One of Southeast Asia’s most important contemporary filmmakers, Indonesian’s Kamila Andini is now at the fifth feature mark in just over a dozen years of filmmaking. A regular at the Berlinale and Toronto Intl. Film Festivals, she most recently premiering Before, Now & Then (Nana) at the Berlinale in 2022, her cinema puts a strong focus on women, youth, and marginalized communities in her native country. Her sophomore feature The Seen and Unseen (2017) landed in Toronto and would eventually win the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Berlinale Generation section. 2021’s Yuni landed the Platform Prize at the TIFF, while Before, Now & Then (Nana) won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance. In between projects, she landed the Netflix television gig of “Cigarette Girl.” Here is Everything We Know So Far … about Kamila Andini‘s Four Seasons in Java (aka Empat Musim Pertiwi).
Receiving early buzz and support from the likes of Hubert Bals Fund, and landing support in post from Venice Gap-Financing Market and Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, this would have moved into production in early 2025. The project has been in development since 2017.
Released from prison, a woman returns to her village trying to face the four seasons of her past. Pertiwi, a sexual assault survivor, takes a journey to redefine her own meaning of home, family and peace.
After working with Andani on “Cigarette Girl,” Putri Marino toplined this project. Arya Saloka and Christine Hakim are also onboard.
Produced by hubby Ifa Isfansyah, Cinematographer duties once again went to Batara Goempar and Film Editing to Jasmine Ng, while among the slew of co-producers we find filmmaker Anthony Chen.
This will premiere at a major film festival – common sense says a return to the Berlinale competition, however Cannes and/or Locarno could be in the cards.
