Daun di Atas Bantal

Daun di Atas Bantal released in English as Leaf on a Pillow is a 1998 award winning Indonesian film directed by Garin Nugroho. It is one of the most acclaimed films from Indonesia in recent years and was the countrys proposal for an Academy Award. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

The childrens lives do not go smoothly. Kancil is decapitated while playing on top of a train. Heru falls victim to an insurance scam, where he is given false identification papers and then killed to collect the premium.Daun di Atas Bantal was produced by Hakim, who also played Alih. The film was her first production, and she initially did not intend to act in it to avoid stress however, she changed her mind after being told the film would be more marketable in Japan if she acted in it. Hakim has called the film an expensive university for her because she made a mistake that required Nugroho to reshoot all of the footage. In an attempt to cut expenses, she had saved all cans of exposed film in an attempt to send them to the developing together upon their receipt, the lab notified her that a technical fault with the camera had rendered the film unusable, and that it could have been detected earlier had she sent each can as it was filmed. ........

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