Raphael Wregas Bhanuteja is an Indonesian film director and

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. In 2016, Wregas became the first Indonesian director to win an award at

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, for his short film ''

Prenjak ''Prenjak'' is an Indonesian short film, written and directed by Wregas Bhanuteja. In 2016, it became the first Indonesian film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Cast The film stars Rosa Winenggar as Diah, Yohanes Budyambara as Jarwo, ...

''.

Biography

Wregas Bhanuteja was born in

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and learned short film making in De Britto College High School Yogyakarta. After graduating high school in 2010, he attended the Faculty of Film and TV, Jakarta Institute of Arts, majoring in film directing. During his study, Wregas produced several short films, including ''Senyawa'' (2012), shot on 16 mm celluloid film. In 2014, Wregas graduated from Jakarta Institute of Arts with his final project, a short film called ''Lemantun'' (2014) about a cupboard inherited by his grandmother. Lemantun attained several best short film awards, namely in XXI Short Film Festival 2015 and Indonesian Film Appreciation 2015. In 2015, Wregas' short film Lembusura (2014), about the eruption of Mount Kelud, made into selection in the 65th

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2015, competing in the section of Berlinale Shorts Competition. Wregas was named the youngest director in the festival at only 22 years old. After Berlin, he made another short film called ''The Floating Chopin'' (2015), an interpretation of the song Chopin Larung by Guruh Soekarno Putra. In 2016, Wregas, in collaboration with Studio Batu Yogyakarta, wrote and directed ''Prenjak/In The Year Of Monkey'' (2016), a story of a woman who sells lighter in Yogyakarta. ''In The Year Of Monkey'' was selected in the 55th Semaine de la Critique,

2016 and awarded Leica Cine Discovery Prize for short film. This has made Wregas the first Indonesian director to receive an award in Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, Wregas made another short film titled Tak Ada Yang Gila Di Kota Ini/No One Is Crazy In This Town (2019). The film was selected to compete in Wide Angle: Asian Short Film Competition as a part of

Busan International Film Festival The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, previously Pusan International Film Festival, PIFF), held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan (''also'' Pusan), South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festi ...

held 3–12 October 2019 in Busan, South Korea. The film is an adaptation of a short story with the same title by Eka Kurniawan, telling the story of Marwan (cast by Oka Antara) who is instructed to exile people with mental disorders to the woods. Bhanuteja's feature-length directorial debut, ''

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'', is set to premiere at the

26th Busan International Film Festival The 26th Busan International Film Festival opened on October 6 at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea with South Korean film '' Heaven: To the Land of Happiness'' by Im Sang-soo. Park So-dam and Song Joong-ki hosted the opening of the ...

, in October 2021. The film tells the story of Sur, a college student who loses her scholarship as her drunk selfie circulates online.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

References

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