12th(2010)
Nia DINATA
Cannes Film Festival 2006
Best Director, Best Original Script Writer, Best Film | Jakarta International Film Festival 2006
This is a movie about polygamy in modern Indonesia, the largest Moslem country in the world. It is a film about three women from three different social classes and ethnic backgrounds, conveying their passages in dealing with polygamy: sharing a husband¡¯s love and attention with several other women. The film reveals their troubles and internal conflicts. In their course of finding the answers to their problems, sometimes they meet with each other without even realizing that they share a similar story.
Indonesia, the largest country consisting of islands in Southeast Asia, has the 4th largest population in the world with 300 races and tribes, 88% of whom are Islamic. This film shares terrible news of the area where the earthquake and tidal waves occurred and shows characters who pass each other by with indifference at an obstetrician¡¯s office, a taxi, and a Chinese restaurant. Salma, Siti and Ming are different in terms of social status, race, religion, ethnicity, age and sexual preference, but they have the same concerns about the conflict caused by polygamy in Indonesia which allows up to four wives for one man. Nevertheless, it provides a rather interesting ending about love and shows the changing contemporary woman and man within the system in this country. That does not mean that this film supports monogamy. It seems that polygamy, where wives share a husband, is being replaced by another type of love which shares other things in wide variety of ways! (SIM Hye-kyong)
Cannes Film Festival 2006
Best Director, Best Original Script Writer, Best Film / Jakarta International Film Festival 2006
Synopsis
This is a movie about polygamy in modern Indonesia, the largest Moslem country in the world. It is a film about three women from three different social classes and ethnic backgrounds, conveying their passages in dealing with polygamy: sharing a husband¡¯s love and attention with several other women. The film reveals their troubles and internal conflicts. In their course of finding the answers to their problems, sometimes they meet with each other without even realizing that they share a similar story.
Program Note
Indonesia, the largest country consisting of islands in Southeast Asia, has the 4th largest population in the world with 300 races and tribes, 88% of whom are Islamic. This film shares terrible news of the area where the earthquake and tidal waves occurred and shows characters who pass each other by with indifference at an obstetrician¡¯s office, a taxi, and a Chinese restaurant. Salma, Siti and Ming are different in terms of social status, race, religion, ethnicity, age and sexual preference, but they have the same concerns about the conflict caused by polygamy in Indonesia which allows up to four wives for one man. Nevertheless, it provides a rather interesting ending about love and shows the changing contemporary woman and man within the system in this country. That does not mean that this film supports monogamy. It seems that polygamy, where wives share a husband, is being replaced by another type of love which shares other things in wide variety of ways! (SIM Hye-kyong)
Nia DINATANia DINATA
Nia DINATA was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1970. She graduated with a Mass Communications degree from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Nia then participated in special programs on film production at New York University. She has directed various TV programs, TV commercials and music videos including Mencari Pelangi. Ca Bau Kan is the first movie that won an award for Best Promising New Director and Best Art Director in the Asia Pacific Film Festival, Seoul, Korea in 2002. Arisan! received countless rave reviews around the world for its boldness in portraying gay characters in Indonesia. With Love for Share, Nia proves herself to be the leading Indonesian woman director who is bravely tackling sensitive issue such as polygamy in the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. In 2011 she produced Working Girls. DINATA also received special thanks for her participation in the documentary The Look of Silence. Her latest work is Kenapa Harus Bule (2018).