Narrative / Indonesia
Director: Adriyanto Dewo
20 mins
Synopsis
Ever since her mother passed away, Laura has been in charge of running her business, a backpackers lodge in Kota Kinabalu. She gets help from Shahid, her boyfriend of sorts, who owns a boat that he rents to tourists. One day, Albert, a frequent guest of Laura’s, once again asks her to take him to the uninhabited Sulug Island. Albert is not exactly a communicative person; his prior travels to Sulug Island have always been spent in silence. Even when he gets to the island, he never does what tourists usually do – snorkeling, swimming, etc. Instead, he only watches the sea from the beach, in silence. The time, Laura musters up the courage to ask why he keeps coming back to the island, seemingly waiting for someone on that seashore.
Director
Adriyanto Dewo was born in 1983 and graduated from the Faculty Film and Television, Jakarta Institute of Arts with Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film Directing. In 2011, he received an award for Best Director at the 6th Indonesian Film Festival in Melbourne for his short film “Song of the Silent Heroes”. His latest short film “Waiting For Colors” won Best Short Film at the Hanoi International Film Festival 2014. His first feature film, “Tabula Rasa”, a family drama exploring the anthropology of food and how it interconnects different people and relationships, won him Best Director at the Indonesian Film Festival 2014.
