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Mouly Surya’s Rotterdam Closer ‘This City Is a Battlefield’ Lands at Asian Shadows (EXCLUSIVE)
Asian Shadows has acquired international sales rights to Mouly Surya's 'This City Is A Battlefield,' the closing night film at the Rotterdam festival.
Set in 1946 Jakarta during Indonesia’s struggle for independence, the film follows Isa (Chicco Jerikho), a former war hero turned violin teacher who becomes entangled in the resistance movement alongside his wealthy student Hazil (Jerome Kurnia). Executive producers include Willawati, Mona Surya and Rieza Jusuf, while the co-producers are Isabelle Glachant, Anthony Chen, Tan Si En, Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts, Ingrid Lill Høgtun, Marie Fuglestein Lægreid, Linda Bolstad Strønen, Bianca Balbuena, Bradley Liew, Axel Hadiningrat and Loy Te. In times of wars we live in, digging into the past to make sense of the present, Mouly Surya breaks the rules of a cinema genre to reinvent it, so identity and dignity are just shaped by what one stands for and what one fights for.
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