Yuni

Yuni

Director: Kamila Andini.

Country: Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia

Year: 2021

Running Time: 95 minutes

Producer: Ifa Isfansyah

Starring: Arawinda Kirana, Kevin Ardilova, Dimas Aditya

Synopsis:

Yuni is a teenage girl — smart with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to marry her, she rejects their proposals, sparking gossip about a myth that a woman who rejects three proposals will never marry. The pressure is building when a third man asks for her hand, and Yuni must choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage, or her dream of future happiness.

Director’s Biography:

Kamila Andini is a mother and filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her concern of social culture, gender equality and environmental issue lead her passion to make films with a distinctive perspective of telling a story. Lately, she is also expanding her directing works into theatre.

Her third feature about an Indonesian teenage story called “Yuni” had its World Premiere in Platform competition at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. This is an Indonesian, Singapore, French and Australian production. She is also working on her fourth feature, an intimate film set in the 1960s unfolding the right and wrong of a woman’s life. “Before, Now and Then” (working title) is now in the production stage.