71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Mbah Jhiwo / Ancient Soul

Alvaro Gurrea
Spain      108 m.
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Yono, or Mbah Jhiwo (Ancient Soul), is one of the miners who carry large sulphur rocks up the side of the Kawa Ijen crater every day. One morning, his wife unexpectedly leaves the family home, changing a routine where time had seemed to stop. Since then, trapped like Sisyphus in an eternal task and guided by his faith in getting her back, Yono will confront similar events which will transform their aspect as his beliefs change from animism, to Islam and to capitalism. An ethno-fictional film which explores otherness and questions the myth of progress in the neo-colonial reality of the islands of the South Seas.

Director
Alvaro Gurrea
Screenplay
Alvaro Gurrea
Production
My Deer Films (Spain)
Rocío Mesa
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Alvaro Gurrea
Edition
Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Music
Senyawa Shabara
Cast
Yono Aris Munandar
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
108 m.
Country
Spain
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