Position among the Stars

Position Among the Stars (Dutch: Stand van de Sterren) is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). The documentary is the continuation of Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon and follows again the family Sjamsuddin, existing of three generations in the slums of Jakarta Indonesia. Bakti quarrels with his wife. He uses ... More

Position Among the Stars (Dutch: Stand van de Sterren) is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). The documentary is the continuation of Eye of the Day and Shape of the Moon and follows again the family Sjamsuddin, existing of three generations in the slums of Jakarta Indonesia. Bakti quarrels with his wife. He uses holy water for his fighting fish, she takes revenge by cooking them. He is upset after his mother has taught his little nephew a Christian prayer, since the boy is raised as a moslim. Bakti's stepdaughter passes her final examination. With a mortgage on the home they finance her university study.

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