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.