The Land Beneath the Fog
MovieTitle | Negeri di Bawah Kabut |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Dec 10, 2011 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Shalahuddin Siregar |
Production country | Indonesia |
Run time | 105 min. |
In the rhythm of a slow visual journey, "The Land Beneath the Fog" takes an intimate look on family relations in Genikan, a village on the slope of Merbabu Mountain. A quiet community faces change without understanding why it happens. As a community of farmers who rely on traditional Javanese calendar system to read the seasons, they become puzzled by the dramatic change of seasons. Describing a life on the brink of vanishing, this documentary offers deep insights into an invisible and disenfranchised society which is struggling hard underneath its veiled existence.