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CCA 5 Saturday 18th October
8.30-9.30 pm

Promised Paradise
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Netherlands/Indonesia 2006 / 52 Mins

Jakarta-based Indonesian puppeteer and troubadour Agus Nur Amal travels to Bali to call to account the people who were responsible for the bomb attack on a nightclub there on 12 October 2002.

As in his theatre shows, humour is his main weapon. Before an audience of children, we see him enact the attack on the Word Trade Center inside a gigantic "TV set." The doll of Osama Bin Laden swaying his hips gets his audience roaring with laughter.

But people stop laughing when his shadowplay about the WTC disaster changes into images of new bomb attacks in Indonesia - first on the Australian Embassy in September 2004, and later in Bali in October 2005. And while Agus is still in Bali, his friend Endang in Jakarta falls prey to intolerance and violence.

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The Centre for Contemporary Arts
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