2001 · drama · arthouse · mother-daughter

Whispering Sands

Directed by Nan Triveni Achnas · 1h 46m · 2001

Berlian and her teenage daughter Daya are on the run from political violence. Constantly daydreaming that her absent father will return, young Daya chafes under the stern hand of her mother. Forced to move inland from their seaside home to a desert of constantly shifting sands, the pair settle down to their familiar antagonism. Finally, Daya sees a vaguely familiar face shuffle in from across the wasteland.

Our read: Whispering Sands (2001) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · arthouse · mother-daughter entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.