MANY CHICKENS, LOTS OF LUCK – BANYAK AYAM BANYAK REJEKI
Riboet Akbar, Önar Önarsson | Indonesien 2020 | 101 Min. | OmeU
ONLINE AM MITTWOCH 12.5. & DONNERSTAG 13.5.
NUR IN ÖSTERREICH VERFÜGBAR
Internationale Premiere
Am ersten Drehtag eines Werbevideos für den Indoneser Arjun, Streetfood-Ikone und Polygamist, wird der schwedische Regieassistent von einer Durian-Frucht am Kopf getroffen und fällt ins Koma. Als er erwacht, hält er sich für einen Javaner und besteht darauf, für den Film einen „feministischen“Ansatz zu wählen und die Situation von Arjuns Frauen öffentlich zu thematisieren. Arjun selbst ist hinterher ruiniert, doch dann taucht seine mysteriöse zweite Frau auf, um den Ruf der Familie zu retten.
MANY CHICKENS, LOTS OF LUCK ist eine unterhaltsame Gratwanderung zwischen Dokufiction, Realsatire und Langzeitdoku, die den gesellschaftlichen Wandel in Indonesien über elf Jahre hinweg begleitet. Gesellschaftskritik, die mit Charme und Witz noch lange in einem nachhallt.
Directors: Önar Önarsson (he/him), Riboet Akbar (he/him)
Producers: Koes Yuliadi (he/him), Dag Yngvesson (he/him)
Writers: Dag Yngvesson, Koes Yuliadi , Windi Wahyu Ningtyas (she/her)
Cinematographer, Editor, Sound: Önar Önarsson
Screenings
Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. November 26-December 14, 2020 (domestic premiere). Online (restricted to local IP) and offline.
Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. January 15-21, 2021 (2nd domestic premiere). Online (restricted to Malaysian IP).
Biographies
Önar Önarsson was a Swedish graduate student studying gender and power in Indonesia. After a tragic incident with a Durian, Önarsson developed a strange obsession with the late director Nya Abbas Akup, proclaiming him the „Marxist-feminist Ingmar Bergman of Indonesia.“ Driven to make similar films, his work with videographer Riboet Akbar quickly evolved into something far stranger than either could have imagined. Önarsson is currently hiding out in Malaysia under the pseudonym „Om Duck.“
Riboet Akbar was a legendary mobile cinema operator and emcee working in Yogyakarta and Central Java. Wiped out in the late 1980s by the spread of television and the exciting new „drilling“ dances performed at Dangdut music shows, Akbar has since supported himself as an event videographer, promoter and multimedia impresario. His specialty is perking up flagging local food businesses with innuendos and sexualized imagery that he guarantees to increase sales. This is his first „art“ film.
