Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme in Onze Tijd

Genre: Documentary
Open: 16:15 - 18:00 hrs
Tickets: € 0

Pesta Babi (95 min) depicts how virgin forest in South Papua is being cleared for sugarcane, rice, and palm oil plantations, ostensibly to ensure national food and energy security. Papuan communities are being driven from their homes, their forests and living environments are being destroyed, and their cultural heritage is being erased.

The title refers to a local Muyu tradition, the Pig Festival. This is a ceremony in which pigs play an important social and cultural role and demonstrates the bond between the Papuans, their land, and their traditions. At the same time, the title serves as an ironic metaphor. Corporations and those in power profit from Papua’s wealth while bearing none of the consequences.

Directed by journalist Dandhy Dwi Laksono en antropoloog Cypri Jehan Paju Dale.

This is a free screening.

Doors open: 15:45

Film start: 16:15