Kanya Iwana , an Indonesian multidisciplinary artist making her feature directorial debut, has “ Ibu ” selected for the JAFF Future Project, about three generations of women wrestling with inherited identity in 2011 Yogyakarta.

The Indonesia-U.S. co-production, directed by Iwana and produced by Zack Rice through production company Feed You Films, is among 10 titles selected for the JAFF Future Project at this year’s JAFF Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

“Ibu” follows Maya, a formidable Javanese woman who once dreamed of becoming a writer but subsumed her ambitions under obligation and tradition. Now a widow, she parents through manipulation disguised as protection, resenting her daughters for chasing freedoms she was taught she could never claim.

Her eldest daughter Tash fled to Lo

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