The Silent Path
by Yonri Revolt
Indonesia, 2024
synopsis
After his adoptive father returned to the Netherlands, the film director opened his father’s diary and discovered personal stories that he didn’t know existed. Stories about love, armed conflict and colonialism are told through the eyes of a man named Soebertono Mote a.k.a. Father Bert Hagendoorn.
about the director
Yonri Revolt (b. 1992) is co-founder and chief of Yoikatra, a non-profit artist collective based in Timika, Papua, Indonesia. He studied visual experimentation at Milisifilem Collective based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Some of his film includes Mayday! May Day! Mayday! (2022), The Silent Path (2024), Muman Minggil (2023), and Tete, Nene, Permisi (2025), that was screened worldwide. The last one had its world premiere at Arkipel — Jakarta Experimental Film Festival 2025, The Silent Path had its premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival as well as won Best Indonesian Feature-Length Film at Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta. Mayday! May Day! Mayday! had its International Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam and became his feature film directorial debut. In it, we can see a style that is very playful with the material, evoking smiles through satire, and using archives as a new offering in storytelling. Yonri also focuses on exploring film as a medium that connects one knowledge with another, such as ethno-astronomy, geomythology, and botanical theology.
