An Extraordinary Ordinary Family
This is one of several award-winning films at the Sundance Film Festival. A film about a simple Indonesian family.
March 16, 2011
A motorcycle sits atop a pushcart modified to move backwards along a railway track. The motorcycle carries two passengers. This is the ‘rail taxi’ a la Java that is one of the scenes in Position among the Stars by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The film with the original title, Stand van de Sterren was shown at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 and won the prize for Special World Cinema Jury Prize for Documentary.
As in his two previous films, The Ey
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