Indonesian film wins NETPAC award at Rotterdam

Indonesian film wins NETPAC award at Rotterdam

Indonesian

NEW DELHI: Indonesian drama What They Don‘t Talk About When They Talk About Love has won the NETPAC prize for Asia pacific films at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.

The award was instituted by the Network for Promotion of Asian Cinema and is presented in just a handful of film festivals around the world for Asia Pacific films.

The film, about the characters in a Jakarta school for the visually impaired, is the second feature by Mouly Surya who previously directed thriller Fiksi in 2008.

The film had previously received financial support from Rotterdam‘s Hubert Bals Fund. It had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and its European premiere in Rotterdam.