The Photograph

Director : Nan Achnas
Country : Indonesia
Running Time: 94 mins.

SITA (25), a karaoke bar hostess moves in a small attic room in a house cum studio belonging to JOHAN (50), a Chinese-Indonesian traveling photographer. Sita also moonlights as a prostitute. One day, she is gang raped by a group of drunken customers and is badly beaten up and Johan saves her. Sita decides that she can no longer return to her life as a bar hostess and offers to be Johan's servant because she cannot pay the rent. Sita finds out that Johan has only a few months to live and eventually helps him to fulfill three wishes which are represented in three photographs. One, a photo of the sea which is his wish to travel on a ship and visit China; the second, a photo of railway tracks which represents his yearning to travel by train and the third is a photo of an empty chair beside an old camera which is his quest to find a successor. One day, Johan is enraged because Sita discovers his grim past and drives her away. Weeks pass and one evening a very ill Johan asks her to take a photograph of him. As she is about to take the photo, Johan dies. Sita pretends that Johan is still alive and using the timer she takes a final photo of her smiling into the camera with Johan sitting beside her.

NAN ACHNAS

NAN ACHNAS graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television, Jakarta Institute of the Arts, majoring in directing. she then took a masters degree in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her diploma film "Only a Day" wom the Gran Prix at the Asian Young cinema Film Festival in Tokyo.

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