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Born September 8, 1991 in Jakarta, Monica Vanesa Tedja (they/she) is a Chinese-Indonesian filmmaker based between Berlin and Jakarta, whose films pose questions around minority identity issues through intimate character work, while also exploring the tensions of black and white morality: ranging from religion and sexuality to the non-binary identity.
Total trailers found: 6
25 July 2021
A 27-year-old Indonesian, Tim, is having a family vacation with both of his parents on a remote island far from the city, where they learn about the myth of a reincarnated deer that exists somewhere along the beach.
19 June 2014
A tender, melancholic night is experienced through the eyes of three women as they struggle to find themselves in this ever-changing jungle of Jakarta.
31 October 2024
Monica scours archive material for answers to the question of how queer life in Berlin and the wish to be accepted by their Christian-Indonesian parents can be reconciled.
29 April 2015
A quirky yet insecure 17-year-old girl named Maria V., who’s raised in a Catholic family and school, always masturbates before she goes to sleep.
20 February 2015
Callie is a 10 year-old girl who's intrigued when she saw two 15 year-old boys on her pick-up shuttle bus making a hand gesture which is considered as symbol related to sex.
01 January 2019
Driven by childlike curiosity and the desire to get to know his new German home better, 9-year-old Hamid has made it his business to observe his surroundings with his binoculars and to document the actions of other people in his neighborhood.
