Shape of the Moon is a Dutch/Indonesian documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 from 2004 directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director of Indo descent. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982...

. The documentary released on 24 November 2004 as opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam).

The documentary is the continuation of Eye of the Day

Eye of the Day

Eye of the Day is a Dutch/Indonesian documentary from 2001 directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 1 March 2001.The documentary is the start of a trilogy and follows the family Sjamsuddin, existing of three generations in the slums of Jakarta Indonesia...

and follows again the family Sjamsuddin, existing of three generations in the slums of Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

 Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

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Awards

• VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary - Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
• Sundance World Documentary Award for Best Documentary - Sundance Film Festival