The Sea Calls For Me

By Tumpal Tampubolon

Indonesia | In Indonesian with English subtitles | 2021 | 17 min 25 sec | PG13 (Brief Coarse Language)

Singapore Premiere

A young boy named Sura lives alone in a fishing village. He earns a meagre wage from selling fish while waiting for his father’s return. One day, he finds a broken sex doll washed ashore and tries to fix it. The Sea Calls for Me tells a moving story about the universal human longing for connection.

The Sea Calls for Me won the Sonje Award for Best Asian Short Film at the Busan International Film Festival (2021).

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Tumpal Tampubolon (b. 1978, Indonesia) wrote his first screenplay, The Last Believer, which won the Best Short Fiction award in the Script Development Competition at the Jakarta International Film Festival in 2005. Tumpal was selected for the Asian Young Filmmakers Forum in Jeonju in 2007, the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2009, and the Asian Film Academy in Busan in 2010. In 2014, he won a prestigious Citra Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tabula Rasa.