Position Among the Stars

Winner of top honours at both Sundance and the Amsterdam Documentary Festival this "encapsulates an amazing amount of what shapes the world today by observing the inter-generational struggles of one Indonesian family".

"Grandmother Rumidjah, a devout Christian woman from the countryside, is summoned to Jakarta by her sons to attend her granddaughter Tari’s high school graduation. The old woman is convinced that a university education for the girl is the family’s only hope of escaping the slums. The old woman’s values, already undermined by her sons’ largely pragmatic conversion to Islam, are constantly assailed by the bratty material girl; but Grandma’s prepared to pay a high price to see things done the right way." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011)

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