Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time (Pesta Babi)

One quiet morning in July, Yasinta Moiwend watched a giant ship dock at her village in South Papua. It carried hundreds of excavators under military escort, the first of 2,000 heavy machines sent for Indonesia’s national food and palm-oil biodiesel projects.

Produced by Papuan journalist Victor Mambor’s Jubi and directed by Dandhy Dwi Laksono, the film follows the Marind, Awyu, Yei and Muyu peoples as their customary forests are cleared, and traces the networks of officials, oligarchs and corporations who profit. Attempts to stop screenings in Indonesia helped it reach millions of viewers.