Feature-Length Doc.Films (LubisTeamWorker)
MASKED MONKEY -The Evolution of Darwin's Theory , 2014
Director: Ismail Fahmi Lubish
Producer: Ismail Fahmi Lubish - Agustiya Herdwiyanto
Lubish Team Worker- SalesFourcolours Films
Scenario: Ismail Fahmi Lubish, Oyjai Nanta
Cinematography: Ismail Fahmi Lubish
Editor: Lilik Subagyo
Length110' / Film format DCP /Documentary film/ January 2014
Up-close portrait of exuberant, controversial monkey shows in the slums of Jakarta. And if the apes are treated roughly, their trainers hardly get any better. The struggle for life is hard, but also a feast for the eyes. Social realism with a sense of humour.
Masked Monkey opens as a classic, romantic nature film - but this quickly changes when a monkey playing in the wild is captured and the scene shifts to hectic Jakarta. Street artists use monkeys in the most incredible shows.
It turns out that these street artists are not much freer than their monkeys; both are being exploited. The shows with monkeys wearing masks - so they look even more like little people - are in fact illegal, but their popularity makes them hard to control.
The film follows the people and animals involved in these shows and gives a disconcerting picture of a metropolis where many people live in appalling conditions. Despite its clear social commitment, however, Masked Monkey maintains a cheerful, playful tone. The filmmaker gambols around his subject (like a monkey, you could say) and does not ask too many questions. He simply observes - something he is very good at.
January 2014, Governor of Jakarta, Mr. Joko Widodo has banned masked monkey attractions in Jakarta. And then follow by serveral other towns in Indonesia.
TARLING IS DARLING - PANTURA (2017)
Prod: LubisTeamWorker
Dir : Ismail Fahmi Lubis
Producers: Ismail Fahmi Lubis - Dria Soetomo - Wiwien Wijayanti
Executive Producers: Leonard Retel Helmrich - Oyjai Nanta
Editor: Dewi Alibasah
As a traditional music, Tarling Dangdut is very much loved as well as denounced for being obscene. The film tells a story of a Tarling Dangdut songwriter who loves being promiscuous but trying to serve an order to write religious Tarling dangdut song. TARLING IS DARLING is a musical documentary film that was treated as an entertaining feature film. It was shot with a very intimate approach to all of its characters, using a single-shot-cinema technique. The audience will be brought to the most riveting and indecorous private events of its characters.
World Premier Busan International Film Festival 2017
Jurry Mention, TIDF (Taiwan Internation Documentary Festival 2018)
Prix Bartox, Jean Rouch Film Festival, Paris 2018.
RISE of THE ECO-WARRIORS 2014
Production company: Virgo Productions
Cast: Dr Willie Smits, Paul Daley, Ben Dessen, Fahrani Empel, Liza Heavener
Writer-director: Cathy Henkel
Executive producers: Alan Finney, Jenny Lalor, Cathy Overett
Producers: Cathy Henkel, Mark White, Richard Hearman
Director of photography: Ismail Fahmi Lubish-Ezther
Music: Loic Valmy
Editor: Scott Walton
No MPAA rating, 105 minutes
A group of passionate and adventurous young people leave their known worlds behind to spend 100 days in the jungles of Borneo. Their mission: saving rainforests and endangered orangutans.
But time is running out and the odds are against them. Jojo, an orphaned baby orangutan, is entrusted in their care and they must find a way to return her to her forest home. Their challenges include building an orangutan rehabilitation centre, introducing a satellite monitoring system called Earthwatchers, replanting a forest and building a global support network.
This is a story about what it takes to be an eco-warrior, an individual willing to step up and take action to avert a global catastrophe. For them, every individual matters, every action counts.
WORKS FOR CINEMATOGRAPHER
SHOW ME THE MAGIC -The Avdentures of Don McAlpine 2012
Directed By Cathy Henkel
Produced by Cathy Henkel (Virgo Productions) and Trish Lake (Freshwater Pictures)
Aditional camera : Ismail (Ezther) Fahmi Lubis, Erika Addis, Peter Baker, Austin Andrews, Paul Butler, Tim Barnsley, Boris Vymenets, Rebecca McElroy
Produced in association with Screen Queensland and Screen Australia, Studio (Australia’s art & entertainment channel), Deluxe and Panavision.
Show Me The Magic tells the story of Don McAlpine's journey from a one-horse town in outback NSW to the heights of Hollywood, weaving historical archive with Don's own personal collection and on-location footage.
Don (now 77 and still working) has filmed more than 50 features including Romeo + Juliet, Wolverine, Chronicles of Narnia and such classics as Predator, Patriot Games and Mrs Doubtfire. He was part of the creative team behind such iconic Australia's films as Breaker Morant, My Brilliant Career and The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie. In 2012, he shot his first digital feature, Mental, directed by PJ Hogan.
The film also reveals the importance of Don's relationship with his wife and partner of over 50 years, Jeanette McAlpine.
Show me the Magic will engage and delight anyone who has ever been touched by the magic of movies.
POSITION AMONG The STARS / Stand van de Steeren 2010
Nederland, 2010 / 109 min. / 1.4 K en 2K / Kleur / Dolby SR / Bahasa Indonesia REGIE Leonard Retel Helmrich
CAMERA Ismail Fahmi Lubish/ Leonard Retel Helmrich
MONTAGE Jasper Naaijkens
MUZIEK Danang Faturahman / Fahmy Al-attas
PRODUCENT Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich voor Scarabeefilms
For 12 years, filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich followed an Indonesian family from the slums of Jakarta. This resulted in the trilogy “Stand van de zon”, “Stand van de maan” and “Stand van de sterren” (“Eye of the Day”, “Shape of the Moon” “Position Among the Stars”). Just like in the previous two parts, which received many international prizes, in the third part “Position Among the Stars” the maker shows us the underlying patterns of life in Indonesia. He presents both literally and metaphorically with his revolutionary camera work. The Indonesian Sjamsuddin family is, in a way, a microcosm in which you can recognise the most important issues of life in Indonesia: corruption, conflict between religions, gambling addiction, the generation gap and the growing difference between poor and rich.
The documentary Position Among the Stars (Stand van de sterren) by Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich will open this year’s 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film will be screened Wednesday 17 November in Pathé Tuschinski cinema. The film also competes in the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary.
SHAPE of The MOON / Stand van de Maan 2004
DirectorLeonard Retel Helmrich
ScreenplayLeonard Retel Helmrich, Hetty Naaijkens-Retel, Helmrich
Dir. of PhotographyLeonard Retel Helmrich, Ismail Fahmi Lubish
EditingAndrez de Jong, Denise Janzé, Robert Broekhof
MusicErnst Jansz, Joep Lans,Dio Oberon
SoundRanko Paukovic, Editson
Duration92 min
Year2004
CountryNetherlands
ColourColour
TagsAsia, family, observational, religion, social issues, society
ProductionScarabeefilms
This vivid follow up to The Eye of the Day,
Indonesia is the fourth biggest nation in the world, and the country with the largest Muslim community on the globe. In Leonard Retel Helmrich’s latest film, SHAPE OF THE MOON, the audience is transported to the heart of this almost unknown landscape through the life of one family of three generations, who are struggling to build a bridge between hope and faith.
Rumidjah, a 62-year-old widow, lives in Jakarta, Indonesia with her son Bakti and her 13-year-old granddaughter Tari. Since the fall of dictator Suharto seven years ago, she has witnessed the country passing through a tumultuous period of socio-political chaos. Rapid globalization and democratization have spawned a subculture of criminality and uncertainty. Islam, the largest religion in Indonesia, is trying to maintain order and discipline, while becoming increasingly fundamentalist in its tone, which has consequences on the everyday lives of all Indonesians, no matter their religion. Rumidjah, who is a Christian, has had more than enough of the capital’s chaos of these last years. When her son Bakti converts to Islam to marry a Muslim girl, Rumidjah seriously considers leaving the hectic city forever and moving to the safety of the countryside.
The care for her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Tari is the one and only thing that still ties Rumidjah to the city. She decides to take her on a visit to her native village in Central Java. The countryside there is bright, the sun shines almost everyday, all year round. Life is initially full of promise. Old friends of Rumidjah welcome them, and all the inhabitants of the village help her to renovate the foundations of her old wooden house. Rumidjah feels happy in the village, but for the thirteen-year-old Tari, Rumidjah sees no future in such an environment. Despite Tari’s desperate pleas to stay, Rumidjah sends her back to Jakarta with her son Bakti.
Rumidjah soon realizes that in the countryside things haven’t stayed the same either. Every day she walks through fields of rice looking for work, but mechanization has made it almost impossible to find employment on the farms. Survival as an old uneducated woman in the face of such brutal change is difficult. Rumidjah manages to find small comfort thinking of her granddaughter who is now getting a good education in Jakarta, and who will certainly get further in life. Through her faith in God, Rumidjah carries on looking for work and doesn’t lose hope for a better future.
THE EYE of THE DAY / Stand van de Zon 2002
Netherlands : Scarabee Film ; Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, 2001 (e [Montreal, Canada]
Productie
Hetty Naaykens-Retel Helmrich
Regie en camera
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Scenario
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Hetty Naaykens-Retel Helmrich
Montage
Denise Janzée
Robert Broekhof
In 1998 a deep political and economic crisis forced President Suharto to resign after 32 years in power. This was the beginning of the tumultuous period known in Indonesia as the Reformasi. With a population of 200 million, Indonesia has seen ongoing political change, accompanied by protests, poverty and general insecurity. The Eye of the Day documents these conflicts as they play out in the lives of sixty-year-old Rumijah, her two sons Bakti and Dwi, and her friend Ibu Sum. In the cinéma vérité tradition, filmmaker Helmrich creates this cinematographic feast for the eyes while capturing the trials and tribulations of everyday life in Indonesia today. While filming a demonstration in 1995, Helmrich was arrested and jailed as a suspected spy, then declared persona non grata. He was not able to return to Indonesia until 1997 - that same year he began following Rumijah and her family with his camera.
Originally produced as a motion picture in Netherlands in 2001 by Scarabee Films, co-production with the Humanist Broadcasting Foundation. Original title: Stand van de zon
THE BURNING SEASON 2009
Directed byCathy Henkel
Produced byJeff Canin, Cathy Henkel and Trish Lake
Written byCathy Henkel
StarringLone Drøscher Nielsen, Dorjee Sun, Achmadi
Narrated byHugh Jackman
Music byNicolette Boaz
CinematographyLeonard Retel Helmrich, Ismail Fahmi Lubis
Edited byJane St Vincent Welch
Distributed byNational Geographic International
Release date(s) 2 August 2008 (BIFF) 10 September 2009 (New Zealand)
Running time90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
In 2006, BIFF screened An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Al Gore's relentlessly engaging assertion of the dangers of not addressing climate change. Two years later, The Burning Season represents the hard yards involved in finding practical ways to reduce carbon emissions and reverse accelerating deforestation in the developing world. The filmmakers follow young Australian-born entrepreneur Dorjee Sun as he embarks on the self-imposed task of marrying Wall Street finance and a team of experts with grass-roots regional politics in a $100 million forest-protection fund designed to tackle the problem in Indonesia (the world's third-largest emitter of carbon after the United States and China). In Kalimantan we find rehabilitation expert Lone Droscher-Nielsen battling to save the multitude of infant orangutans fast losing their habitat due to the clearing of forests for an expanding palm-oil industry. The film finally takes us to the Bali Conference for the renewal of the Kyoto Protocol, where Dorjee waits for a decision on which the future of his scheme depends.
HELP IS ON THE WAY (2020)
Prod: 2id & PTS Taiwan
EBS South Korea, PTS Taiwan, Go Play, Doc Cross Asia
Dir & Cinematography : Ismail Fahmi Lubis
Within the corrupt systems of recruitment, training and placement, millions of rural Indonesian women place their hopes and dreams in domestic care roles overseas. Can competent help be delivered when the path is broken?
Help Is On The Way brings to the screen a busy training center in Indonesia preparing women to work overseas as domestic workers. Every year, hundreds of women like Sukma, Meri, Muji and Tari are recruited by local agents who are remunerated after successfully seeing their recruits enrolled and placed abroad. They are among the many women from rural areas aspiring to work in countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It is at times an emotional journey, but also funny, enlightening and a little competitive, offering a unique insight into a lifestyle not often seen on screen.
Winner : Best Long Documentary Festival Film Indonesia 2019.
FLIGHT FROM HEAVEN
Technical: Color-BW: Color Support: BetaNum
Duration: 52 min.
Director: Retel Helmrich Leonard
Production: VPRO Sumatralaan 49 Hilversum
Image: Ismail Fahmi lubis, Leonard Retel Helmrich
Sound: Leonard Retel helmrich
Cut/Edit: Andrea De Jong
Recent attacks like a nightclub in Bali in October 2002 and more recently at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta in July 2003 , have been doing the world a scare. Indonesia was still known as the Land of Smiles , a moderate Muslim community? But the attacks that changed radically image and Indonesia had a grim face. Especially because the perpetrators were found in fundamentalist Islamic circles largely formed by Muslim boys boarding . Backlit portrait of such a boys' boarding school in Central Java .A Muslim school in Indonesia
With the growing poverty in Indonesia also spreading Islam more and more . Fundamentalist organizations play an active social role in Indonesia. One of the areas in which they operate is to set up schools. In Central Java alone, the number of Muslim schools has doubled over the past fifteen years . These Muslim schools have reversed again a major impact on the political and social life .
In ' Flight from heaven' that the Muslim boys boarding schools also play a role in attacks that occur regularly in villages in Java . Attacks which do not reach the world press because they are ' small' .
How do young people in a Muslim school visit , how are young Muslims trained and what ideas are they formed? What is the meaning of Islam for these young people and how does the school in their daily lives ? Documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel follows the 13 -year-old Johan placed . By his parents in a boys' boarding school The documentary will be shown from the inside how the fellow students and teachers Johan the ins and outs of the boarding attempt to bring .
曾经的天堂
Promised Paradise
国家：新西兰
内容简介：中文暂无
片长：52'
制作机构及人员：SMILEY FILM DISTRIBUTION & WORLD SALES
制片人Producer：HETTY NAAIJKENS-RETEL HELMRICH
导演 Director：LEONARD RETEL HELMRICH
剪辑 Editor：BAS ROETERINK,HETTY NAAIJKENS-RETEL HELMRICH
摄像 Camera：LEONARD RETEL HELMRICH ISMAIL FAHMI LUBISCH
录音 Sound：RANKO PAUKOVIC Director : Leonard Retel Helmrich
Photography : Leonard Retel Helmrich, Ismail Fahmi Lubisch
Editing : Bas Roeterink, Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
Music : Harry Roesli
Lenght : 52 min
Country : Netherlands, Indonesia
Year : 2006
Banned in Indonesia, Promised Paradise (2006, 52 minutes) follows the quest of an Indonesian puppete e r to meet three men convicted of the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali. Shows the puppeteer’s unique method of exploring the issue of terrorism through puppet shows, featuring – among other things – a dancing Osama Bin Laden doll and a shadow-play attack on the World Trade Center. In a su burb in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, the largest Muslim community of the world, encased in a cardboard television set, troubadour Agus re-enacts the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York in front of a public of children, using the packaging of a toy featuring the Word Trade Centrer and a weird looking fish-plane. "Everything you see on your television is a lie: in this cardboard television the people are made of flesh and blood," he explains. Looking for answers, Agus tries to encounter terrorist Imam Samudra, the organizer of the 2002 discotheque bombing in Bali, in his cell in order to better corner him. He even consults a paranormal medium to enter in contact with one of the suicide bombers who died during the attack, and ask him if he regrets his act. Promised Paradise confronts reality to theatrical performances through scenes inspired by acts of violence that shatter the country and the confusions that plague Indonesian society.
HEAVEN FOR INSANITY
Director: Dria Soetomo
Producer Orlow Seunke
Photography: Ismail Fahmi Lubis
Editor: Puck Goossen
Length: 32'
The man is reported by his neighbours to a beastly madhouse. They also come to fetch him. There's no way out.
A short and powerful documentary, made in a workshop for young film makers. That is not obvious. The form is self-assured, the substance is more than mature.
A heart-rending portrait of a madhouse (you really can't call it a psychiatric institution) that makes you wonder if it isn't fiction.