In Vivo Films (France), Kawan Kawan (Indonesia)
Drama
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With the support of:
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â–¸ Read Sea Fund
â–¸ Talents Tokyo Grant
â–¸ Asia Pacific Screen Academy
Watch it Burn | Directed by Makbul Mubarak
In a remote Indonesian mining town, ALMA (35), a devoted wife, is trying to raise her son following the arrest of her husband. Disappointed by the arrest, however, one night, her son sets a mining excavator on fire, kicking off a violent chain of events.
Makbul Mubarak (born 1990) is an Indonesian film director and screenwriter. Before embarking into filmmaking, he was a film critic and a co-founder of the Indonesian film collective CinemaPoetica. He made five short films before debuting in feature fiction with "Autobiography" (produced by the Jakarta-based company KawanKawan Media), which premiered at Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti Competition) in 2022 where it received the FIPRESCI Jury Prize. The film went on to be screened in numerous festivals including Toronto, Busan, Stockholm, Marrakech, BFI London, New Directors/New Films and many others, receiving 24 awards worldwide.
He is currently developing his second feature film "Watch it Burn".