Discoveries from Indonesia World Cinema

This documentary film will follow Juman and Zahrina’s journey in the process of healing from the trauma of the Aceh Tsunami, 20 years ago.

Guided by the Minahasa’s influence, this speculative fiction of mystical belief interlaces care and ancestral dialogues, embracing a healing renewal across numinous, material and technological realms.

Malem, a Karo girl who hopes that her lover, Apul, will soon return from the battlefield. Malem's mother tries to match her with another man, but Malem's belief remains in the promise she made to Apul as a child that they would get married. As time passed, Apul never came home. With the help of his grandmother, Malem tried to summon Apul's spirit, asking where he was.

Sudarko, a tenacious and stubborn widower, finally manages to become a successful businessman although he suffers from liver disease. His son, Nagara, also has this difficult nature. He refuses to become a businessman and opts to become an artist. Without his father’s support, he is able to study in Paris. On the other hand, Sudarko’s daughter, Andina, is a gentle person. She cannot resist her father’s wish for an arranged marriage with Dr. Budi, the son of Sudarman, his best friend and a specialist who had treated Sudarko in the war era. Apparently, Budi is selfish and a womanizer.

The Time Traveler Courier was assigned by his employer to deliver an item. Along the way, unexpected things happened.

Two market thugs with all their troubles.

Tempted by the presence of Kokom (Rima Melati) dangdut singer of a successful village in Jakarta, coaxing his uncle Sarkim (WD Mochtar) and the poverty that left three children died, Citizen (Henry Wanisar) decided to move to town with his wife and children are dumb, Iyom (Marisa Haque). In Jakarta they were under the influence Sarkim who became king of beggars. His home life is threatened. Iyom accused of fooling with another man, angry residents and leave his wife. Residents Seperginya, Iyom huts on fire. So the family was scattered. Residents Sarkim be assassin plunges, luxurious living and lives with his dream, Kokom. When he realized that all this caused Sarkim, Citizens kill Sarkim and go to jail. At the door he met with Iyom prison and his son. He asked for forgiveness.

A man who had just moved into a new house found a door that couldn't be opened inside his house

Rhoma’s father, Subrata, a businessman living in Bandung, expects his son to be an Economics graduate. Rhoma instead pursues his love of music, which is considered lowly by his father. This often causes conflict between them and Rhoma is finally thrown out of the house. So Rhoma travels to Jakarta and calls himself Budi. He lives with a group of street musicians and when one of his friends is seriously ill and needs money for medical treatment, his father rejects his call for help. So he grabs the bag of Ani, who is looking after his father’s paperwork. Budi pays for his friend’s treatment and returns the important papers to Ani. Budi’s friend dies, but Ani and her parents sympathise with him. Budi is hired as a personal driver for Ani. Love grows between them. Meanwhile, Subrata follows his wife’s suggestion to match Ani to Rhoma, with the hope that Rhoma’s attitude will change after marriage.

It all started when two friends, Muslim and Gitong, moved to Jakarta. However, they were tricked into draining their money by a beautiful broker, leaving them unable to find work. One day, the police arrested them for urinating on a statue, causing it to explode. However, it was later discovered that the statue exploded due to a short circuit. They were released, and policewoman Yenny became interested in hiring them as honorary informants to eradicate corruption.

Jalanan is the captivating story of Boni, Ho and Titi - three gifted, charismatic bus musicians in Jakarta - and through them a mostly unknown story of contemporary Indonesia. Jalanan intimately portrays the young musicians' quirky sub-culture while also painting an alarming portrait of Indonesia's frenzied capital city that is raw, humorous and brutally honest. Jalanan accompanies the three characters as they perform songs of social angst, get caught in political unrest, face family crises and get locked up by police. It follows them to their distant home villages in Java and traces their elusive, heartfelt quest for identity and love in an adopted city rapidly being overrun by the effects of globalization. A powerful soundtrack of the musicians' original compositions drives the film.

Dahlia, a college student, is ready to end her life on the campus bridge on her birthday, until she unexpectedly meets Tisha, a classmate she barely knows. What begins as a brief encounter slowly unfolds into a night of quiet conversations, leading her to question everything she had planned.

Mutya (18) is a cosplayer from a Muslim family. While at school, she experienced bullying because of her body shape, which was considered fat. Followed by an eating disorder after the body shaming, Mutya began working out to shape her body so she could be proud of it when cosplaying at events.

A snackable drama series about the life of GENJI, whose world is constantly overflowing with drama—because everyone around him is way too sweet (literally “too much sugar”). Luckily, there’s GULDIK, always ready to lay down the real talk, offering tips and tricks so GENJI can keep moving forward—just like the main character in the movies.

The film commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sukarno driving through the street in the aftermath and waving the Flag of Indonesia as he became the first President proclaiming "My nationalism is humanity". The film investigates modern life on the street and whether early promises made by Sukarno lived up to expectations.

Yuni (31), the second wife of a loan shark, sells traditional cakes and lives with Hening (11), her only daughter who is mute. After selling at the market, Yuni finds bloodstains on Hening's underwear after her husband picks her up from a scout activity. Based on the cipher box formula she saw on the wall of her daughter's room, Yuni decided to use it as a communication language with Hening to avoid her abusive husband

After going away for eight years, Anggun decides to return home to seek acceptance from her father in her hometown, Jambi.

Anna is on her road to become a famous ballerina. As a dark secret starts to unfold, it reveals the true nature of her relationship with her ambitious yet loving father.

Hardi is a jobless broke guy who is looking for a job, until one day he "accidentally" meets his old friend who now works as an illegal parking attendant. That meeting brings him to the job he was looking for, but the job is informal and has an unfavorable system.

a short film by Ninndi Raras

As a young lady prepares to leave behind her childhood home, a playful and enigmatic elf from her past invites her into a nostalgic game of hide and seek.

Budi, a teenager with a violent past, promises his mother not to fight again when he starts a new life at a voca- tional school. However, when injustice reigns and his new friends are threatened, Budi must choose between keeping his promise to his mother or taking part in a dangerous school tournament, and uncover a corruption scandal involving school teachers and dangerous people.

PEPAK: The adventure of 3 Detectives is a fantasy short fiction about the adventures of 3 detectives in an effort to save their country which is on the verge of destruction. Helped by 'cangkriman' instructions, they had to look for separate codes in Javanese script in different locations. The separate codes they found then became the password to unlock a secret message that would save their country.

A man takes therapy to quit his bad habit of shooting people with a gun.

Lily (8) decided to go to her father's house. Before she and her mom had to move out of town with her new family. Lily and Hendra (36) spent their time together that day.

Some men can't go to their hometown due to Covid-19 Isolation. They talk about it while fishing.

A few years ago, Audrey, an Indonesian teenage ice speed skater with many international medals was forced to retire due to her economic and mental condition after her father passed away. Now, Audrey got a chance to visit an ice rink where she used to practice everyday one more time.

For the sake of getting her daughter's love and attention, a mother desperately tried to be the thing her daughter's love the most.

A deep conversation between Anggun, a transgender woman, and her mom about family & social acceptance and its relation to the plan of the governtment to criminalize LGBTIQ by revising Indonesia Penal Code.

Red eggs have always been present in Ivonne’s life—a symbol of birth, continuity, and the cycle of life itself. Through a reflective and autoethnographic approach, she weaves together family archives from her childhood with the documentation of her grandmother’s 91st birthday celebration. In tradition, red eggs are prayers for a prosperous future, but for Ivonne, they also mark the passage of time.

Bayu is an emigrating from Java to Jakarta. Bayu wants to be an actor. One day, he got the opportunity to play a character in short filmmaking project from one of famous director named Bang Romli who has a background from Betawi Culture. Bayu is a Javanese and speaking Java so fluent, and he must act and speaks look like Betawinese.

Ambar and Reni are beginner makeup artists whose limited knowledge of beauty culture forces them to face a group of mothers.

Lika is a child who likes to collect toys. She felt dignity when she saw her friend had a new toy.

Groh Goh re-imagines performance lineages surrounding the mythological figure of Rangda: Bali’s queen of the graveyard and patroness of black magic. The story of Rangda, and her alter incarnation, the legendary witch widow Calonarang, occupies a central role within Bali’s spirit cosmology and frames a narrative around an undesirable woman as a dangerous and deviant social disrupter. Alongside her feared otherness, Rangda is also conceived as a balancing force for spiritual order, and a powerful matriarchal protector. The film centres upon a matrilineal building and passing of knowledge around Rangda, channelling her presence through different bodies, performance genres and landscapes.

For a words that hard to be said, a woman was kidnapped by unknown assailant on her way home.

Throughout his life, Raka has always been single. His love was rejected 22 times. His 23rd target is Amelia. Learning from the experience of previous failures, Raka learns to be patient not to rush to express his heart.

Sonso (36) and Paung (40) are two people who work part-time as a video shooting service provider. Due to the pandemic, their work has stopped. They try to survive by filming a video pilot's of COVID-19 victim's funeral. The recordings massively made them viral and opened a new path for the survival of the two people, namely becoming a YouTuber.

A middle aged man tries to find a cure for his impotency while his young and sexy wife has an affair. It's a comedy.

Businessman Bharata is rich and has a 22-year-old trophy wife named Natalia. Feeling neglected, Natalia decides to have an affair with Bharata's nephew Pieter, who's home on college break from America. This leads to blackmail, pregnancy, murder, pawning off an unborn child on the wrong dad, gambling debt, forced prostitution, fights to the death and more!

Set in the village of Sorobayan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, the film follows a group of children whose talent and creativity breathe new life into the traditional Jathilan dance. In their effort to keep this cultural heritage alive, they face challenges so great that their very lives are at stake.

A princess hears about her lover who will marry her step-sister. Heartbroken by the news, she prepares a secret plan to prove her love with the performance of Gambuh before everything is too late.

A man and his little daughter want to capture a photograph of the Javan Hawk Eagle, so they are traveling through a forest to see it. But something happens in that forest.

An animated film that tells the story of Dian, a child bride whose dream of playing her favorite sport of badminton is cut short.

Dinda, just recovered from a virus but is still restrained by her sister to stay at home and eat healthy food. Unfortunately, Dinda is someone who is addicted to spicy instant noodles. Until finally, something scary happened.

This situation occured when in asian financial crisis 1998. A little boy, Ilalang walked out of the house every night to find his father who disappeared when looking for whealty way from black magic. The myths about instant wealth spread rapidly into villagers. Including Ilalang's grandmother.

This short film tells the story of a student named Nana, who plays too much games and is trapped in the illusion of the game itself. But... Nana's illusion is no ordinary illusion... Instead, she has been hit by an Imperius spell from David, a wizard from the Wizard Lineage Series (continued from one of the scenes in Wizard Lineage episode 3) which is a forbidden spell. Will Nana be able to face it all???

A man was attacked by a thief in his house. After a fierce struggle, the man managed to subdue the thief. However, in a fit of rage, the young man killed the helpless thief. When the police arrived, the young man was arrested for murder.

After receiving a blood test result and learning the name of his soul mate, Jon, a nerdy high school boy goes to confess his love for his high school crush and friend, Vio, a tomboy teen girl, despite not being each other's chosen soulmates. They both begin an unlawful relationship. At the end of the school year near the Vio's supposed marriage with her soulmate, she suggests for them to run away together, but Jon is hesitant, very much aware of the government's regulation against choosing your own partner.

While mourning his best friend Yayat, Bagas meets him again as a spirit. Thrilled with excitement, they catch up with each other. Until Bagas remembers—last time he saw Yayat, they were not on very good terms. However, like usual, Yayat persuades Bagas to go to his favorite place, the beach. That made Bagas think of something..

"They" reminisce about their stories of living on the Island of "Hope", hope for a long life, so they can feel the taste of going home one day, among free choices.

Raden Mas Panji Komeng has a unique habit of eating crackers. Everyone in his organisation, including his beautiful personal secretary, strongly supports Raden Mas Panji Komeng, including the sexy, Jupe, even though she already has a boyfriend. One day, Komeng meets Jojon who is tackling a gang of criminals about to rob Komeng’s house. Jojon works as a security guard. His colleagues don’t care for him except for Lia, who admires him.

Two filmmakers record a traffic light in Jakarta for a college assignment, capturing their thoughts and commentary on passing vehicles, image that they’re recording, and ultimately how they felt at that time.