Film: A Poet - Unconcealed Poetry (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia, 1999)

Poet Ibrahim Kadir survived the massacre of (alleged) communists by the Suharto government that caused half a million to two million deaths. In this film, Garin Nugroho reinterprets the mass murder; Kadir plays himself in this political drama about his arrest and imprisonment in Aceh during the 1960s. The prisoners determine the film's rhythm by singing didong poetry together with Kadir. Just like him, many of the actors lived through the tragedy. This film was made two years after Suharto's abdication, when the purges of the 1960s became a topic in Indonesian cinema. In Indonesian with English subtitles.