''Shape of the Moon'' ( nl, Stand van de maan) is a 2004 Dutch/Indonesian

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich (16 August 1959 – 15 July 2023) was a Dutch cinematographer and film director. Born in Tilburg, he lived in Amsterdam since 1982. He received highest honours for international documentaries at the ''Sundance Festival'' a ...

. The documentary was released on 24 November 2004 as the opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). The documentary is the continuation of '' Eye of the Day'' and follows again the family Sjamsuddin, consisting of three generations living in the slums of

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

Writers

*Leonard Retel Helmrich *Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich

Awards

*''VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary'' -

Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...

*''Sundance World Documentary Award for Best Documentary'' -

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

Muhammad Fiaz

External links

* Dutch documentary films 2004 films 2000s Indonesian-language films 2004 documentary films Documentary films about families Sundance Film Festival award-winning films Documentary films about Indonesia Films directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich {{bio-documentary-film-stub