• Yuni

    Directed by Kamila Andini
    Indonesia/Singapore/France/Australia | 95 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Yuni

    Directed by Kamila Andini
    Indonesia/Singapore/France/Australia | 95 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Yuni

    Directed by Kamila Andini
    Indonesia/Singapore/France/Australia | 95 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

  • Yuni

    Directed by Kamila Andini
    Indonesia/Singapore/France/Australia | 95 minutes | Awards Buzz – Best International Feature Film

In this poetic and effervescent coming-of-age tale, teenager Yuni is caught between forging her own path ahead and relenting to her village’s rigid expectations to accept one of many marriage proposals from men she barely knows.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize and Young Cineastes Award.

film synopsis

Bright, plucky and obsessed with the color purple, Yuni (newcomer Arawinda Kirana in a dazzling performance) is a teenager who dreams of graduating secondary school and attending university far from the confines of her village. Puncturing the candy-colored world she and her friends have built around themselves, Yuni is proposed to – twice – by men she barely knows. After she rejects both proposals, superstitions arise in the village: if she rejects a third proposal, she will never marry. Now caught between forging her own path ahead and relenting to the community’s rigid expectations imposed upon her, Yuni finds herself at a crucial crossroads. Renowned filmmaker Kamila Andini’s dreamy coming-of-age tale is partly inspired by the late Sapardi Djoko Damono’s poem The Rain in June which evokes rain falling in the wrong season, echoing Yuni’s experience growing up before her time. Poetic and effervescent, Yuni strikes with a quiet but lasting power.

film details

Director: Kamila Andini
Producers: Ifa Isfansyah
Screenwriter: Kamila Andini, Prima Rusdi
Cinematographers: Teoh Gay Hian
Editor: Lee Chatametikool
Music: Alexis Rault
Cast: Arawinda Kirana, Kevin Ardilova, Dimas Aditya, Marissa Anita, Asmara Abigail
Country: Indonesia/Singapore/France/Australia
Language: In Serang-Javanese (Indonesia) with English subtitles.
Year: 2021
Running Time: 95 minutes
Director Filmography: The Seen and the Unseen (2017), The Mirror Never Lies (2011)
Awards: Platform Prize, Toronto International Film Festival
Primary Company: Cercamon

Film Festival 2022