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Indonesian Film Rides The Wave Of A Cinematic Revival
The film, "Perempuan Berkalung Sorban" (Woman with a Scarf Around her Neck), by local filmmaker Hanung Bramantyo is the latest Islam-inspired movie to ride the wave of a cinematic revival in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
While most of this growth has been in schlock-horror flicks, teen sex romp comedies or Muslim love stories, "Perempuan Berkalung Sorban" is aimed squarely at prompting a difficult internal debate among Muslims about how women are treated.
The film, which is based on a 2001 book by Abidah El-Khaliqey, tells the story of the rebellion of Anissa, the headstrong and intelligent daughter of the head of an Islamic boarding school on Java island.
Anissa wants to study at university, but her father pressures her into marriage to another cleric's son who beats her, rapes her, and impregnates another women who he then takes as a second wife.
That is only the first 30 minutes.
Suffice to say, some clerics are not happy.
But filmmaker Bramantyo says it is not a critique of Islam but of the patriarchal culture in many of the boarding schools and mosques throughout the country.
In the film, the answer to Anissa's struggle is not less Islam but more.
"The Islam born in Arabia under the Messenger of Allah is a free religion," Bramantyo told AFP.
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