This film talks about today’s Indonesia from different perspectives—economy, politics, arts and culture, society, laws, and history—outlined in several fragments influenced by one another.
When an earthquake occurs in the prison where Julius (35) has been held for the last few years, the warden receives a word from Julius’s village that a tsunami might be coming to his village, located quite far from the prison. Julius receives priority to go home since he still has a mother, Emola...
Juno was just a child when his father abandoned him from their village in Central Java. Abandoned and alone, he joins a Lengger dance centre where men shape their feminine appearance and movement. The sensuality and sexuality that came from the dance, mixed with the violent sociopolitical...
Marsiti is a girl who dreams of winning a bull race. She was trained by her late father and inherited two buffaloes. Upon hearing her mother’s intention to sell the buffaloes to Haji Roni, her father’s rival, Marsiti stole the bulls with the help of her two best friends, Ponidi and Marjuki. The...
With special agreement with his sister, estranged son agree to accompany his strictly religious father on a journey to seek the crescent moon that signals the start of Eid.
Joko Kemala is quit school and works as porter on the shop building to support his daily living cost and his blind father. There he meets Totok Janoko the owner, who is very powerful and exploits him sexually.
It is a legend, shaped by a prolonged of economic crisis, in a country that once was, and its name is Indonesia. Sukab is a dog thief whose family has also become dogs. Sukab targeted dogs wherever he could, hunting down dogs that let their guard down, and would never have guessed how his fate...
Angku Wan, a retired teacher who won a raffle prize from a soap company. With those billions, Angku Wan intends to build a village for the common good. However, before claiming the money, Angku Wan died. The leader and villagers then worked together to devise a plan to claim the prize by faking...
It tells the story of two people who choose to live on slightly different frequencies from other people. Andrea (Dinda Kanyadewi) has a unique and highly specialized job that requires her to work alone from night to morning in a near-empty office building. Leon (Khiva Iskak) is a writer, who goes...
Two thieves are captured by angry neighbours. Although the theft is insignificant (an old TV) people are no less angry, and the punishment is extreme. Basically a crime in itself. A few minutes in the dark woods and their fate is sealed forever. Brief morality play.
Diego, a man with Dwarfism, works as an extra for a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pre-wedding photoshoot project. This photoshoot leads him into an intimate conversation with the bride, who seems to question her decision to marry the prince of her life.
Charlie and Alex is classmate in the elementary school. They have been close friend since they are staying in the same class for 10 years; they continually failed for the next grade. One day, in their way home from the elementary school, they face something terribly scary and changes their life...
Darma finds himself with a camera in Yogja with no plans. Soon Naira attracts his attention. He follows her through the day and night. Soon he discovers that as he follows her, the shadow of his past catches up on him. He at first let it swarm him as he has been for quite a long time, but soon he...
An engaged couple having a lunch in a cafeteria, and we follow their conversation as they go into minute detail about what needs to be organized for the upcoming wedding. This is a glimpse into the life of a modern young people struggling with their parents’ cultural legacy.
