Screen can reveal the first trailer for Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s female-focused drama Before, Now & Then ahead of its premiere in competition at the Berlinale.
Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, the story revolves around the domestic life of a woman whose personal life has been completely overturned by the political turmoil.
Happy Salma stars as a woman who loses her first husband, child and home in the conflict but finds a refuge of sorts in a second marriage to a wealthy man with patriarchal values and a penchant for taking mistresses. She finds comfort in a friendship with one of these other women.
“[Before, Now & Then ] is the story of a woman who is a victim to an era, war, politics, rebellion and patriarchal social life who wants to find the meaning of her own freedom as a woman,” says Andini of the film.
The director arrives in Berlin after a high-profile 2021 on the international festival circuit with her third feature Yuni. The contemporary coming-of-age tale about a teenage girl was Indonesia’s submission to the best international film category of the 2022 Oscars.
A Berlinale regular, Andini was last at the festival in 2018 with The Seen And Unseen which played in Generation Kplus, winning its Grand Prix.
The film is produced by Ifa Isfansyah at Fourcolours Films and Andini’s long-time collaborator Gita Fara, who produced The Seen And Unseen. The Titimangsa Foundation is also on board as a co-production partner and the film also won the support of Purin Pictures Post-Production Fund and CJ & ENM Award at the Asian Project Market.
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