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Shape of the Moon

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Still from Leonard Retel Helmrich’s Shape of the Moon, courtesy of The Cinema Guild

The end of the Suharto regime ushered in an era of rapid sociopolitical upheaval in Indonesia. With Shape of the Moon, the second installment of the Sun, Moon, Stars trilogy, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich returns to the central Sjamsuddin family to intimately capture the changes taking place in their country, including the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. (Leonard Retel Helmrich, 2004, Indonesian with English subtitles, 92 minutes)

This film was selected by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, cofounding executive director of Cinema Tropical, a nonprofit that is the leading distributor of Latin America Cinema in the US and past programmer of the Flaherty Film Seminar.

Image caption: Still from Leonard Retel Helmrich’s Shape of the Moon, courtesy of The Cinema Guild

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