WUK
Achmad Rezi Fahlevie | Indonesia | 2026 | National Film | 20:00
Trailer

Synopsis

Ulfah, a young mother, faces a painful choice when her mother and husband insist on circumcising her baby daughter as part of their tradition. Though she grew up within the same culture, Ulfah refuses to follow the practice and fights to protect her child’s rights. As family tensions rise, she must navigate the fragile line between standing by her principles and preserving her family’s unity. WUK explores the intimate and complex struggles of tradition, autonomy, and resistance.

Director

Achmad Rezi Fahlevie

WUK explores the persistence of female genital mutilation (FGM) within the intimacy of family and tradition. The film stages violence as it is quietly normalized—through silence, gestures of care, and inherited beliefs—turning everyday spaces into charged arenas of tension. Using silhouette imagery and visual metaphors, I dramatize the erasure and invisibility of women’s voices, allowing trauma and conflict to be felt as if performed on a stage rather than explicitly shown. Color functions as an emotional and symbolic language, painting the psychological landscape of the characters and marking the dramatic tension between tradition and bodily autonomy. WUK does not claim to offer clear answers, but invites audiences into a theatrical reflection on how tradition operates on women’s bodies, and how questioning it becomes an act of resistance.