Exclusive Preview Screening: Position Among the Stars

Screenings

Date: February 10, 2012 7:00 PM

Followed by Q&A with Producer Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich

Position Among the Stars completes director Leonard Retel Helmrich's multi award-winning trilogy capturing complexities of religion, politics, and now economics, following the lives of one family in a Jakarta slum.

Helmrich follows Tari, the only educated child of the family, as she struggles with the impulses of becoming a teenager with their expectations of her as their hope for a better future.

Filmed over 12 years using Helmich's own ingenious technique dubbed "single-shot cinema", each of the three films - Eye of the Day, Shape of the Moon and Position Among the Stars - stands alone in its message and time, while providing both a microscopic look into the changing Indonesian life and into globalisation.

Position Among the Stars will be released in UK theatres on 17 February. 

 **Winner, Sundance World Cinema Special Jury prize – Best Documentary 2011**

**Winner, IDFA Award - Best Feature-Length Documentary 2010**

 Directed by: Leonard Retel Helmrich

Year: 2010

Length: 115' 

 

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Tags for this entry: Dogwoof, Frontline Club, globalisation, Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, Indonesia, Position Among the Stars, Single-shot cinema