LANTING

Leleng

Logline
A tree, a woman and a mother’s sacrifice to make her world a better place for her descendant, in the hand of a human who serves as a guardian and a care taker of their world.

Synopsis
Leleng, one of 'tree mothers' of the barren forest, is taking her last measures before being separated from her last descendant by the old forest guardian. Her hope is drifting with her cries, along with the hoarse voice of a hornbill.

Progress
Distribution

Director Statement

We as humans, have been too greedy to take everything from mother nature. In the last decade, the imbalance of the nature has been the main issues from every corner of the world. Also there are many natural disasters that follows. The outcomes are many populations were divided by the optimists and the pessimists. Change is needed. While we are on the optimists side, we believe that the nature itself has the power to heal itself. Furthermore if the humans also participated in the

healing process. Leleng is derived from a Borneo traditional song on dancing for friendship rituals. Leleng in this story became the mediator with her body language and the sound that follows for the human and nature. She is pictured as one of the realization of mother nature herself, a mother tree who would sacrifice everything

she has for the beginning of a new life.

Credits
Director
Zaenal Abidin

Producer
Firman Widyasmara

Sound and Audio Director
Zaenal Abidin

Animation
Andre Febriadi

Damar Arini

Zaenal Abidin

Editor
Firman Widyasmara

Concept Art
Zaenal Abidin

Storyboard
Zaenal Abidin

Zahra Violetta Wulandari

Special Thanks
Nurrahma Fadhila Salam

This film idea was presented in
Akatara Indonesian Film Financing Forum (Jakarta)