BEFORE, NOW & THEN

By Kamila ANDINI

SEMINCI - VALLADOLID INTL. FILM FEST. / FESTIVAL DE CINE DE VALLADOLID - as FEST

Historical - Completed 2022

For her new feature, Kamila Andini delivers a superb portrait of a woman battling the trauma of war, fighting to free herself from the patriarchal social dictates of her era.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2022
Competition Best Supporting Actress
Busan IFF 2022
A Window on Asian Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Historical, Drama
    • Countries
    • INDONESIA
    • Languages
    • INDONESIAN
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kamila ANDINI
    • Writer(s)
    • Adha IMRAN, Kamila ANDINI
    • Synopsis
    • Late 1960s. Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. But the past lives on in her dreams. Her new husband is wealthy, but her place in the home is menial, and he is unfaithful. Nana suffers in silence until the day she meets one of her husband’s mistresses and everything changes. Ino is someone she can trust, someone who offers her comfort and to whom she can confide her secrets, past and present. Together, the two women find the hope of a new freedom…