Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
Generation 2018
IDN/NLD/AUS/QAT 2017
by: Kamila Andini
Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih, Ayu Laksmi
Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
Generation 2018
IDN/NLD/AUS/QAT 2017
by: Kamila Andini
Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih
Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
Generation 2018
IDN/NLD/AUS/QAT 2017
by: Kamila Andini
Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih
Feb 18, 2018Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih, Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena
The two actors at the Zoo Palast.
Generation – Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
Feb 18, 2018Kamila Andini
The director at the premiere.
Generation – Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
Feb 24, 2018Ida Ayu Wayan Arya Satyani, Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena, Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih
In the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Generation – Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar – The Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the Best Film
Feb 24, 2018Film team
In the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Generation – Sekala Niskala | The Seen and Unseen | Sichtbar und unsichtbar
‘I feel like I am the moon. So bright. But after a while, the brightness is fading away.’ · ‘I don’t see you fading. You shine brightly just like the full moon.’
Tantra and Tantri are inseparable. When they secretly steal eggs from the family’s sacrificial offering, Tantri always gets the whites and Tantra the yolks. One day, however, the yolk is missing, as is Tantra. Her brother gravely ill and in hospital, Tantri starts slipping into magical parallel worlds, approaching the inevitable farewell through costumes, body paint and dance. When at one point Tantri’s mother washes the paint from her face, it is as if tenderly to expel the illusion that things can remain as they are. In long dream sequences and against the background of the Balinese philosophy of sekala – the seen – and niskala – the unseen – Andini relates how one ten-year-old girl deals with parting and grief.
by
Kamila Andini
Indonesia / Netherlands / Australia / Qatar 2017
Indonesian
86’ · Colour
recommendation: 11 years and up
Ni Kadek Thaly Titi Kasih (Tantri)Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena (Tantra)Ayu Laksmi (Mother)I Ketut Rina (Father)Happy Salma (Nurse Ida)Gusti Ayu Raka (Gandma)
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1986, she studied sociology and media arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her films focus on socio-cultural topics, gender equality and environmental issues. Her directing debut The Mirror Never Lies, about the lives of Indonesian sea nomads, screened in the 2012 Berlinale Generation. Her second feature film Sekala Niskala won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury in 2018.
Filmography2011 The Mirror Never Lies; Generation 2015 Following Diana; short film 2016 Memoria; short film 2017 Sekala Niskala (The Seen and Unseen); Generation
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Treewater Productions
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