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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Dutch director pursues Indonesian family at US fest AFP - Sunday, January 23 Send IM Story Print Dutch director pursues Indonesian family at US fest PARK CITY, Utah (AFP) - – Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich pursues his exploration of Indonesia's social and economic revolution, in the last part of a trilogy about a Jakarta family shown at the Sundance film fest. "Position among the Stars," released a decade after the first instalment, is in competition at the prestigious independent movie festival, which opened Thursday in the western US state of Utah. It follows the day-to-day travails of the Shamsuddin family, whom the Dutchman first introduced in "The eye of the day" in 2001 and took up again in "Shape of the moon," which won the jury prize at Sundance in 2005. Retel Helmrich, born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and an Indonesian mother, was invited into the Shamsuddin family home in 1998, when he was working on a film about the popular uprising which brought down Suharto. "I noticed that this family concentrated what was happening in the whole country. And I thought that this was a more a human story," he told AFP at the Sundance festival, which runs until January 30. So he decided to plunge into documenting the daily life of Ramidjah, a Christian grandmother living in a Jakarta slum with her two Muslim convert sons and her granddaughter Tari. A few years had passed since he filmed the Shamsuddins for "Shape of the moon," when he decided to go back. "One day I learned that Tari wanted to go to Jakarta to finish high school ...I thought, that's the moment," he said. This time he spent 14 months with the family, following the daily troubles of Tari's father Bakti and his wife, who keeps the household going by selling food she makes on the doorstep, and his welfare handout-blagging brother Dwi. But the beating heart of the movie remains Ramidjah, the matriarch who looks on, powerless at the repeated failures of her sons. The only hope for the family seems to be Tari. But at 17 years old, she is more interested in her new mobile phone than the fate of her family. "She really represents the potential of Indonesia at the moment. The country itself is very young. It's a young democracy, and people expected that. They wanted more democracy, get richer. "They want everything for Tari, they put a lot of pressure on her, actually. She just wants to be happy and with her friends. And they want her to succeed because she is the only who can take them out of their misery." The film also broaches the changing role of Islam in the world's biggest Muslim state. "Islam was not big issue during the (Suharto) dictatorship. Many missionaries from Arabian countries come to preach and their Islam is much stricter that the Indonesian islam," said the Dutchman. "In Indonesia, islam was always very moderate and very open. Now it's really changing. In the Shamsuddin family their are deep divisions, which lead to comical scenes between Ramidjah and her two sons -- who have converted to Islam with no great conviction but because their friends are Muslims -- especially when the grandmother takes her grandson to church. Exploding with energy, the film features Retel Helmrich's signature constantly moving camera work, and seems to balance between fascination and concern for a country in the midst of great change, hungry to develop. The final word of the film goes to Ramidjah who, after pawning her worldly goods to pay for Tari's schooling, returns to her Javan village, hoping finally to find her "place among the stars." 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