Mbah Jhiwo (2022)

Title: Ancient Soul

Original Title: Mbah Jhiwo

Release Date: 2022-05-27

Status: Released

Rating: 4/10 (from 2 votes)

Language: JV

Genres: Drama

Production Companies: My Deer Films

A Kawa Ijen sulfur miner finds his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. He enters then a time loop that transforms his reality as his beliefs move from animism to Islam and capitalism. In a hybridization between ethnofiction and documentary, the film questions the myth of progress and explores the relationship with the otherness in the neocolonial reality of the South Seas
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