By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The film mixes occult terror with the country’s true-life culture and politics.
Film Movement has announced its acquisition of North American rights to INDERA, with a July release set on VOD, all leading digital platforms and the home entertainment marketplace on its Omnibus Entertainment label. Directed by Woo Ming Jin from a script he wrote with Deo Mahameru and Muzzamer Rahman, it stars Shaheizy Sam, Azira Shafinaz, Samara Kenzo, Ruminah Sidek, Adlin Aman Ramlee and Mia Deen. The synopsis: “With 1985’s Memali Incident in the background, involving a fatal raid by police against villagers accused of fundamentalism, INDERA centers on Joe [Sam], a handyman doing his best to raise his young daughter Sofia [Kenzo] in the wake of his wife’s tragic death. Penniless and evicted, he takes on the position of caretaker for an older Javanese woman [Sidek], raising three young orphans in a remote rural village. The locals give the woman a wide berth for mysterious reasons, while Joe and his daughter experience strange visions.”
