Syaiful Anwar

Drying Up the Streets(en)

An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.

The Same River Twice(zh)

The whole movie is a digital hand drawing animation short. It tells the stories of my father. After a dramatic turning point, life is still flat and peaceful, like a river running forward. However, the memories always come back.

Sugar Dumplin(en)

Attempting to forge a deeper connection with her estranged father, who is grappling with dementia, a young woman prepares foods that evoke memories of his Jamaican childhood.

Sujud Terakhir Bapak(id)

The goodness we cultivate does not need to be shown in words. Sometimes good and bad values ​​always seem biased in a person.

Mêrên Ji Avê Ditirsin(ku)

Devoted(en)

A son inherits the unhealthy habits of his work-obsessed father to write the perfect student short story.

The Fairyhouse(en)

At an all time low in her personal and professional life, young architect Charlotte stumbles upon a mysterious structure in her backyard.

Electric Dreams(en)

Charlie doesn't want to be here. Stuck at his tyrannical Grandpa's house while his mom is away, he finds a secret passage in his dad's old room. Following it, Charlie finds a hidden link to his father.

Chapelle(fr)

In the streets of North Paris, in a famous ghetto place called Chapelle, Isaac sells drugs for his father Abraham. Abraham loves money in an almost religious way. Rebecca is in love with Isaac. She wants to help Isaac find a new lifestyle.

Papa Zola: The Movie(ms)

Papa Zola, a bumbling but lovable schoolteacher, and his brilliant young daughter Pipi. Together, they embark on tiny adventures that sometimes become larger in life.

His Only Son(en)

By God's order, Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. While traveling to the place of the sacrifice, alongside Isaac and two servants, Abraham is flooded with vivid memories from the years he and Sarah spent longing for the son they were promised—the son he must now lay upon the altar.

Act Naturally(en)

When two estranged stepsisters inherit their father's nudist colony, getting back to nature has never been so completely unnatural.

Little Mister Jim(en)

After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.

Baby(en)

A young Black father must learn to navigate parenthood after his girlfriend mysteriously abandons him and their five-year-old daughter.

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies(th)

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

La Vie(fr)

Franck is an astrophysicist. His job is to perform laser drillings with the Lynx, an exploration rover on Mars. Assisted by his collegues, he spends the night looking for traces of organic life by examining rocks. In the morning, he will meet with his son who has been traveling around the world after staying with his mother.

Closed Doors(en)

In search of his missing daughter, a young father must deal with his destructive actions and fears or lose everything he has.

Ventilator(gu)

A son whose father is in serious condition and kept under a ventilator during the period of the Navratri festival creates a situation that can ruin the festival for other relatives.

The St. Louis Kid(en)

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.

Babruvahana(kn)

Babhruvahana, like Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war, faces a moral dilemma. Can he risk harming his parents? While Chitarangada alerts Arjuna to shoot an arrow at their son and take advantage of Babhruvahana’s momentary lapse due to a sense of devotion towards them (as Arjuna did with Karna), Uluci, the Naga princess and yet another abandoned wife of Arjuna’s, reminds Babhruvahana of the teaching of the Kurukshetra battle that in the battlefield there is no space for feelings even towards parents. What Babhruvahana must do is to establish his mother’s good name and thereby his own character. This film captures this conflict spectacularly. The eerie parallels with the moral dilemmas of the great Mahabharata battle aside, here all the familial relationships (in particular, strong mothers and dutiful sons) become exaggerated and demand our attention.