This document provides information about a film screening event called "It Takes a Village" being held at kineforum in Jakarta from September 7-30, 2016. The event will feature a series of films that examine problems faced by children and how communities can support them. Films include Please Vote For Me about 8-year-olds running for class monitor, Gayby Baby about children with same-sex parents, Jihad Selfie about teenage recruitment by extremists, and Jermal about a father-son relationship. The screenings will be accompanied by discussions with child psychologists and educators. The goal is to reflect on children's challenges and how adults can guide them.

1. It Takes a Village
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2. SEPTEMBER 2016
PERSPECTIVE
It Takes a Village
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
—African Proverb
When we think about the word "children", in general we associated the word
with cuteness, happiness, innocence... things that are related to joyful
childhood. The reality is, children and childhood are not always rainbows and
unicorns. As children, we were not without pain, sadness and weariness;
pressures, demands and challenges. In short, problems. How did we, the
adults of today, deal with those problems? Who and what has guided us
through those problems? What kind of adults are have we become, after
surviving those problems? This program invites the audience to ponder on
these thoughts.
"It Takes a Village" presents a series of film that talks about children and their
problems. Problems that might seems simple, yet unusual. In Please Vote for
Me, we see children of 8-9 years old experiencing politics. For the first time,
the students get to choose first own class monitor. We see what kind of
motivation, pressure and method the canditates use in their campaign. How
those factors influence their decisions and the consequences, the expected
and the unexpected.
In Gayby Baby, we have the opportunity to hear from the children who are
raised by same-sex parents. How their parents' sexual preferences raised
different opinions in the society and how those opinions effected their
childhood. In Indonesia, most LGBTs are still struggling to get (positive)
ackonowledgement from the society. Even where are very few who are
fighting for the rights to legally parent a child, Gayby Baby is an important
film, exactly because it presents the point of view of the children.
The director of Jihad Selfie met Akbar, the subject of this documentary, by
chance, when he was getting a meal in Turkey. This meeting lead the
filmmaker to follow the story on how teenagers are being recruited by
extremists through social media. What is so attractive from these offers given
by the extremists to the teenagers like Akbar? This film, in a way, has provided
a platform for the teenager to share his aspirations, the ones which lured them
to consider joining an extremist group.
Unlike the other films in this program, Jermal is a fiction film. The filmmakers
chose to shot the film in a realistic-documentary style, because they were
inspired by the reality of a group of child who works off-shore in North
Sumatera. They come from poor families and do not have convenient access to
education. Working is their way of life and violence is often a necessity for
survival. The story combines that harsh reality with a father-and-son drama
which general audience can relate to.

3. Lee Hirsch, the director of Bully, was bullied as a child. That was part of the
motivation for the film, and for the direction he took it. Being bullied is the
most common form of violence experienced by young people in the US, yet
many supposedly-responsible adults chose to ignore this destructive habit and
underestimated the impact of bullying. The film features how bullying has
effected 5 kids and their families; it also captures a growing movement to
change how bullying is handled in schools, in communities and in society as a
whole.
The film screenings take places in kineforum on 7-30 September
2016. There is also a discussion on 11 September 2016 with Lestia
Primayanti, the headmaster of Sekolah Kembang, a school which aimed
to introduce the joy of learning to their young students; and Harini
Tunjungsari, a psychologist and a lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology in
Atma Jaya University.
This program invites the audience to reflect on how children have
their own point of view to deal with the bittersweetness of life. And
how the adults can guide these children to draw a proper assessment and
address the problems in their life, without loosing their hope and joy. At the
end of the day, it really does take the whole village to raise a child.
Please Vote for Me
Director Weijun Chen / Country China, South Africa, Denmark / Genre
Documentary / Year 2007 / Duration 58 minutes / Language Chinese /
Subtitle English / Format Digital / Classification PG12
Please Vote for Me follows the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class
of eight-year-old children in Wuhan, China. The candidates compete against
each other for the coveted role and are egged on by their teachers and doting
parents.
SYNOPSES
Film Source
PT. Amero Mitra Film
ECCO Films Indonesia
Noor Huda Ismail
Rise And Shine World Sales UG
STEPS
Suryani Liauw
Programmer
Thank You
Ardi Yunanto
Charlotte Mars & Maya Newell
Elise McCave
In-Docs
Lee Hirsch
Lulu Ratna
Malinda Wink
Nina Masjhur
Orlow Seunke

4. Jermal
Directors Ravi Bharwani, Rayya Makarim, Orlow Seunke / Actors Iqbal S.
Manurung, Didi Petet, Yayu AW Unru / Country Indonesia / Genre Fiction /
Year 2008 / Duration 92 minutes / Language Indonesian / Subtitle
English / Format Digital / Classification PG12
Jaya is sent to a fishing platform in the middle of the sea, to live with Johar,
his father, who is not even aware that he existed. While the son is forced to
deal with being rejected by his father and being bullied the other boys; the
father is forced to face the horrid past he thought he has left behind, and deal
with the present and consider a better future for both him and his son.
Bully
Director Lee Hirsch / Country USA / Genre Documentary / Year 2011 /
Duration 98 minutes / Language English / Subtitle English / Format
Digital / Classification PG12
Bully is a character-driven documentary, featuring five stories, each
representing a different facet of America’s bullying crisis. Bully opens a
window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a
problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders.
Gayby Baby
Director Maya Newell / Country Australia / Genre Documentary / Year
2015 / Duration 85 minutes / Language English / Subtitle Indonesian /
Format Digital / Classification PG12
Kids being raised by same-sex couples are growing in numbers worldwide.
Who are these kids? What do they think about having same-sex parents? And
do they face different issues to other kids? At a time when the world is
debating marriage equality, these questions are more pertinent than ever. Told
from the perspective of the kids, Gayby Baby is intimate and sometimes
humorous account of four children and their families.
Jihad Selfie
Director Noor Huda Ismail / Country Indonesia / Genre Documentary / Year
2016 / Duration 50 minutes / Language Indonesian / Subtitle English /
Format Digital / Classification 18+
In Jihad Selfie, director, Noor Huda Ismail, follows the story of how Indonesian
teenagers are recruited to Islamic State. Teuku Akbar Maulana, the subject of
his film, is an Acehnese teenager studying in Turkey. through online social
media, he was invited to join the Islamic State.

5. kineforum is an alternative screening space in Jakarta. Managed by Jakarta Arts Council, young volunteers, with
cooperation with XXI Cineplex. We offer a variety of program, including classical and contemporary films, local and
international film, and invite the general public to take part in the world cinema -- past and present. kineforum also
aimed to provide an exhibition space to initiate dialogs between the filmmakers and the audience; and also to deliver
quality films for film enthusiasts, especially those who enjoy non-mainstream films.
DONATION
IDR15,000 (Monday, Wednesday-Friday) | IDR20,000 (Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays)
except those marked * (Please Vote for Me and Bully) are for free, no donation needed.
PROGRAM DISCUSSION “IT TAKES A VILLAGE”
Sunday, 11 September - 17.00 (FREE)
Speakers:
Lestia Primayanti (Headmaster of Sekolah Kembang)
Harini Tunjungsari (psychologist and lecturer of Faculty of Psychology UNIKA Atma Jaya)
DISCUSSION ON JIHAD SELFIE
Wednesday, 14 September - 14.15 and Wednesday, 21 September - 19.30
Speakers:
T. Akbar Maulana (the subject of Jihad Selfie)
Taufik Andrie (Executive Director of Yayasan Prasasti Perdamaian)
WED 7 SEPTEMBER
WED, 28 SEPTEMBER
WED, 14 SEPTEMBER
Please Vote for Me*
Please Vote for Me*
FRI, 9 SEPTEMBER
Jihad Selfie
FRI, 30 SEPTEMBER
Bully*
MON, 19 SEPTEMBER
Gayby Baby
THU, 15 SEPTEMBER
Gayby Baby
THU, 29 SEPTEMBER
Jermal
Bully*
Gayby Baby
Jihad Selfie
Please Vote for Me*
14.15:
14.15:
14.15:
14.15:
14.15:
14.15:17.00:
17.00:
19.30:
19.30:
19.30:
SAT, 10 SEPTEMBER
WED, 21 SEPTEMBER
Bully*
MON 12 SEPTEMBER
Jermal
MON, 26 SEPTEMBER
Bully*
THU, 11 SEPTEMBER
THU, 22 SEPTEMBER
Please Vote for Me*
THU, 8 SEPTEMBER
Gayby Baby
Jermal
Jermal
Jihad Selfie
14.15: 14.15:
14.15:14.15:
17.00:
17.00:
17.00:
19.30:
19.30:
Program Discussion
"It Takes a Village"