Anwars feature travelled to the Venice, Toronto, Busan and Rotterdam film festivals.
Getting into the major film festivals was quite a phenomenal thing for us, said Kim.
It was a monumental fresh start for us.
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On the positive side, this shows the strength of film production in Indonesia with the countrys prolific output.
The role of independent producers in the film ecosystem has to be given more support, said Tee.
However, some films need a bit more time to build that word-of-mouth and to gain traction.