Motherland Memories(2022)

Motherland Memories Synopsis

Ompung Putra Boru, a sixties indigenous Batak woman from Humbang Hasundutan, North Sumatra, retraces her life stories through photographs that interweave her past and present as a wife, mother, healer and indigenous land defender in two neighboring villages. Her multi-layered stories are juxtaposed with visual records of everyday life in the two villages, where people’s living space is still increasingly threatened by a giant pulp expansion.

Motherland Memories (2022) is a documentary film directed by Moses Parlindungan O., released on November 19, 2022 with a runtime of 1h 4m.