Line Producer
Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.
Director
Salmiyah explores fragments of memory, perceptions of historical actors, history buffs, and audiences. The past, always leaves questions, it can never come back in its full form. People are competing with each other to create their own history. Salmiyah is an attempt to describe the complexity of history which is always full of bias and distance.
