EKSIL (‘The Exiles’) Film Screening and Discussion with the Director/ Producer

ROAD TO INDONESIA - WESTERN AUSTRALIA FILM FESTIVAL (IWAFF)
In Commemoration of 75 Years of Indonesia-Australia Diplomatic Relations

EKSIL (‘The Exiles’) 
Film Screening and Discussion with the Director/ Producer

Winner of the Best Documentary Feature Film (2023 Indonesian Film Festival) and Best Film (Indonesian Screen Awards section, 17th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival) awards 

During the 1965 mass killings and political transition to New Order rule and the suppression of the Indonesian Communist Party, the new government banned hundreds of Indonesian scholars in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China from returning to their homeland, forcing them into exile across European countries without status. Shifting between the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, and Indonesia, the documentary Eksil (‘The Exiles’) follows 10 Indonesians whose lives were uprooted decades ago, as they recall the fate-changing events and strive to find the closest way to feel at home. It's a story of life built over trauma, the right to reclaim national identity, and a quest to define home through a collective of heartbreaking memories preserved by a group of cast-out intellectuals.

Introduced by director and producer, Lola Amaria, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Lola Amaria, Dr Vannessa Hearman, a leading expert on the 1965-66 mass violence and Indonesian exiles, and Dr Antonio Traverso, filmmaker and screen studies scholar.

Program:

16:30-16:45 Light refreshments

16.45 -16.50 Remarks by the Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in Perth

16.50-16.55 Remarks by Head, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin U

16:55-17:00 Remarks by Director/ Producer

17:00-19:00 Film screening

19:00-19:45 Panel discussion with Lola Amaria, director/ producer of Eksil, Dr Vannessa Hearman, a leading expert on the 1965-66 mass violence and Indonesian exiles, and Dr Antonio Traverso, film maker and screen studies scholar

Important information:

Wednesday 2 Oct 2024, 4:30 pm – 8 pm

Bankwest Lecture Theatre, Building 200A, Room 220, Curtin University, Bentley

Attendance is free, but registration is required 

RSVP by Friday 27 Sept 2024


Presented as part of the Road to Indonesia – Western Australia Film Festival, in partnership between the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Perth, and the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry and the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University.