Love for Share

Although forbidden by Indonesia's constitution, many in the world's most populous Muslim country openly practice polygamy. Love for Share is a timely political drama with humorous touches that explores the lives of three Jakartan women in polygamist households: Salma, an independent Arab-Indonesian gynaecologist torn between her Muslim faith and feelings of betrayal upon discovering her husband's secret wife; Siti, a country girl who moves into a poor Javanese household and falls in love with another wife; and Ming, a young Chinese-Indonesian waitress who dumps her filmmaker boyfriend for the promise of luxury as her bosses' second wife.

Tackling a rarely discussed aspect of female sexuality, Indonesia's leading female director Nia Dinata (who directed the first Indonesian gay screen kiss in The Gathering) offers a non-judgmental feminist look at the realities of polygamy for contemporary women.

Kyle Stephan