiple award-winning parts THE EYE OF THE DAY and THE SHAPE OF THE MOON, in the third part POSITION AMONG THE STARS, the maker continues to show us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. He presents that both literally and metaphorically with his revolutionary camera work. The Indonesian Sjamsuddin family is the microcosm depicting most important issues of life in Indonesia: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap and the growing difference between poor and rich.

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