Yono, or Mbah Jhiwo (ancient soul), a Kawa Ijen sulfur miner, sees his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. Trapped like Sisyphus into an eternal retorn, Yono will face similar events that mutate in appearance as his believes move from animism to Islam and capitalism. An ethnofiction that explores otherness and questions the myth of progress in the neocolonial reality of the South Seas.
Original Title: Mbah Jhiwo
International Title: Ancient Soul
Duration: 91 min
Language: Osing
Cast: Yono Aris Munandar / Sayu Kholif / Achamd Efendi / Nurussalam / Roni HIdayat / Saena’h
Director: Alvaro Gurrea
Assistant Director: Yopie Nugraha
Production Manager: Nurussalam
Production Designer: Carolina Diez-Cascon
Editor: Manuel Muñoz Rivas
Direct sound: Tommy Tomjar
Sound Designer: Alejandra Molina
Special Collaboration: Aleix Fernandez
Year of Production: 2021
World Premiere: Berlinale Forum 2021
Theaters Release: 27 May 2022
Production Company: MY DEER Films / CANTIC Films
Producers: Rocio Mesa / Alvaro Gurrea
