Johan, on the cusp of manhood, lives alone with his Mama on a crocodile farm in West Java. Mother and son live in voluntary exile with only a white crocodile as their confidant. Their life of isolation is disrupted when Johan falls for a girl in town, Arumi, setting off a chain of events that threatens the delicate balance of their lives. As the fabric of their world unravels, Mama’s opposition manifests in increasingly bizarre ways…

Toronto Film Festival 2024 - Centerpiece

SCREENINGS IN TORONTO
Monday 9 at 6:40pm, Scotiabank Theatre (Public)
Monday 9 at 9:40pm, Scotiabank Theatre (P&I)
Tuesday 10 at 5:10pm, Scotiabank Theatre (Public)
Thursday 12 at 3:15pm, Scotiabank Theatre (Public)

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Director Tumpal Tampubolon Screenwriter Tumpal Tampubolon Cast Yusuf Mahardika, Marissa Anita, Zulfa Maharani Editor Jasmine Ng Kin Kia, Kelvin Nugroho Director of Photography Teck Siang Lim Production Designer Jafar Shiddiq Costume Designer Hagai Pakan Original Score Kin Leonn Sound Roman Dymny Year 2024 Category Fiction Language Indonesian Run time 98' Original title Crocodile Tears Country of production Indonesia Countries of co-Production Singapore, France, Germany Production company Talamedia (Mandy Marahimin) Co-Production companies Acrobates Films (Claire Lajoumard), Poetik Film (Christophe Lafont), Giraffe Pictures PTE Ltd, (Anthony Chen, Yi Peng Teoh), 2Pilots Filmproduction (Harry Floëter, Jörg Siepmann) Sound format 5.1

Tumpal Tampubolon is a cinephile-turned-filmmaker, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Math. In 2005, his first screenplay, The Last Believer, won the Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest) Script Development Competition for Best Short Fiction category. It was a chance for him to have first-hand filmmaking experience. Since then, he has written and directed several short films, which were screened in various domestic and international film festival.

Tumpal has also been selected to attend the Asian Young Filmmakers Forum, a filmmaker-in-residence program in Jeonju, South Korea, Berlinale Talent Campus, and Asian Film Academy in Busan.

He is one of the nine directors that participated in Belkibolang omnibus film; a feature length film consists of nine short films that showcases the new and promising talents in Indonesian cinema. Belkibolang was screened at Rotterdam International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, and Udine Far East Film Festival.

In 2014, he won the Citra Award, Indonesia’s most prestigious film awards, for Best Original Screenplay, for Tabula Rasa.

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