The Indonesian Club at Stanford (ICS) is planning an Indonesian Film Festival to be held later this month. The Festival will run from 6 pm to between 9:30 and 10:00 pm on Friday evening, 28 April, and from 6 pm to between 9:30 and 10:00 pm on Saturday evening, 29 April. The Festival will be held in the Assembly Room at the Bechtel International Center, 422 Lagunita Drive, Stanford University.
Festival highlights will include a Balinese dance performance, a video on Aceh, and three English-subtitled films:
"Gie" (2005), a docudrama about Soe Hok Gie, a well known Indonesian activist in the 1960s;
"Arisan" (2004) the first gay-themed Indonesian film to appear in the liberalized climate following the 1998 fall of Suharto (an arisan is a periodic social gathering ostensibly to help its members acquire capital); and
"Ungu (Violet)" (2005) a drama about a photographer and a supermodel.