NEXT STEP STUDIO INDONESIA
Continuing the concept initiated by La Factory at the Directors’ Fortnight since 2013, Next Step Studio supports the emergence of new voices in cinema around the world. Each year, it takes place in a different country and highlights local cinema, bringing together eight emerging directors—four local and four international—to co-write and co-direct four 15-minute short […]
TALE OF THE LAND
Haunted by the memory of witnessing her parents’ death on land, May now lives with Tuha, her grandfather, in a floating house – adrift on a lake far from land. Their homeland is now transformed into a mining area. Due to her past, now May is plagued by a mysterious condition that causes her to […]
24 HOURS WITH GASPAR
Private detective Gaspar finds a clue about the mysterious disappearance of Kirana, his childhood friend. As the clues lead to Wan Ali being involved in a human trafficking syndicate, Gaspar, who is going to die within 24 hours, plans to rob a jewelry shop with five other people.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town. After Purna returns home to start his mayoral election campaign, Rakib bonds with the […]
YOU AND I
Kaminah and Kusdalini, former Indonesian political detainees, meet in prison and then inseparable for more than half of a century. Despite life’s vicissitudes, they show the beauty of growing old which comes with consequences.
THE SCIENCE OF FICTIONS
Set in 1960s Indonesia, Siman is a quiet man who accidentally discovers a moon-landing shooting by a foreign crew, in a haunted and unpopulated area. Siman is caught by guards and his tongue cut off. Siman goes through life in slow-motion imitating an astronaut in outer space, labeled as crazy.
BALLAD OF BLOOD AND TWO WHITE BUCKETS
Ning and Mur, a couple who sells congealed blood for a living, face a huge ordeal when people stop consuming blood due to a shift in religious beliefs. But they are sick of all hypocrites
SOLO, SOLITUDE
July 1996, riots break out in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. Wiji Thukul, a well-known poet, is designed as a suspect activist. With the police looking for him, Wiji is forced to leave Solo for Borneo, thousands of kilometers away. Now a fugitive, Wiji starts his exile in fear. Helped, protected and fed by activists along […]
ON THE ORIGIN OF FEAR
One soldier and one prisoner. Two soldiers and one film director. That day, they talk to each other very intimately: about pain, loyalty, betrayal, drama and terror.