Name: Film | Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
Start: 2025-10-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-17T20:45:00-04:00
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Film | Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

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A widow poisons the gang of bandits who assaulted her and stole her cattle. She then sets off on a journey of redemption, but all the while, she totes the bandit leader’s head as a trophy.
A festival hit from Cannes to Toronto to Busan and everywhere in between, this “thoroughly enjoyable, visually ravishing feminist Western” (Lisa Nesselson, Screen International) is set in the beautifully rugged landscape of Indonesia’s Sumba Island. Director Mouly Surya mixes Sumba Island’s unique local culture with touchstones ranging from Caravaggio to Sergio Leone’s “Spaghetti Westerns,” creating one of Indonesia’s most talked-about films.
Surya’s latest feature, This City is a Battlefield, plays on October 19.
Director: Mouly Surya. Country: Indonesia. Released: 2017. Length: 93 min. Format: DCP. Language: Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles.
Image courtesy of Asian Shadows