My Ancestors Were Farmers

The film explores the fading memory of Javanese agrarian culture through the traditional Wiwitan ritual, a ceremonial rice harvest that embodies the spiritual harmony between humans, nature, and ancestral spirits. As modernity encroaches, this sacred practice gradually disappears, taking with it generations of wisdom and ecological connection. Through a poetic and narrative approach, the film revives ancestral energy and transforms nature into a spoken message, adapted from the Wiwitan tradition. More than a visual archive, this cinematic work serves as a gentle act of resistance against forgetting, a call to honor the language of nature and the wisdom of tradition before they vanish completely. By Lucky Wisnu