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From today's featured article Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet! (released internationally as They Say I'm a Monkey!) is a 2008 Indonesian film directed by Djenar Maesa Ayu. Starring Titi Rajo Bintang, Henidar Amroe, and Ray Sahetapi, it tells the life story of Adjeng, who was sexually abused as a child by her mother's boyfriend. Filmed over 18 days after several years of development, the film adapted two of Ayu's short stories from her debut anthology of the same name. Owing to its low budget of Rp 620 million, its cast and crew were mostly amateurs and students, although several established actors appeared at reduced rates. Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet! has been described as "anti-Sjuman" because of the disparity between Ayu's more personal directing style and the social realism of her father, Sjumandjaja. Although commercially unsuccessful, the film was well received by critics. It won five national-level awards and was screened at several international film festivals. Two Indonesian publications, Tempo and The Jakarta Post, selected it as among the best films of 2008. (Full article...) Recently featured: Rufous-crowned sparrow Falstaff (opera) Steve Bruce Did you know... Minaret next to the Malé Friday Mosque ... that the minaret adjoining the Malé Friday Mosque has a wide base like a ship's funnel and resembles a wedding cake? ... that Maria Corsini, Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi? ... that the Huawei Ascend P7 smartphone has been noted for its high-resolution front camera and slow processor? ... that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe? ... that Edvard Munch's painting Love and Pain sold for more than US$38 million in 2008? ... that Ismail Pasha al-Azm laid the foundations for the Azm family's political dominance in Damascus during Ottoman rule? ... that a ban on women Shinto priests ended after World War II? ... that during the American Revolution, Loyalist spy Joseph Bettys failed in his mission to capture General Philip Schuyler because he left his unit and went off to visit his girlfriend?

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Today's featured picture The Grimsel Pass is a mountain pass in Switzerland which crosses the Bernese Alps at an elevation of 2,164 metres (7,100 ft). It connects the Haslital, the upper valley of the river Aare, with the upper valley of the Rhone. A 38-kilometre (24 mi) paved road between Gletsch and Meiringen follows the pass; owing to high snowfall, this road is generally closed between October and May. Photograph: Heinrich Pniok Recently featured: Igorot man Church of St. John at Kaneo IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth

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