Gestures of Care
World Premiere
65 minutes | 2025 | Indonesia, Australia | Documentary | 🔊 Indonesian & Dayak Ngaju | 13+
Synopsis
Sinopsis
The ecological destruction in Central Kalimantan was once again brought to light by El Niño 2023. This film chronicles the indigenous Dayak people’s fight for survival in the face of devastation. First, Juni has been a part of a government program called a community-based fire brigade for a few years now. The program’s stated goal is to change the Indigenous people’s perception of themselves from being fire starters to fire mitigators.
Meanwhile, Ipit and her family are determined to grow padi on their historic plot, which the government converted from peatland into a large food estate.
Schedule
Jadwal
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 | 16:00 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Aryo Danusiri
Aryo Danusiri, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Indonesia, works on the keywords politics, technology, and ethics in multiple assemblages: religion, urbanity, and climate crisis. An affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Danusiri holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with Critical Media Practice from Harvard. Danusiri teaches courses on anthropological theories, technology and the public, and signs and politics, among others. Various international institutions have been supporting his projects, such as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC, USA) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA), or the Fulbright. He has been a co-principal investigator on "Fire Play: Understanding and Documenting Indigenous Fire Governance in Indonesia," funded by DFAT Australia.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | Fire Play Production, PUSKA Antrop Production, and Ragam Production |
| Producer | Aryo Danusiri, Sofyan Ansori, Sri Paramita Utami |
| Director | Aryo Danusiri |
| Scriptwriter | Aryo Danusiri |
| Cinematographer | Rizky Sulfi Anwar & SOUND Prima Setiawan |
| Production Designer | Aryo Danusir, Sofyan Ansori |
| Editor | Angen S. & Muhammad Iqbal |
| Main Cast | Juni R, Sri Rahayu |
| Director’s filmography |
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| Notable Achievement | – |
| Contact | [email protected] |
