Wet Earth and Warm People

This documentary by Michael Rubbo Waiting for Fidel offers candid glimpses of Indonesia and its people Filming in and around the capital of Jakarta the cameras follow where chance leads capturing the flavour of life in this fertile crescent of tropical islands Throughout the film the focus is on a society caught between the past and the conflicting options for the future to change or not to change from longestablished patterns of life to ones more influenced by western technology