SFU Indonesian Association: October 2011

Simon Fraser University Indonesian Association Presents

BOWLING NIGHT

Saturday, November 5, 2011

@ 4:30PM

Location: Revs Bowling Centre

5502 Lougheed Highway

(By Holdom Skytrain Station)

Early Bird $10; Regular $11

There are prizes to be won!

For RSVP and more information, contact:

Clinton: 778-986-8989

Matthew: 778-228-6511

Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=280653798623258

Hope to see you all there!

And, yes, we have another event happening the week after Bowling Night!

KJRI Vancouver Presents

SUARAKAN NASIONALISMEMU 2011!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

@ 12:00PM - 8:00PM

Location: Consulate General of Indonesia

1630 Alberni St, Vancouver, BC

This is a debate competition event that will be conducted in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian). The topics that will be presented are concentrated around important issues regarding Indonesia and its relationship with the world. This debate is open to every Indonesian student in Vancouver.

For more details and how to participate, contact:

Michelle: mich.susanto@gmail.com

Dharma: cdharma@sfu.ca

This event is FREE of charge!

Presented by Vancouver Consulate General of Indonesia

Supported by GISAU and SFUIA

Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195720623835991

It's time for another Vancouver International Film Festival!

This year's VIFF offers three Indonesian films for screening:

Belkibolan

[BELKI] (Feature)
Dragons and Tigers

(Indonesia, 2010, 87 mins, Digibeta)

North American Premiere

Directed By: Agung Sentausa,
Ifa Isfansyah,
Tumpal Tampubolon,
Rico Marpaung,
Anggun Priambodo,
Azhar Lubis,
Wisnu Surya Pratama,
Edwin,
Sidi Saleh

PRODS: Meiske Taurisia, Sidi Saleh, Titien Wattimena
SCR: Titien Wattimena

In a year of well-achieved omnibus projects, Belkibolang is one of the best. It showcases the talents of nine smart young directors, a couple of them already with indie features to their credit, most with previous experience making shorts, two making their debuts. (The only one with an existing international reputation is Edwin, well known to VIFF audiences. He here contributes the penultimate episode about a couple's risky sexual foreplay.) Writer Titien Wattimena's overarching concept is to sketch the various kinds of people (and their various predicaments) you might encounter in Jakarta on the night of New Year's Eve, but "realism" is only the film's starting point. The stories are playful, resonant and sometimes fantastical: they range from a wordless encounter in the rain to a taxi driver in a traffic jam trying to find a way to tell his wife that he wants a divorce, via a justified mugging and a pair of romantic teenagers. And, as they say, much more. (VIFF 2011)

The Mirror Never Lies

[MIRRO] (Feature)
Dragons and Tigers

(Indonesia, 2011, 100 mins, 35mm)

North American Premiere

Directed By: Kamila Andini

PRODS: Garin Nugroho, Nadine Chandrawinata, Wiwid Setya, Gita Fara
SCR: Dirmawan Hatta, Kamila Andini
CAM: Rachmad “Ipung” Syaiful
ED: Wawan I Wibowo
PROD DES: A. Tonny Trimarsanto
MUS: Thoersi Argeswara
CAST: Gita Novalista, Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza Rahadian, Eko, Zainal

Official Film Website
Trailer

Kamila Andini (she's the daughter of Indonesia's leading filmmaker Garin Nugroho) got to know the seafaring Bajo tribe when she went diving in the Wakatobi archipelago. Her engrossing debut feature draws on her knowledge of the region (above and below the waves), her encounters with local people (some of whom ended up acting in the film) and Bajo folklore (the belief that a ritual mirror can show a missing person who will return from the sea). Her story centres on Pakis, a 12-year-old girl whose father is lost at sea, and her difficult relationship with her mother Tayung, who keeps her face permanently masked in white lotion. Pakis has a friend and confidant in her young neighbour Lumo, and she comes to consider Tudo, a researcher from Jakarta, as a kind of surrogate father. Working with the great cinematographer Rachmad Syaiful (he shot the Joko Anwar movies we've screened in VIFF), Andini does without melodrama and smartly concentrates on the day-to-day life of characters. Along the way she illuminates the region's ecology and effectively argues that the Bajo way of life should be a model for Indonesia as a whole. And her film is stunningly beautiful. (Tony Rayns, VIFF 2011)

Nindy (Short)

plays in In Foreign Lands

plays with Alambamento

Cinema of Our Time

(Indonesia , USA, 2011, 18 mins, HDCAM)

Directed By: Corey Kupfer

PROD: Corey Kupfer
SCR: Corey Kupfer

In Borneo where the sex trade is ingrained, a teenaged girl sold off to the local pimp gets freed by an old whiskey trader, in this powerful story about kindness and hard lessons (VIFF 2011)

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I watched Mirror Never Lies and it's very beautiful. I recommend watching it guys, they will screen the movie on the 12th and for Nindy, the 12th and 13th. Unfortunately they will not be screening Belkibolang anymore. Go get your tickets for Mirror Never Lies and Nindy now! For more information check http://www.viff.org

SFU Indonesian Association

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Bowling Night + Debate

Monday, October 10, 2011

Vancouver International Film Festival 2011

Newly Elected 2011/2012 SFUIA Execs Team!