Eddie CAHYONO / Indonesia, Japan / 2026 / 96min / Competition 

is the fourth feature from director Eddie Cahyono, who has continued to make films based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and first drew attention with . The film portrays the arduous life of a woman living deep in the mountains with a simplicity that is also imbued with a sense of the fantastical. It opens with cross-cutting between a young woman confined to a solitary prison cell and an elderly woman moving through the darkness. On the wall of the young woman’s cell, footage of women performing the Jathilan dance is projected. The young woman is Sri (Ayushita), and it is revealed that the elderly woman is her mother, Sumiati (Christine Hakim). After her husband, who had accumulated gambling debts, took his own life, Sumiati married Sri off in order to repay those debts. Sri was subsequently subjected to abuse by her violent husband before eventually leaving for another place. One day, she learns that Sri has been imprisoned for killing the employer who had abused her. Blaming herself for failing to protect her daughter, Sumiati desperately tries to find a way to afford the transportation costs to visit Sri. Centered on Sumiati, who once enjoyed a distinguished career as a Jathilan dancer, the film never unfolds in a straightforward manner. It places past and present, fantasy and reality, and the worlds of the living and the dead on the same plane, offering a multilayered portrait of the everyday lives of women living in the mountains of Indonesia. Christine Hakim, one of Indonesia’s most acclaimed actors, who has also appeared in Kohei Oguri’s Japanese film and the Hollywood film , carries the film with a performance that seems to inhabit a woman shaped by years of struggle against her circumstances. The harsh breathing heard from the very beginning speaks to the essence of a woman who has quietly carried the weight of patriarchy throughout her life. The movements of the Jathilan dance, interspersed throughout the film, powerfully convey the strength and dignity of these women, as well as the possibility of solidarity and empathy among them.​