The Year of Living Dangerously
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Divided By Three
On a Sunday near noon in Jakarta, young silver buskers Alvin, Riki, and Jaki receive a 50,000 won note from a Korean tourist. Struggling to divide it, they try various ways until they meet Arif, a 23-year-old math teacher.
Merantau
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
13 Bombs
An organization races against time to uncover the mastermind behind the placement of 13 bombs in Jakarta before the city falls into chaos.
Engineering Eternity
He is an engineer, she is a machine. Brother and sister, lovers, father and daughter, inventor and invention. This is a story about them, trying to find eternity, before the end of time.
Jakarta Unfair
According to Jakarta Legal Aid Institute report, Jakarta Provincial Government had conducted 113 evictions in 2015 and 325 more places are threatened by eviction in 2016. At least 70% of evictions were carried out unilaterally and without any proportionate solutions. Now, some evicted area had been flattened. The rationale is still the same: public order and environmental protection (green open space, normalization of reservoir or river) for the sake of a better life. Jakarta Unfair tries to challenge the government thesis of "a better life after eviction."
Jakarta Undercover
After accidently killing her temperamental father in order to save her mom from his abuse, Viki flees from Medan to Jakarta with her autistic brother, Ara. To make ends meet in Jakarta, Viki poses as a transvestite and works as a striptease dancer. With no one to watch over her brother, Viki brings Ara every night to the club where she works and hide him in one corner of the room at the club. One day, Ara accidently witnesses an act of murder by Haryo, son of an official, and his friends. Realizing his crime action witness by Ara, Haryo and his friends chase Viki and Ara, determined to silene the two before they go to the police. For the sake of saving his brother’s life, Viki secretly flee from one place to another in order to escape Haryo and friends. Will Viki and Ara escape?
Look At Me Touch Me Kiss Me
The world becomes unpredictable when the pandemic happens. But in the face of despair, people put aside reasons and stop worrying. For these couples from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Korea, even love blossoms. They embrace each other and cling to one another desperately and fearlessly. Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul. Three couples in three cities in three countries: The paths of a telemarketer for a loan company and a cart rink owner are destined to cross. A pub owner and a woman with their own background stories. A virgin forklift operator who has never kissed before and a kiss-for-sale manager.
Batavia, the Javanese Capital
In this trip Burton Holmes takes your patrons to Java, the richest island of the Dutch East Indies, and Batavia, its capital city, one of the most picturesque and interesting cities of the Far East. We see many unusual sights, such as the embarking of the Dutch troops for Sumatra, another Dutch possession, to quell a revolt. Then a Dutch treat. How many have wondered where the expression Dutch treat came from? We are shown an original one. An important feature concerning this so-called "treat," which is termed by them as the "Rice Table," is the amount of service required to serve the courses, of which there are as many as there are varieties of Heinz's pickles. It takes seventeen waiters or attendants to make the meal complete.
In the Absence of the Sun
A tender, melancholic night is experienced through the eyes of three women as they struggle to find themselves in this ever-changing jungle of Jakarta.
Mrs. Tejo Goes to Jakarta
Bu Tejo goes on a road trip to attend her son's engagement party in Jakarta, but she brings along her own hidden agenda.
Jakarta Sunless
Jakarta, 2045, a world without the sun. On her younger sister’s birthday, Jenas, a hydroponic farmer finally wins a raffle prize—AlfaSur, an artificial sun capable of curing the illness afflicting her sister, Athira. Jenas has to go to the Luminos clinic to get the AlfaSur. While out selling vegetables, she discovers that the AlfaSur might be linked to the death of one of her customers. Driven by saving her dying sister, Jenas decides to go anyway. even though there might be danger lurking behind her win.
Last Chicken on Earth
In the bustling chicken stall of Jakarta, a dispute over the last piece of chicken escalates into a surreal journey. Three individuals find themselves transported to an expressionistic jail realm, where a deadly fight unfolds.
Stip & Pensil
Toni, Aghi, Bubu, and Saras get the task of making essays. They create a free school for street children but they chose to earn money than learn.
Philosophy of Death
When Death talks about the meaning of life.
Hiruk Pikuk Jakarta
An exploration of Jakarta's residents as they struggle to survive in a city infamous for its harsh realities and glaring social divide.
Pancoran
Motorcycles and cars are lost in the sound of traffic and disappear in bands sliced into film footage of Jakarta’s roads. The horizontal and vertical lines or checkerboard patterns emphasizing the density and chaos of the crowded roads were made by optically printing 16mm film.
Pagi Yang Sungsang
Pasar Minggu, Jakarta. The big monster is ready to clean the market.
Shackled
Elang, who lived in the flat, is often haunted by images of bizarre murders involving a killer with a rabbit costume. His efforts to solve the mystery and save the lives of the people he presumed in danger, has in turn trapped him in a downward spiral and he became a suspect himself. In proving his innocence, he will be forced to unveil a horrible and long-buried secret.
To Whom the Bell Rings (Oblivion)
When a young girl walks home alone at night, something sinister lurks in the shadows, which beckons along with the ringing of bells, to remind her the true meaning of oblivion.