The Silent Path (2024)

Journalist and documentarian Yonri Soesanto Revolt (Mayday! May day! Mayday!, IFFR 2023) returns to IFFR with The Silent Path, an unassuming, composite portrait of Father Bert Hagendoorn, a Dutch missionary who worked for fifty years in the autonomous Indonesian province of Papua. Given the name Soebertono Mote by his hosts, Hagendoorn was involved in several community-oriented projects in the region, at times against the wishes of his diocese, such as when he campaigned for the use of contraceptives to combat the AIDS epidemic.