Kasunyatan
Kaliopak Cultural Islamic Boarding School
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 24M
Director : Sarahdiva Rinaldy
Synopsis
Abdul Rohman is a student and one of the caretakers in the Kaliopak Cultural Islamic Boarding School. He has spent these last two years there. Process of finding true self, peace, and knowledge, he found in this place. Kaliopak Cultural Islamic Boarding School has become a ‘savannah’ of knowledge and art for him. This space has helped him in the process of channeling his idealism in his ideology of thought and views on life.
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