Indonesian auteur Kamila Andini is gearing up for what she calls “the hardest story I’ve ever created” with “Four Seasons in Java,” a magical realist drama that confronts the dark underbelly of progress and power in contemporary Indonesia.
The film, now in post-production and at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, follows Pertiwi, a woman who returns to her village after more than a decade in prison for killing a young man while defending herself from attempted rape. Her homecoming coincides with the arrival of electricity to the remote community, setting up what Andini describes as a collision between modernity and personal trauma that she sees “repeating in our daily life.”
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