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Since 1998 GIFF in cooperation with SIDA (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) runs Göteborg International Film Festival Fund. It is a fund that supports filmmakers who live and work in emerging economies.

Pesantren: 3 Wishes 3 Loves

Indonesia

Director: Nurman Hakim
Production Company: Triximages

This is a story of the three teenage friends Huda, Rian and Syahid living and schooling in a pesantren (Islamic religious school) in a small village in Central Java, Indonesia. Within a month they will graduate and in different ways be forced to face adulthood. Huda searches his mother who he hasn’t seen since she dropped him off at  school six years earlier, Rian plans to run away and work with a film company, and Syahid who comes from a poor farmer family is desperate to get together the money to fund an urgent liver transplant for his father.

When the World Trade Centre attack of 9/11 occurs this results in vast changes in all the three friends’ lives. Together with one of the teachers at their school they are accused of being members of a hard-line Islamic group known for its terrorist actions. Their lives are changed irrevocably. Their three personal stories are intertwined up until the moment when they are arrested and jailed. Pesantren: 3 Wishes 3 Loves tackles religious and social issues affecting Islamic youth and is easily accessible to a wide audience.

Director Biography

Nurman Hakim was born in Demak, Central Java, Indonesia. He graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television, Jakarta Institute of the Arts majoring in directing. He has directed several shorts films such as The Mask, The Shadows (Topeng, Bayangan, 2005), A Face From The Past (2005), The World a Thousand Times Over (Seribu Kali Dunia, 2003). Pesantren: 3 Whishes 3 Loves is his debut full-length feature film. He is currently working on a documentary about corruption in Indonesia, and is also lecturing at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts.

“The religious environment that I know of has always been tolerant to other religions and cultures, as well as peaceful. This is the perspective that I would like to show in Pesantren: 3 Wishes 3 Loves. (...) The 9/11 attack (...) and the series of events following this day have affected every Moslem in the world.”
Nurman Hakim