Discoveries from Indonesia World Cinema

A student who has just transferred to a new junior high school feels anxious about meeting classmates whose religion and cultural background are different from their own.

A wife prepares iftar, but a shocking discovery about her husband and the caregiver leaves the family in an awkward, tense silence as they break their fast together.

The film tells the story of a man trapped in his own thoughts, so detached from the outside world that he struggles to truly live. One day, a strange phenomenon occurs—his body begins changing into unusual colors, which turn out to reflect the city of Moscow. This forces him to explore the city, leading him to confront his own mind and gain a new understanding of himself.

Udin, a Betawi boy who loves painting, dreams of joining a competition. But his father insists he practice pencak silat like other boys his age, unaware that Udin is being bullied at the training center.

Semi-documentary film, about logging. Both the procedures and the problem of wood theft. Tells the love story between Parta, a logging officer and Anna, a nurse.

A boy is told by his dying father that he can inherit the family business only if he finds a new chicken mascot for the company's logo printed on the soy sauce bottles. But his quest becomes a nightmare as his father's assistant does everything he can to stop him from becoming heir.

Through the lens of faiths and cultures in seven provinces in Indonesia, this documentary follows individuals who strive to address climate change.

Benny runs away from home and takes his father’s fortune, in retaliation for his father remarrying, and neglecting his first wife until she dies. He buys a villa in the village and befriends a pair of siblings who has also run away from their family for the sake of freedom. They live from stealing and blackmailing. Then there is Iis and Lydia, recent graduates from high school. Iis succeeds on becoming a singer while Lydia, who is about to be married off by her father to relieve debt, chooses to become a nightclub singer. Benny falls in love with Lydia. He stalks Lydia who is about to elope with her boyfriend. When the boyfriend is murdered and Lydia loses her eyesight, Benny redeems himself by helping Lydia with her treatment. He marries her even though Lydia is blind. After she is sure of her husband’s kindness, she agrees to have her eyes treated.

Three friends are on a trip to fulfill their college assignments. After they had finished their goal and were about to go home, one of them disappeared. In the midst of the search, two friends who have known each other for a long time are forced to recognize each other again.

A documentary filmmaker team is haunted by a series of supernatural events while working on a documentary about the urban legend "Mama Minta Hotspot".

Ronny is dating Lia, a new student in his school. Apparently, Lia is the daughter of Indrasukma, brother of Sandra, who is the wife of Nico, Ronny’s brother. Lia lives at Ronny’s house. Indrasukma refuses to acknowledge his sister, Sandra, after she refuses the man he had chosen for her to marry and instead eloped with Nico. Indra strictly prohibits Lia to date Ronny. So Ronny finally runs off with Lia. He is dismissed from school as a consequence. His friends demonstrate over the dismissal. Riot occurs. Nico is injured and taken to the hospital. This is when Indra realises his mistake and accepts Sandra again.

Herman and Mira are young lovers who have premarital sex. Mira becoming pregnant but Herman's family disapproves. Herman's father, aunt and some others try to stop the impending marriage and end up accidentally killing Mira. The unjustly slain girl doesn't find peace in death and her spirit rises up for vengeance. One by one, she kills her murderers.

Maniwak examines marriage among the Maniwak people of Papua, revealing how tradition and modernity collide in shaping gender roles. Through intimate observation, the film captures a fragile balance where custom, desire, and change intertwine.

This is a story about Bimo and Arimbi. They share their future, about uncertainty, and how their life after swearing to each other forever.

Jason wants to tell Nadia how he feels, but she only has eyes for Ryan, the school’s star. But as her fairytale romance turns complicated and her home life grows unbearable, Nadia begins to wonder if the love she’s been looking for has been beside her all along.

THE ECHOES OF HOME

Plot under wraps.

The story of Ruth Dewayani who is obsessed with working at the post office, and finding happiness and making use of it in the workplace. The post box for God made Ruth's life colorful.

When Raka gets caught in a wild police chase, he agrees to help a fugitive escape—on the condition that the culprit repents for his mistakes.

Tina, a fifth grade elementary school student lives with his father, Tono. She busks in the streets to earn the admission fee needed for junior high school. When Tina is singing on the street, she meets a record producer, Aswin, who is fascinated by Tina’s dance style. Then Tina and Tono are evicted from their rented house. Tina is entrusted to her grandmother who also lives with her two children, Mak Wecek and Opang. Mak Wecek and her daughter, lvi, are upset with Tina, for receiving more attention from grandma. Tina is then invited to join the Lenong Bocah group. Then the group performs at a birthday party for Aswin’s son. Aswin immediately asks Tina for a recording. Tina's album becomes a huge success. Tina is now wealthy, as well as Mak Wecek who becomes Tina’s manager.

This film is the first fairly long film from Green Project Production which in 2016 was still called Project 17. This film was never finished. This film tells the story of Leandy's life who is fighting for Aisah's love while helping Dimas and Ical in the diamond buying and selling business. It turns out, it's all just a trap from the greedy mafia Boss Yayan and Koh Febri. Will Leandy, Dimas, and Ical be able to fight them in the end?

Vino (Maxime Bouttier) is upset that her parents agreed to move from Jakarta to Ciwidey, Bandung without asking her approval. Vino's irritation changed when he accidentally saw a beautiful girl with a classic style called Girl (Agatha Chelsea) was walking alone in the middle of the night. But at first glance, the woman immediately disappeared in the fog. The girl was found close to a forest ranger named Bagas (Billy Davidson). They've been friends since childhood. Vino hopes to get back to the Girl, but the beautiful woman is never seen during the day. Girls actually leave the house when everyone is sleeping. Vino was forced to fight the cold of night, in order to meet him. But Dada (Yudha Keling), a classmate of Vino, said that Vino likes the wrong person. Girls are known as strange women. Plus there is Bagas who so understand about the girl, to the warmth that she gave the girl comfortable. Together Bagas, Girls like the Moon is always accompanied Stars in the dark night.

The story begins when Lupus moved to new high school "Merah Putih". There he met with Poppy (Acha Septriasa) and immediately fell in love with the girl. But Poppie've got another lover, Daniel (Kevin Julio). At the new school, Lupus meet unique new friends, like Gusur(Jeremy Christian), strange artist who has aspirations to buy a house for his grandpa who had been living in with my sister-in-law. While Poppy busy with his business, Lupus and his companions planned to join the race "go green" that held the Ministry despite opposition by the high school Principal.

Rhoma, aka Budi, a vagabond again, is hit by a motorcyclist on a rainy day. Budi is taken back by friends and treated. Meanwhile, Ani finally finds the sick Budi. They then meet often causing Surya to become suspicious and he finally catches them together at Budi’s place. Ani is forced home. Budi urges his friends to stop playing music on the street like beggars. He becomes a taxi driver while some of his friends sell newspapers or work as construction workers. Then Budi disguises himself with a thick moustache and sunglasses and goes to Ani’s house as a piano teacher. Now Ani and Budi can be together freely in her house. Meanwhile, a taxi passenger hears Budi singing to himself and offers musical instruments that he just bought. Budi forms a dangdut (traditional Indonesian music) group with his friends and calls it Soneta, which quickly gains success.

Benyamin, a laundryman and lenong player, is a neighbor of Mimin, a widow who lives with her sister Aida. The noisy lenong practice activities often cause the two neighbors to quarrel, although they later make peace. Meanwhile, Benyamin falls in love with Ellya, an old spinster, the daughter of Mr. Hamid, the owner of the rented house where Benyamin lives. This relationship is not approved by Mr. Hamid who considers lenong players to be lowly in dignity. When Mr. Hamid begins to have a crush on Mimin, Benyamin uses this as a weapon to soften Mr. Hamid's heart.

An evil wizard unleashes a legion of worms on an innocent village. These worms can burrow into the skin and take control of the person. Later in the film, the infected people become sex-crazed zombies and then an army to help protect the evil magician from a good wizard.

Desi travels to Jakarta to look for her husband. She meets Minah and asks for her help. As Minah talks to her own husband about Desi, what she doesn't know is that they are both sharing the same men.

Imam falls in love with Naira, a violinist who owns a shelter for street children. Imam called her "Humaira" like the Prophet Muhammad's nickname for Siti Aisyah. Mamak disapproves of the relationship because Naira works at a nightclub.

Loma is a junior high school student who wants to run for scout team leader, but many people don't believe him and even insult him because he is the son of a corruptor.

One day, a grandmother asked her grandchild to delete the contacts of people who had passed away from her old, worn-out cell phone..

Mikha is a nail artist who is very passionate about her work. She works so hard that she sometimes forgets to spend time with her family. She wishes her husband could have more time for the family, so that her child doesn't need to be taken care of by his mother all the time. They argued a lot about who should take care of their children. Mikha feels that her nail art studio is not suitable for her child's growth. She wanted her daughter's life to be better than the bitter stories of her clients.

Asmara is already in love with Sanusi. But her father, Rasyid, accepts Sumantri’s proposal to marry Asmara with his son, Harun. Enraged by this match, Asmara says that she wants to be a mermaid and she runs away with Sanusi.

Biba, a low-paid teacher, and Rizky, a struggling wedding videographer, are caught in a family sabotage of a lavish wedding, obsessed with showing off and hoping for a fat envelope. Their dream of a simple wedding is threatened, and the future of their marriage is at stake.

A Sumatran elephant calf is being hunted for smuggling. This incident caught the attention of five children who were camping nearby. Tensions rise when elephant hunters target the five children. In the dense forest, they have to self-report by car. When they arrived in the city, they secretly took the Sumatran elephant calf into the freight train. The five children had the courage to save the Sumatran elephant calf from the elephant hunters.

Gloria Simbiak, a swimming athlete, has to fight her way out of the labyrinth of depression due to loss of leg function which for a swimmer is like losing a life. The days were filled with sorrow and deep wounds. Gloria felt that the victory she had previously achieved and was within her grasp, becoming a gold medalist athlete in the swimming Olympics, had become useless. Gloria tries to get through the days that will never be the same, to move on or stop and regret it with grandmother Isy and her three best friends, Julvri, Idho and Eliza.

A family goes on a road trip and sparks various conversations along the way in their car.

Arya Dwipangga (Baron Hermanto) is disturbing the kingdom of Majapahit in order to wreak revenge on Kamandanu (Sandy Nayoan), while the kingdom assumes that the troublemaker if Mpu Bajil (Wingky Haroen), who is preoccupied with learning the teachings of Aji Segara Geni. As a part of this training, he has already bathed in the blood of seven child descendents of warriors. He is now planning to kidnap the nephew of Kamandanu, Panji (Sawung Sembadha), the child of Dwipangga and Ratih (see Tutur Tinular). A battle ensues between Bajil and Kamandanu, who has been instructed by the king to bring back Bajil’s head.

Lady falls victim to her great-grandmother's pact with the devil. The agreement to get rich again, by taking the fetus of his offspring through Romy, Lady's husband, who is far from God. The devil possessed Romy to take the fetus he was carrying. Lady tries to run. Lady meets her old friend Marwan who is a cleric who is a ruqyah expert.

The opening day of Tea Shop "Yang Bercerita" will be the day that will change the story of Arissa's friendship with Kania and Arissa-Ezra's imperfect love.

Kuntoro, aka Kun, is friends with Junaidi, aka Jun. They share their daily lives in a rented room where they obsess about becoming famous film stars, though they only have cameo roles. Kun fancies Mona who is rich and kind, but he does not have the courage to confess his love. One day at the shoot, Kun meets a film star, Sheila. Slowly they become friends and Sheila starts to like Kun. One day, when they have no work as extras, Sheila comes bringing food. Sheila also offers them work as extras in a film with Chyntiara Alona. Sheila also offers them a job as salesmen for sex related products supplied by Koh Acun. Kun becomes the seller and Jun acts as a transvestite and they manage to sell some products. From then on, using the same strategy, they manage to become successful in selling aphrodisiacs.

At his mother's request, a university student returns to his home on the island of Sumba, where questions about his late father come to light.

Some youngsters cajole a couple of their friends to help in their attempt to make a documentary about a dancer who disappeared and was said to have been murdered, and whose body was never found. Rumors abound, causing much of the village where she lived to become deserted. After getting a lead from an oddball villager, they decide to break into the house which is said to be the site of the murder. What they find there is much more than they ever could have bargained for...

On the last day. A man in a robe comes to a field with two masked men accompanying him. Meanwhile, 5 masked female dancers in the field are curious about the man in the robe. And consider him as a savior.

Adjeng lives alone in an apartment paid for by her boyfriend, a rich businessman. A writer of children's stories, she wishes to write short stories for adults; in this, she is mentored by Asmoro with whom she is also having sex. Meanwhile, Adjeng's mothe handles various aspects of her life, constantly calling her and making surprise visits. This has led Adjeng's friends, Venny and Andien, to tease her about her overbearing mother.

While holidaying in Bogor, Indah meets Pandu and they both fall in love. Their brief time together ends and Indah needs to return to her life in Jakarta.

A warrior and his monkey companion put an end to the reign of a psychopathic and brutal despot after entering a village under his thumb.

A child who excels in sports commits theft in the self-buying snack stall because of her cunningness.

Drawing from the novel, lenong (play) and the previous film (Njai Dasima I), this new film version has heightened erotic scenes considered the boldest for its time. But as mentioned by the director, the eroticism is meant to reveal the psychological aspects of the characters. Unlike the previous version, that mainly highlights conflict between love and witchcraft, this one features social and psychological conflicts. For example, how Dasima feels like an outsider with Edward Williams’s friends, or how she prefers leaving their house to live with her maid in the village. It also shows more background of the Samiun and Hayati characters - Samiun is a black market trader with a lot of debts and Hayati is a woman obsessed with gambling to get rich. When his debts are due and he is unable to pay, Samiun asks his friend, Puasa, to “rob” him while he is returning to their village with Dasima.

Nina was forced to move to a new school for girls because her mother Cynthia had just married a rich businessman. Nina has to deal with the Sweetheart gang, a collection of three of the most beautiful and popular girls in her school, Imel, Fifi and Cherry. Is Nina willing to sell all of her life principles for the sake of popularity at school. Will the world with all its bitterness finally change Nina?

In her childhood, Riana lived in a small town with her father and her mother who ran a funeral house business. A disaster required them move to Uncle Johan's house in Jakarta and Riana meets with Riani doll. Riana grows up and one day got visited by Mrs. Klara, a counselor-teacher in her school who wants to know why Riana has not attended school and suggests Riana rehabilitated. Disasters take place to Riana's parents. Mrs. Klara comes again with Hendro, Lusi and Anggi, to help Riana socialize. But, their presence triggers a bigger problem; a vicious creature of the past ia released and terrorize them all.

On one night, two friends could not finish their college essays because they are too distracted by a bomb found in the parking lot.

Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali. The soundtrack is a live recording of eight Gamelan musicians playing the bronze and wooden instruments of Indonesia during the projection of the film. balifilm is a personal, lyrical observation and expression of the creative pulse of an extraordinary culture.

Anna is a private tutor for Frans' two children who have just lost their mother. The mistress of the house died from being poisoned by Renita, her own younger sister. There she was seduced by Danny, Frans' brother-in-law who she initially rejected. However, love began to grow when Danny moved to Jakarta. Unfortunately, their letters were hijacked by Renita. Then there was also a declaration of love from Frans who eventually also died from Renita's poison.

Arif and Yati, an old couple who are celebrating their anniversary by trying to make a remake photos when he proposed to her in a specific spot in Borobudur Temple.