JAKARTA DISORDER

A film by Ascan Breuer
Documentary  |  87 min  |  AUT, CHE  |  2013

SYNOPSIS

It is only the second time that Indonesians can vote for their own president. Two charismatic women, however, are not satisfied with mere elections. Grandma Dela, who lives in a slum of the tropical megacity, and the intellectual Wardah Hafidz are setting out to collect 1.5 million signatures of the poorest, who are constantly threatened by the local arbitrary justice and the desires of the global capital. Can the power of a small elite really be overthrown by the power of many, or is “real democracy“ just an ideal?

With this political road-documentary the director portrays social changes and improvements in his mother's old homeland.

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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Eine-Welt-Filmpreis NRW 2015
Eine-Welt-Filmpreis NRW 2015

Int. Festival for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality 2014, Jakarta
Award of Merit

Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan – Int. Doc. Film Festival on Human Rights Bishkek 2014
Best Film

FESTIVALS

Anthropological Film Festival Jerusalem 2015
International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife 2015
TIEFF Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival 2015
RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015
EFFA Environmental Film Festival Tirana 2015
EthnoFilmFest München 2014
Move it! Film Festival Dresden 2014
Bir Duino (One World) Kyrgyzstan – Int. Doc. Film Festival on Human Rights Bishkek 2014
CineMigrante – Int. Film Festival Buenos Aires 2014
Int. Festival for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality Jakarta 2014
28. Pärnu Int. Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival 2014
This Human World – International Human Rights Film Festival Vienna 2013
Watch Docs Int. Human Doc Film Festival Warsaw 2013
International Exile Film Festival Goetheburg 2013
Diagonale Graz 2013

QUOTES

»Director Ascan Breuer documents civil disobedience, by showing examples of slum residents in Jakarta. „Jakarta Disorder“ premiered at the Diagonale in Graz and portrays tough but nonviolent people, who take their stand to prevent their homes from being removed in favor of skyscrapers and apartment buildings. « – ORF

»The slum has to go, we are building residential estates! In an intimate portrait, Ascan  Breuer follows the story of two female underdogs that shows how Indonesia's civil courage grows.« – KLEINE ZEITUNG

»For eight years, Breuer has collected roughly 100 hours of footage. A complexity that shows. The vision of Jakarta as a modern metropolis and the plans to remove numerous slums to build a clean city for the upper and middle class. Millions of poor people have to go. A precise documentary about political organization within the slums of Jakarta and the fight against real estate developers. Visually intriguing.« – KULTUR-ONLINE

»The strenghth of this film is that it puts you right in the middle of the action. Where the affected people talk, instead of the experts.« – RAY FILMMAGAZIN

»Jakarta Disorder shows the impressive fight of David against Goliath...« – ZIB 24, ORF

»A colorful journey and a moving portrait of two female fighters, as current as it can be « – PASSAGES

»Intimate« – PROGRESS

INFO

RUNNING TIME – 87 minutes
ORIG. LANGUAGES –Indonesian
LOCATIONS – Indonesia
SUBTITLES – German, English
SCREENING FORMAT – DCP, HD CAM, BluRay,16:9
SOUND FORMAT – Dolby Digital 5.1
ASPECT RATIO – 2.39:1
PICTURES/SEC – 24

CREW

DIRECTOR
Ascan Breuer

CINEMATOGRAPHER & CO-DIRECTOR
Victor Jaschke

SOUND RECORDISTS
Victor Jaschke, Ascan Breuer

MUSIC COMPOSER
Roumen Dimitrov

EDITOR
Ascan Breuer

SOUND-MIXING
Roumen Dimitrov, Heinrich Mader

SOUND-EDITING
Konrad Glas, Sergey Martynyuk

PRODUCERS
Arash T. Riahi, Michael Seeber

DRAMATIC ADVISOR
Arash T. Riahi

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