Join Us For A Fundraiser
To benefit
YRS Women's Health Program in Bali
We will be showing:
PEREMPUAN PUNYA CERITA (CHANTS OF LOTUS)
An Important Indonesian Film
By A Group Of Renowned Women Directors And Writers
About The Issues and Challenges of Women's Lives
Produced by Nia Dinata, Kalyana Shira Films (2007)
Thursday 14 May, 2009, 7:00 PM
Gateway Community Centre (GCC), Jalan Danau Batur, SANUR
(Just off the by-pass road between KFC and McD, opposite Canang Sari Restaurant)
Suggested donation Rp.150,000
There will be some yummy savory and sweet finger-foods and drinks, including donations from popular local restaurants
The film will be followed by an opportunity for discussion about issues raised in the film, and any questions about the YRS program
Where are the funds going?
Funds are going directly and in full to a local non-profit organization working for women's health in Bali. YRS, or Yayasan Rama Sesana, runs a health center located on the 4th floor of Bali's largest traditional market, Pasar Badung, next to the Kumbasari Art Market in central Denpasar. YRS offers clinical and educational services, covering women's health concerns including breast and cervical cancer, prenatal care, sexually transmitted infections, family planning, HIV/AIDS counseling and testing, domestic violence counseling, monthly discussions on health-related topics, peer educators and outreach work at all hours in the market area. YRS also accepts male clients for general health services and partner referrals for sexually transmitted infection treatment. But the vast majority of clients are the women vendors and other women who work in or visit the market area, mainly very low income women. Please view the website: www.yrsbali.org.
Thank you for your support!
ABOUT THE FILM:
PEREMPUAN PUNYA CERITA (WOMEN HAVE STORIES)
Official English Title: Chants of Lotus
Four short films directed by four different Indonesian women directors, produced by Nia Dinata, Kalyana Shira Films, 105 minutes
Indonesian/Javanese/Sundanese language with English and Indonesian subtitles.
This film contains some controversial material and has been partially censored. The uncensored version is only available from the filmmakers if they bring it directly themselves and are available for discussion. This was not possible for this showing. But we are very grateful to Nia Dinata for providing this version of the film to us complete with English subtitles, in response to our request to the Ford Foundation in Jakarta, who supported the making of the film. This version was also shown last year in Bali at the Balinale Film Festival in 2008. This film is clearly very appropriate to show for a fundraiser for the work of YRS, since they work with the whole range of women's health concerns here in Bali including many of the health concerns touched on in the film (e.g., HIV/AIDS, unsafe premarital sex, cancer, etc).
This film is not appropriate for children, there are sexual and violent scenes and adult themes and language.
English: http://www.kalyanashira.com/chantsoflotus/synopsis.php
In case you cannot access the website info, I'm pasting the text here:
"The film is an omnibus of four stories bearing different issues about women in Indonesia. Four women directors and two women writers and producers are appointed to carry on the task; the choice was made to create a bigger chance for women in filmmaking and to achieve a realistic and personal touch to the issue."
Chant From An Island
Directed by Fatimah Tobing Rony,
Story by Vivian Idris
Main Cast: Rieke Dyah Pitaloka, Rachel Maryam, Arswendi Nasution
Sumantri dedicates her life for the well being of mothers and newborns in one of the densely populated island within the Thousand Islands area, north of Jakarta. With a limited access to the outside world, her position is indispensable. She always puts her own needs aside, including her health. She is in denial facing the fact that she is suffering from a breast cancer. Sumantri has a special connection with Wulan, the island autistic girl, who is frequently mocked and harassed by the locals. Wulan cures Sumantri's longing for the child she can never have.
When Sumantri and her husband are getting ready to leave the island in pursue of her cancer treatment, a shameful tragedy befall Wulan. The girl is raped and fell pregnant. Due to Wulan's unfit condition, Sumantri is thinking of performing an abortion, the forbidden act and considered as a big sin by the local believe. On the other hand, she has to face her husband's plea to leave the island with a good reputation.
Chant From A Village
Directed by Nia Dinata,
Story by Melissa Karim
Main Cast: Shanty, Sarah Sechan, Ken Nala Amrita
Esi is a single mother who works as a janitor in a dangdut (Indonesian dance music that derives from Malay, Arabic and Indian folk music) club in Cibinong, a rural city just outside Jakarta. She is determined to provide her only daughter with education albeit her struggle to make ends meet. One fateful night she comes home to find her barely teenage girl, Maesaroh, is sexually harassed by Narto, Esi's living in boyfriend. A nasty fight erupted, shattered, scared, and bruised both mother and daughter make their escape.
Esi finds a shelter and protector in Cicih, the club's icon that is gutsy and witty at the same time. With Cicih's support, Esi is able to ignore Narto's threats and continue with her work and life. But one night Esi arrives from work only to find the unfortunate event repeats itself. She loses her daughter and also her best friend and mentor, Cicih to a local women trafficking syndicate.
Chant From A Tourist Town
Directed by Upi,
Story by Vivian Idris
Main Cast: Kirana Larasati, Fauzi Baadilla
Safina and her gang are high school students in Yogyakarta, the capital city of Central Java, also famous as a destination for tourists and higher learning in the country. Mushrooming Internet rentals all over the city to cater the students' need, creates a derivative market for teenagers with their raging hormone. The technology provides easy access to internet, to satisfy their curiosity about one issue that captivates them the most: SEX, a subject that up to this day is believed as taboo.
Unlike the other gang members who have been experimenting sex with their peers, Safina falls in love with a Jakarta based journalist who visits the city to do a research on his article about sex life of high school students. Jay Anwar the young journalist recognizes the values of this young girl for his project and personal interest. The feeling is mutual and reciprocal, sparks fly between them. Little that she knows, what the young journalist has in mind may not be close to the price she has sacrificed.
Chant From The Capital City
Directed by Lasja Fauzia,
Story by Melissa Karim
Main Cast: Susan Bachtiar, Winky Wiryawan, Ratna Riantiarno, Tarzan
Laksmi, a middle class woman of Chinese descent is shocked to found out that her husband has died of AIDS. Barely recovered from the grieve, she has to deal with the fact that she is infected by the same virus. She is devastated; her ever disapproving in-laws put the blame on her and demand the custody of their grandchild, the couple's only child Belinda. Laksmi struggles to keep Belinda even when all her possessions, including the house she lives in, are taken away from her. Suddenly they are fugitive of their own family. Together the mother and daughter move from one place to another in search for a shelter. Trying to survive without a job, Laksmi begins to see the reality that for the sake of her daughter and herself, she has to choose between her daughter and her own fight with HIV.
Thank you to our kind event sponsors/donors:
Ford Foundation and Kalyana Shira films for providing the film
GCC for providing the venue free of charge
Ibu Brenda and Bali Buddha for a generous donation to this fundraiser
Janet Molloy and Gemala Jewelry for donating selected items for sale
Amy C. Kusumaatmadja and "the little company"
Denise Abe and Three Monkeys Cafe / Monggo Chocolate
Lotta Lassesson and Cafe Smorgas
Cafe Batu Jimbar
Thank you to all of you who participated in Part I of the fundraiser on 21 April!
And thank you to any of you who can add any finger foods, desserts or drinks to share at this film event!
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Yayasan Rama Sesana (YRS)
4th Floor, Pasar Badung, Jl. Gajah Mada, Denpasar
Tel.(0361) 247363
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'The greatest event of our age is the meeting of cultures, meeting of civilizations, meeting of different points of view, making us understand that we should not adhere to any one kind of single faith, but respect diversity of belief. That is what we should attempt to do. The iron curtain, so to say, which divided one culture from another, has broken down. It is good that we recognize and emphasize the need of man to regard other people, their cultures, their beliefs etc. to be more or less on the same level as our own cultures and our own civilizations. It is not a sign of weakening faith; it is a sign of increasing maturity. If man is unable to look upon other people's cultures with sympathy and if he is not able to co-operate with them, then it only shows immaturity on the part of the human individual. We need co-operation, not conflict. It requires great courage in such difficult days as the present to speak of peace and co-operation. It is more easy to talk of enemies, of conflict and war. We should try to resist that temptation. Our attempt should always be to co-operate, to bring together people, to establish friendship and have some kind of a right world in which we can live together in happiness, harmony and friendship. Let us therefore realize that this increasing maturity should express itself in this capacity to understand what other points of view are'.
-Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, philosopher, President of India, his speech for the inauguration of the The Indian Institute of Advanced Study on 20 October 1965. http://www.iias.org/
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