Postcards from the Zoo

Magical encounters at the Zoo. Only three years old, Lana is abandoned at the Ragunan zoo in Jakarta by her father. She grows up surrounded by animals and other drifters, feeling much like the animals themselves: safe, but trapped. When she finally ventures outside the walls, Lana finds the outside world to be a lot like inside the zoo. Lana relates to the people as she does to the animals: with distance but also curiosity. Postcards from the Zoo surprises as it shifts between the meditative and the brutal.
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The Indonesian director Edwin is most known for his feature films The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (2008) and Postcards from the Zoo (2012), both of which have made the rounds at festivals. Edwin has further written and directed several short films, including A Very Slow Breakfast (2003), A Very Boring Conversation (2006) and Hulahoop Soundings (2008).