The Mirror Never Lies

(2011)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 112 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2011

Runtime: 100 мин

Country: Indonesia

Director: Kamila Andini

Cast: Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza Rahadian, Gita Novalista, Eko, Inal, Zainal, Kuasi, Halwiyah, Baharudin, Ende

Plot

A small island is inhabited by members of the Bajo tribe, a nomadic fishing community of the Wakatobi Islands. After her father is lost at sea, twelve-year-old Pakis keeps treasuring the mirror he gave her, hoping that (according to Bajo belief) he will return and appear reflected in it. Then a young man comes into her life, threatening conflict between Pakis and her mother.

When Pakis (Gita Novalista), a 12-year-old girl from the Bajo tribe in Wakatobi district, wakes up before sunrise, she immediately takes a canoe and goes to Sandoro's place, a fortune teller in her area, with her friend Lumo (Eko). Sandoro performed a ritual using a mirror, where the surrounding community believed that with a mirror they could see what they were waiting for. But the ritual failed, Pakis could not find the shadow of the person she was waiting for the most, her father.