CAIRO: The Townhouse Gallery will screen a documentary directed by Dutch filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich on Tuesday December 13 at 7:00 P.M. His documentary movie "Position Among the Stars" is about one family of three generations, confronting globalization in Indonesia. The film was inspired by the director's contact with the Shamshudin family living in the slums in Jakarta during a time when the country was shaking off the rule of their former president Suhararto. In the movie, grandmother Rumidjah, openly Christian, left the bustle of Jakarta to live in the countryside. But when her adolescent, smart granddaughter Tari turns out to be too much for her son, Bakti, to handle, Bakti requests his mother to return to the city slums to provide the girl with a sense of values and purpose in life. The film discusses the new generation gap in an increasingly more open and democratic society and how this affects the life of a single family, along with their dreams and aspirations.
