In a village in Bali, ten-year-old Tantri and her twin brother Tantra are inseparable best friends who steal eggs from the family offerings and play together under the moon. Then Tantra falls gravely ill. As he lies in a hospital bed, his body failing, Tantri retreats into the magical, parallel worlds the two of them have always shared. By night she dresses in costume and paints her body, dances with the moon and the animals of the rice fields, and speaks to her brother in the only language that still reaches him. The boundary between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen, dissolves, and she begins, in her own way, to say goodbye.

Drawing on the Balinese philosophy of sekala and niskala, the visible and invisible worlds that exist side by side, Kamila Andini’s second feature is a film of extraordinary stillness and beauty, told almost entirely through movement, ritual and the faces of its two young non-professional leads. Supported by the Doha Film Institute, it premiered in Platform at Toronto before winning the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus jury at the Berlinale, Best Youth Feature at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the Golden Hanoman at Jogja-NETPAC. A quietly devastating portrait of childhood grief, and one of the most original Indonesian films of its decade.