There Will Never Be Peace on Stolen Land is a medium-length participatory documentary that centers the Mollo indigenous community of West Timor as they confront the ongoing dispossession of their ancestral lands. Told through the lived experiences of three generations of women — a grandmother who led anti-mining protests through traditional weaving, a mother who defends local food sovereignty against state-imposed monocultures, and a granddaughter navigating contemporary challenges such as malnutrition, ultra-processed foods, and educational inequity — the film offers an intimate and urgent portrait of cultural resilience.

 

Co-created by Vietnamese filmmaker Chi (director) and West Timorese food activist and poet Dicky (producer), the documentary emerges from within the community’s existing cultural movement, lakoat.kujawas. Children and youth are directly engaged in the filmmaking process through workshops, creative writing, and multimedia contributions, ensuring a truly collaborative and reciprocal process. At its core, the film is a testimony to indigenous resistance, memory, and care — a collective act of reclaiming narrative and place.

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Images provided by Dicky Senda. 
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