Sing to the Dawn (movie)
Meraih Mimpi- Production country: Indonesia, Singapore
- Producer: Philip Mitchell
- Production companies: MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Kalyana Shira Films, Indika Pictures, Media Development Authority (MDA), Scorpio East Pictures, Infinite Frameworks
- Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
- Release date: 9/16/2009
- Run time: 93 min.
Movie description
Dawan is a young village girl who harbours the dream of getting out of her village in the lure of the bright lights in the big city, and to do so, has to fight customs and tradition that girls are meant to be bethroned away early at a young age to someone they loathe, and schools for them are an unnecessary part of life. In order to fulfill her dream, she has to go against the wishes of her dad, as well as irk her brother as she out-scores him in a local examination to clinch a scholarship. Also, their village is under threat of an unscrupulous landlord trying to bulldoze his way into profits by driving everyone out of his land.
