They Call Me Babu wins Dutch Film Festival Awards
Congratulations to the team of They Call Me Babu! The film won two awards at the Dutch Film Festival: Best Feature-Length Documentary and Best Montage. Both well deserved!
Congratulations to the team of They Call Me Babu! The film won two awards at the Dutch Film Festival: Best Feature-Length Documentary and Best Montage. Both well deserved!
The documentary was created from beautiful black and white archive image, and accompanied by an award-winning soundtrack composed by Alex Simu. They Call Me Babu tells a universal story about women taking charge of their own fate. In the 1940's, the young Alima decides to escape from an arranged marriage. She starts to work as a pembantu (nanny) to care for baby Jantje, the child of a Dutch colonial family. She experiences World War II, the Japanese occupation (in which her Dutch family ended up in internment camps), and afterwards the hard-fought independence of Indonesia. All these years Alima remained loyal to the child, but she was also loyal to Riboet, her beloved who fought in the Independence War.
The documentary was created from beautiful black and white archive image, and accompanied by an award-winning soundtrack composed by Alex Simu. They Call Me Babu tells a universal story about women taking charge of their own fate. In the 1940's, the young Alima decides to escape from an arranged marriage. She starts to work as a pembantu (nanny) to care for baby Jantje, the child of a Dutch colonial family. She experiences World War II, the Japanese occupation (in which her Dutch family ended up in internment camps), and afterwards the hard-fought independence of Indonesia. All these years Alima remained loyal to the child, but she was also loyal to Riboet, her beloved who fought in the Independence War.