{"id":2454,"date":"2026-06-18T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:37:32","slug":"my-own-last-supper-eyes-chinese-market-after-shanghai-film-festival-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Own Last Supper\u2019 Eyes Chinese Market After Shanghai Film Festival Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cMy Own Last Supper,\u201d an Indonesian film about the Chinese diaspora, is eyeing a Chinese theatrical release after its world premiere in competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2452\">Israeli Director Nadav Lapid on Cultural Boycott Backlash, Support From Natalie Portman and the Future of Political Cinema: \u2018I\u2019ll Keep Trying to Touch the Fire\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tProducer Lyza Anggraheni said the production team is actively seeking Chinese distribution partners, with the film designed from the outset to reach mainland audiences.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe knew this would be a pioneering film focusing on Chinese-Indonesians,\u201d said Anggraheni. \u201cThe production team is currently working hard to connect with Chinese film distributors, hoping to bring this movie officially to the Chinese market, as the film was inherently made to pass down and share the story of Chinese-Indonesians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe ambition comes as Chinese diaspora stories enjoy a moment in the spotlight, following the runaway success of \u201cDear You\u201d at the local box office. But for non-Chinese nationality filmmakers, the absence of a shared language remains an obstacle \u2013 one that \u201cMy Own Last Supper\u201d confronts head-on.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDirector Ismail Basbeth addressed the tension at a Q&amp;A that at times oscillated between three languages: Chinese, English and Bahasa Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cLanguage is a political tool, but at the same time, it is also our culture. That is why we were confused [during production]. Do we need to [make the film] in Indonesian first, or [should we shoot in] Chinese language first? And which dialect of Chinese? Hakka? Hokkien?\u201d said Basbeth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=2449\">\u2018The Naturalist\u2019 Series Adaptation in the Works at ABC From \u2018CSI\u2019 Alums (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe need some universal tool or someways to connect us all, but at the same time, embracing our roots and identity, and cinema is a way we do that. I believe cinema is a language too,\u201d said Basbeth.<br \/>Even without a shared language, cast and crew were eager to demonstrate ancestral links with China.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAs a third-generation Chinese-Indonesian, I wanted to showcase the real-life situations and experiences of Chinese-Indonesians living locally,\u201d said Chen.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI lived in the era in the 90s and now in the 2020s so I experience all of the life as a Chinese born in Indonesia, so it means so much for me, to represent the Chinese people who live in Indonesia,\u201d said Chen.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe couched reference to the racial violence of the late 90s marks the ambivalent relationship that Indonesian Chinese have with their own country, which subjected them to forced assimilation and cultural bans in the past. 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