After dedicating years of service at a matchmaking company, Arini tries to piece together her mysterious past — and memories of a former client.
An overbearing mother who lives with her son in a secluded crocodile farm spirals out of control when her son sees the outside world and falls for a girl for the first time.
Sarinah, Kusno's nanny (Bung Karno's nickname when he was a child) who taught him love for fellow human beings and care for the common people. The life values taught by Sarinah had a strong influence on Kusno. Making him grow into a humanist and became the basis of Bung Karno's struggle in developing Indonesia.
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.
A traveler who traveled around the world in search of his identity for 10 years. He then returned home when his mother was suffering from cancer. His return made him and his mother closer. He also shared stories of his travels with his mother, who had never had the opportunity to travel. They begin to understand the meaning of life so far.
What will you do, what will you say, when you meet the Ex? A young woman must confront her fiance's secret past and resolve her misgivings when she meets his ex. Catherine is having a garage sale before she moves to Hawaii with her fiance Paul. Initially assumed to be just another customer, Susan turns out to be the ex of Catherine's fiance, who has come to the house to pick up her belongings. As Catherine gets acquainted with Susan, she must confront her fiance's secret past and resolve her misgivings about their relationship.
When an unidentified disease starts to upend her life, a socialite must unravel the mystery behind it — before her whole sense of self falls apart.
The Suharto regime has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting down democracy time and time again. Highly critical of the regime and unafraid to speak his mind, Wiji Thukul is a poet whose words are often yelled proudly by the crowd during political protests. When riots break out in Jakarta in 1996, he and a few other activists are accused to be responsible. Forced to flee, Wiji escapes to Pontianak in Borneo where he hides for eight months, sometimes living with complete strangers. There, he has to change his identity several times, but continues to write poetry and short stories under a pen name. In the meantime, in Solo, central Java, his wife, Sipon, lives with their two children under constant surveillance. In May 1998, Wiji Thukul is declared missing, a month before Suharto is deposed by his own people.
Callie is a 10 year-old girl who's intrigued when she saw two 15 year-old boys on her pick-up shuttle bus making a hand gesture which is considered as symbol related to sex. Callie doesn't know the meaning of the gesture and she can't stop thinking about it. From that moment onward, she insists to find out about it by asking adults around her.
Two teenagers face demands from their families that do not care about what they want. They only have each other to encourage and pursue their dreams.
The story of a woman named Likas who gets special accomplishments and successes, as she holds fast to pledge to the three most important people in her life: her father Ngantari, her brother Njohre, and her husband Djamin. In Karo, North Sumatra, there is a custom: when a woman has to work, then the disgrace belongs to the family. However, Likas still wants to move forward. Therefore she opposes the custom. She attends school because she wants to be a teacher. She looses her mother because of stress. With the help of her brother, she could become a teacher.
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
Sancaka has lived on the streets since his parents left him. Living a hard life, Sancaka survives by thinking about his own safety. When the condition of the city gets worse and injustice rages throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he continues to live to look after himself or rise to become their oppressed hero.
Siman discover a foreign crew shooting a moon landing. He gets caught and his tongue is cut off. He goes through life in slow motion, imitating an astronaut in outer space, labeled as crazy.
Sent from the future to look after a lonely girl, Eggy finds himself falling for her. But dating is forbidden and would risk both their fates.
Glen was surprised when he accidentally cheated on death, with infidelity. Now the real problem is: How will he explain his luck to Maya, his wife?
Quarantine Tales is a collection of stories by 5 directors who tell the stories of life experienced during the pandemic.
After his father's passing, a teenager sets out for New York in search of his estranged mother and soon finds love and connection in unexpected places.
In her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.
Jefri and Sarah are an adulterous couple now desperately trying to create an alibi after the corpse of Sofia, the lawful wife they murdered, mysteriously disappears from the morgue. Arya Pradana, a police investigator, uses all his logic to uncover the truth. Has the corpse come back to life to take revenge on her killers?
Alya and Ben love each other, but there's a high wall between them, a difference that can't be forced. Can love survive amidst differences and conflicting blessings?
Tawa, a rising stand-up comedian, builds her fame on jokes about her estranged father, Pak Keset, a veteran comic whose career collapses as hers takes off. When she reunites with him to find new material, their uneasy collaborations blurs the boundary between performance and personal reckoning, pulling long-buried scars back into the spotlight.
A father on vacation wakes up separated from his family and races through the woods to find them.
A notorious prison, an invisible force begins killing inmates brutally, compelling enemy gangs and corrupt guards to work together as they try to survive the mounting bloodshed.