Discoveries from Indonesia World Cinema

A final-year student often mocked for his "weeb scene" lifestyle and his gray jacket, is forced by his friend to adopt a "culture scene" style for the yearbook photoshoot.

The two girls decided to do their daily prayers in the school, but turns out one of them accidentally fell asleep instead. But when she woke up, she felt uneasy with her friend that's undergoing the prayer without her.

Fajar really loves his girlfriend, Bintang, because according to Fajar, his girlfriend is the most perfect woman for him to make happy. Their love story is perfect like a fairy tale. But they have to wake up from the fairy tale and face the real love story that just loving is not enough. One of them must lose their true self and make them as far as the sun and the earth when before they were as close as a palm and a vein.

A short retelling of big events that happened throughout the high school days of class MIPA 3. Made for a senior year project.

Wanderlust refers to the desire to wander, to explore the world, be free, and feel like a stranger in your surroundings. When the wanderlust takes over you, you know that the adventure has begun, but not where or when it ends. And how do you make a documentary without an end? This is one of the questions that directors Cristiana Pecci and Matteo Maggi ponder on his film The Fifth Sun.

Kadir and Doyok come to Jakarta looking for jobs. They run up against massive challenges due to their own lack of abilities. After they fail a magicians. They try becoming salesmen, then house painters, and then parking attendants. Finally, Rosa (Baby Zelvia), Kadir’s cousin, tries to help them, but, as usual, the whole thing comes to naught.

Plot TBA; an Indonesia-set drama on fatherhood and paternal sacrifice.

After Ah Kew The Digger, Khoo Eng Yow and Lee Eng Kew(Ah Kew) teamed up the second time again. Unlike the previous one which focused on Ah Kew’s journey of researching, this time, Khoo will be focusing on discovering the story of the “Pirate King” Tan Lian Lay, and how does he and the Ong Chun Ceremony relate to Bagan Siap-Api, Indonesia.

It tells the story of Budiman and Abdullah who escaped from the Japanese army. Budiman was shot dead, while Abdullah, who had wanted to join the guerrillas, changed his mind because he knew that Budiman's son and wife were arrested. Abdullah surrendered and was sentenced to death. Before that happened, his father waged resistance against the Japanese to free his son.

Mat Jibrut, a driver for the director of a medicine factory, intends to help his boss who continues to suffer losses due to many of his counterfeit medicines. Mat Jibrut also imitated James Bond 007-style actions.

Kelas Bintang is back with this pack of drama called Pecun.

Ibu Ros a middle-age woman who sells spices at a traditional market lately didn't make any money. When she is desperate for an income, Bejo came to offer her a solutions.

A man chases a shuttlecock to the ends of the world.

Erwin was suddenly terrorized by mysterious calls and texts stating Erwin's close friends in the past, precisely in high school. It seems like the mysterious figure is a woman because she is always upset and angry when Erwin approaches women. The mysterious figure is someone who once loved Erwin. He forced Erwin to declare his love for the mysterious figure when Erwin was invited to come to the haunted mansion. He would kill Karina if Erwin did not accept the mysterious expression of love. Erwin was forced to accept the love of a mysterious figure for the sake of Karina's life. But consequently Erwin should not approach Karina for even a second, because the mysterious figure hoped Erwin and Karina would end their relationship. To solve the problem, Erwin then took the initiative to reveal who the mysterious figure was. He tried to recall the past he had experienced when he was still in high school. Erwin finally recalled the figure of Murni who died hanging himself in the classroom

Martin buys a used BlackBerry and gets acquainted with Angel by chance. It gets complicated when Martin knows that the former owner of the BlackBerry is Fendy, Angel’s ex boyfriend who disappears and avoids responsibility for Angel’s pregnancy. Martin who knows nothing is accused of hiding Fendy and is threatened to be jailed.

A comedy film by all Srimulat players that contains two different stories. Asmuni who seduces Tarsan's wife. Dracula who disturbs the peace of the village.

A single father decides to retire from being a superhero to live with his daughter

Mrs. Marni, a successful pottery entrepreneur, is busy getting her shop ready to open after being closed for a long time due to the pandemic. At that moment, his employees, Tresno and Bejo, found a towering pile of cardboard inside the shop. Tresno and Bejo, who were suspicious about the contents of the box, finally tried to find out what Mrs. Marni was planning. Unexpectedly, the search ended in facts that they had never thought possible.

In order to pass as human and blend in with society, a ghost couple need to drink virgin blood every full moon.

During a pandemic, a father, who had a stroke, felt increasingly useless in front of his family members. His wife and children, who are now forced to do all their household chores due to the pandemic, have to deal with the increasingly unstable emotions of the “head of the household”. The uncomfortable atmosphere at home gets worse when a man who is an old friend of his wife suddenly comes and helps fix a broken water pump.

Wannn is a native Pontianak who finds happiness through playing games. However, growing up in an old-fashioned family, Wannn's parents were against his hobby and side job as a game jockey. Differences of opinion between Wannn and his father caused a major dispute. This also fueled his father's health, so that Wannn lost the opportunity to prove his achievements as a gamer.

In their five-year ongoing strike, the workers are still surviving and struggling to make ends meet. Deni Purba sells used clothes after being released from prison. Steven Yawan who still continues to speak loudly in the capital. Musyawir with his expertise in coffee tells the story of the brutal actions at the beginning of the strike.

In 2040, the global pandemic hasn't ended. Jo, a teenager who grew up during the pandemic, have no clue how the world was before Covid.

A young journalist, Angie, is challenged to investigate a mysterious incident: the death of a transvestite by the name of Ningrum. After his death, his bestfriend Chyntia experiences bizzare events and terror.

A trans woman discovers she is mysteriously pregnant. Shunned by society, she flees to her submerged hometown to make sense of the impossible and reconnect with the spirit of her lost twin, where memory, nature, and body begin to merge.

Sinta wants to continue the legendary noodle shop her recently deceased adoptive father owned. Still, the biological child of her adoptive father comes from out of town and intends to sell the house and the noodle shop.

Devi young mother, who is confused about how to stop her child from being fussy, because her child is prone to illness. Until one day she is visited by a village mother, Umik Suliha, and her assistant, Mbak Lastri. Where they even provide unreasonable solutions. From changing the child's name, to a ritual to exorcise spirits that they say have disturbed the child.

Sinta's father is dying. On his insistence, Sinta has to marry Roni, though she actually prefers Ricky. Initially, Sinta is grateful to have a husband who is willing to sacrifice for her father's hospital treatment. But Roni turns out to be a pimp, and Sinta is used and sold as a call girl aka “gadis telepon”. The situation becomes intolerable, when Roni's secret is revealed, that he has compromised other girls like Sinta. Sinta stabs her husband. Sinta repents her action in prison.

Aries is the code of living in Heaven, until one day the passion comes and forbidden fruits fall to the earth

Princess Cinderella gives birth to a baby girl. The king, the baby’s father, gives her the name, Ira Maya. The neighboring King, who plans to betroth the baby with his son, attends the big party for the baby’s birth. The celebration is ruined with the appearance of the Wicked Witch who curses that Ira Maya will die if a needle pricks her. This is actually the plot of the Stepmother who wants to ruin Princess Cinderella’s happiness. To avoid this evil plan, Ira Maya is raised in the forest by the four good fairies. They keep moving and Ira Maya even changes her name to Mawar because the Wicked Witch is hunting her. When Mawar is an adult, she plays by the waterfall and meets a hunter. The good fairies explain to him who Mawar actually is. When she is approaching 17, Ira Maya and the four good fairies return to the palace. But the Step Mother and the Wicked Witch still want to see her suffer and even hunt the Hunter, who is actually the son of the neighboring King.

Two detectives are interested in a mysterious blind beggar nearby the coffee shop when they are trying to solve a cannibal case.

Lovebirds (love snakes?) Bunga the Snake Princess and Sanca the python live in a forest and transform into humans and hold erotic dance ceremonies every full moon. Some explorers stumble upon them and Sanca is accidentally shot. This incident makes Bunga sad, angry and vengeful and she begins killing everyone off.

Due to his father's back pain, Ilham must become an impromptu courier, promising to take him to a massage parlor at 3 p.m. However, along the way, he encounters a slew of drama. From angry customers, dead phones, broken-down motorcycles, to rumors that the final recipient is a former cannibal! There's only one mysterious package left. Who exactly is this "Budiman"?

Ethan spend most of his life in the bedroom, isolated and doesn’t have any connections to the outside world. Then, his little brother, Edgar, called him through the phone and made a far connections, and they were even have a plan to meet together again after several years not met.

Landlord Darto (Mansjur Sjah) managed to accumulate wealth by deceiving farmers. Moreover, he was assisted by the Dutch. This action was wrapped in generosity. One of the poor farmers who tried to defend his rights was killed. His son, Sani (Farouk Afero), who was handed over to a boarding school, returned home after growing up to look for his father's killer

To please his parents, Dika hides his true self by dancing it out.

This luxury house is the result of a family's pesugihan. The family gets a lot of property, gold, houses and other luxury objects and gives sacrifices and offerings in return. But because the family wanted to act fraudulently by not giving sacrifices and offerings anymore and intending to flee using the sea lane. Then the ghosts immediately sank the ship that the family was riding so that the whole family died. The house and the possessions that were possessed were indirectly taken back by the ghosts and several families still in the house were killed. They were killed on the night of Suro.

Masked vigilante Panji Tengkorak (Sutomo) helps two sisters get revenge on the gang who killed their master.

Lisa, a bright-eyed intern crosses paths with Reno, a mysterious colleague, sparking a connection neither of them expected.

A young man narrated the details of his dream from last night to his father about the celebration of demonstration, anger, and graduation.

They fight just for the heck of it.

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the past to achieve some sort of closure.

No one knows why she decided not to leave her house. When the rain started to fall, it reminded her of something. Her mind starts to drift among the sounds of the rain, the past, and the memories of the distant future.

Anto is a soft spoken and uncomforming 15 year old boy with a long time crush, Rani. But after having several homoerotic dreams, involving a naked man, he became questioning his sexual orientation. Especially when his best friend, Rudi bluntly told Anto he might be gay for having those dreams.

Four girls (Renny Asmara, Tjetty Wulansari, Aty Rochadiaty, Aminah Cenderakasih) live together in a boarding house. They are romantically involved with four different men (Iwan Taruna BA, Rachmat Kartolo, Pong Hardjatmo, Jopic Burnama). There are relationships that are affairs, platonic love, and the story of a secretary who is sleeping with her boss, but ends up marrying the director's employee. The early part of the film is filled with erotic scenes exploiting the girls, and later on, features comical moments.

The train crash on 19 October 1987 in Bintaro, infamously called the Bintaro Tragedy, was claimed to bring out follow-up stories such as the appearance of a rolling head, the sound of crying, and a ghost in ragged clothes from dusk to midnight.

Action / fantasy about the battle over the mystical staff called Puspanaga.

Pipin Kartika is obsessed to get a foreigner / "bule", to be her husband. Frustrated of meeting many jerk bules in Jakarta, Pipin decided to move to Bali to find love.

A Father, a son, and a stranger cross path in a place where the heat of the sun can either burn or warm old wounds.

An official Indonesian remake of Korean film with the same title.

Natasha Tontey's expansive new work, Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre, explores a reversal of the power relationships between living creatures, monkeys and humans, as seen from the perspective of Minahasan culture. The black-crested macaque, known as Yaki in Minahasan, is simultaneously viewed as part of the social structure of everyday life by the indigenous community and as vermin, known for invading villages and stealing crops. This relationship is further complicated by the recognition of the Yaki as an endangered species, prompting international organisations to encourage their preservation.

Tawi (49), a squirrel in charge of the will of Sarmadin (45). Sarmadin is a retired saronèn artist who now sells homemade wine. He always told Tawi that if he died, he would bathe his body with wine and be accompanied by the beating of saronèn from the time he was bathed until he was taken to the grave. Sarmadin also asked that his sape sono' be slaughtered to celebrate his death. Sumrani (36), Sarmadin's wife, refused to carry out the will. Ke Dikram (52) who is a kyai also argues that this will is against tradition and shari'ah.

Eleven years has passed, 16 villages are flooded by mud in Sidoarjo. Locals are forced to get used to the disaster and managed to create jobs on their own. They are selling the view of their drowned villages as tourist attraction and motorbike taxis to ride along the mud shore. Everyday, the motorbike taxi drivers shares their experience when the mud erupted and drowned their villages with the tourists.