While it sometimes feels like Asia is rushing headlong into AI adoption, very few filmmakers in the region have tackled the emotional implications of the new technology, partly because sci-fi films usually come with higher costs.

But Indonesian drama Mothernet , starring Dian Sastrowardoyo, Ringgo Agus Rahman and Ali Fikry as a close-knit family coping with loss, looks at these issues from several different angles. Director Ho Wi Ding and producer Shanty Harmayn explain that, while the film has flashes of sci-fi, it’s a family drama at its core.

Scripted by Indonesia’s Gina S. Noyer, the film is set in the near future where a father, mother and 16-year-old son are adjusting to their move away from the big city. All seems well until the mother dies suddenly leaving father and son bereft

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