Screen, a popular film star who is bored with his career and wants to make a musical theater set in a family history that is always related to Indonesian film history. The screen is in the process of creating works, making it imaginable in the form of various characters, from great-grandfathers, grandfathers, to fathers. The entire story is told through diary-based narratives, ...
This film dwells on a Papuan teenage boy (Arnold, 15 years), who meets a woman at the port and is obsessed by a desire to kiss her. At the same time, his father (Bertold, 41 years), an activist and a cassowary dance instructor, is being hunted down by some unknown people because of his political activities to demand justice for the detention of Theys Eluay, chairman of the Papu...
This film is about one Indonesian hero, the first bishop in Indonesia named Soegijapranata SJ during the period of Pacific War (1940-1949). The story itself will be focused on the variety of human stories during the war (the Indonesian civilians, Indonesian fighters, and also Dutch and Japanese soldier) with him as the connecting line between each story. Through their stories, ...
Recruits to a radical Islamic organisation are blindfolded before being taken to a contact address. So starts this look behind the scenes of a phenomenon that cannot be discussed. The filmmaker received a visit from the head of counter terrorism. A sensitive film.
In contemporary Indonesia, religious radicalisation is playing an increasingly important role. The banned Indonesia...
A woman in the frame’s foreground watches events unfolding in a room. Suddenly, hitherto hidden by her figure, her double enters the scene, and catastrophe ensues. Is this a tricky horror-mystery-thriller by Dario Argento or Brian De Palma No, it is the extraordinary, unexpected gesture of Indonesian master Garin Nugroho marrying his penchant for other-worldly fantasy with myr...