The Netherlands selected director Ena Sendijarević's as its entry for this year's Academy Awards.
The film takes place in the dying days of Dutch rule in Indonesia and
focusses on the fallout when a sugar plantation owner dies and leaves his
estate to the illegitimate son he fathered with his Indonesian
housekeeper.
Renée Soutendijk, Hayati Azis, Lisa Zweerman, Verdi Solaiman and Peter Faber star.
Sweet Dreams opens for an exclusive theatrical run at New York City's Metrograph
on April 12th and has its streaming premiere on Metrograph At Home, where
it will be available for an exclusive one-month engagement. A UK/ROI
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Set on an Indonesian island in the waning years of Dutch colonialism, Ena Sendijarević’s sophomore feature is a stingingly sardonic satire observing decadence and moral decay on a sugar plantation, which is thrown into turmoil when, following the decease of its patriarch, it’s revealed that he willed the estate to his illegitimate son with his Indigenous housekeeper. A gorgeously shot study of truly ugly human behavior.
