The Sea Calls for Me

輔 12 +

Tumpal TAMPUBOLON
Indonesia
DCP
2021
Color
18min

Nominees and Awards

Synopsis

Sura lives alone in the fishing village, waiting for his father to return home. One day, he finds a broken sex doll, and he asks Argo to help him fix the doll. He finds a companion and a surrogate parent in the doll. But this companionship is threatened by Argo, who wants to take it away from Sura.

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Tumpal TAMPUBOLON

Tumpal TAMPUBOLON is a cinephile-turned-filmmaker based in Jakarta. His first screenplay, The Last Believer, won the JiFFest Script Development Competition for Best Short Fiction. He has been selected to the Asian Young Filmmakers Forum, Berlinale Talent Campus, and Asian Film Academy. In 2014, he won the Citra Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tabula Rasa.