The old man was trying to find his father's grave. In the end he was forced to convince himself and accept the reality that was at the end of the search.
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In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.
At home, Tania is a closed girl who lives in the pressure of the mother who hates him since childhood . In the office, Tania is a shy girl who is busy harbored feelings of passionate love on Jordy, his boss. He can only bite the fingers and dream while his colleague, Grace, bolder approach Jordy. Until one day Janet, neighbors, giving the idea to use rope Pocong Tania Virgin to lure Jordy. Tania desperate to take the rope pocong it from the grave a virgin girl who had just died.
In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fascinating juxtaposition, she combines these images with excerpts from letters she received from her father just after she moved to the Netherlands in the late 1980s. Through his education in Indonesia, Tan’s father knew a lot about the Netherlands without ever having visited the country. In the letters, he meanders seamlessly between personal news and world events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
Cyntia, an American who works for a foreign NGO, came to the region between Pati and Blora (Central Java), conducted a study of Samin community. At the same time, two petty criminals escape from prison Blora and chose the village as a hideout.
A teenager reluctant to enroll discovers the importance of friendship and the determination it takes to pursue his dreams at a boarding school.
A scholar researches the historical significance of a house that serves as a free school in hopes of saving it from being demolished by a developer.
Set in 1896, "Tjoet Nja' Dhien" celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Uma is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.
Christian mission propaganda film about 'a slice of heathen life, with the bamboo bush people of Borado-Likowali'. Keli is forced to marry Wesa but has a lover in another village. This causes war to break out between the two villages and Wesa is killed. Wesa's father Meo now wants Keli to marry his other son. Keli refuses and the hostilities continue. Just when the authorities have locked up a number of troublemakers, Father Jacobs arrives. The missionary tries to win the confidence of the locals but becomes embroiled in the conflict. An assault by Meo's men leaves him dangerously wounded. The villagers stop fighting and Meo asks the dying missionary's forgiveness.
The parents of Christian girl Ria Rago have arranged for her to marry Dapo, a Muslim. She refuses and, after a beating, flees to the mission sisters who offer her a safe haven. Her father and his cronies aren't long in finding her, however, and she is taken back into the kampong. After months of torture, Ria still won't give in. She escapes again and manages to reach the mission post where she collapses. On the brink of death, she is administered the last rites. Ria's father decides to call off the marriage and returns the dowry to Dapo. On her deathbed Rita forgives her parents.
Set in the 1930s, and narrated like a ballad from the past, "The Tiger from Tjampa" tells of how a young man, Lukman, seeks to avenge his father’s murder by learning pencak silat, a traditional form of self defence, based on the movements of animals.
A kid who is the son of pabaruak (owner of coconut picking monkey) is trying to get rid of a monkey, which is to blame for the bullying he has faced
Three sisters—Nunung, Nana and Nenny—are being raised by their grandmother in Jakarta after their mother's death. Though the sisters' father Sukandar lives with them, he is too involved in his own work to pay them heed.
The film takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it tells about how the situation was handled by 3 different people.
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
A Malaysian eats at an Indonesian food court in Jakarta during times of confrontation & disputes between the two countries.
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, the power of prayer in India and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.
A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
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.
A contemporary retelling of the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: A maestro who is endowed with superhuman musical skills loses his fiancé before their wedding day. Distraught with grief, he made a deal with death in order to restore her to mortality. Even just for a fleeting moment.
An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.