Puisi Tak Terkuburkan by Garin Nugroho
Puisi Tak Terkuburkan Puisi Tak Terkuburkan is a 2000 award winning Indonesian documentary/drama directed by Garin Nugroho in black and white. At the 2001 Singapore International Film Festival the film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Actor which went to the poet Ibrahim Kadir, who played himself. The film was also nominated at for the Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature Film, while Nugroho won the Silver Leopard Video Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. In 1965, Ibrahim Kadir is falsely arrested after being accused of being a communist or communist sympathizer. While imprisoned, he meets other inmates who have also been falsely imprisoned. Together, they sing the traditional poetic form didong, and attempt to band together. However, every day more prisoners are taken outside and executed. While alone, Kadir thinks of the crimes committed by the military that he has witnessed, including the killings of unarmed women and children,...