Director Edwin in vanguard of Indonesia's new wave of filmmakers

The maker of 'Postcards From the Zoo' is among a group that is producing some of the most original cinema seen from his region in years.

HONG KONG — It's a warm, humid day halfway into the city's International Film Festival, and Edwin — a rising Indonesian indie filmmaker with his single name born of tradition rather than manufactured Hollywood artifice — is trying to explain how he shapes the aesthetic of his films. It all begins with a single image.

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