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The Seen and Unseen(2018)

Tantra and Tantri are inseparable. When they secretly steal eggs from the family’s sacrificial offering, Tantri always gets the whites and Tantra the yolks. One day, however, the yolk is missing, as is Tantra. Her brother gravely ill and in hospital, Tantri starts slipping into magical parallel worlds, approaching the inevitable farewell through costumes, body paint and dance. When at one point Tantri’s mother washes the paint from her face, it is as if tenderly to expel the illusion that things can remain as they are. In long dream sequences and against the background of the Balinese philosophy of sekala – the seen – and niskala – the unseen – Andini relates how one ten-year-old girl deals with parting and grief.

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The Window(2016)

Dewi returns to her village in Yogyakarta after ten years of leaving. A letter and newspaper clipping sent by her mother, make her return to her village: Dee’s mysterious pregnancy, her mentally handicapped sister Dewi finds her parents' home situation has not changed. What has changed is the pregnancy of Dee and the always changing view behind the large window of the house. Dewi then knows Priyanto who is just a year living in the village. They make an unusual love story. Joko, Dewi’s old friend, is jealous. The arrival of Dewi reveals his unfinished past.

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The Year of Living Dangerously(1982)

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.

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Lucid Love(2024)

Juno, an ordinary man, always feels insecure because he has a beautiful girlfriend, while Trish, a beautiful woman, is always played by men. They never expected to meet in a place full of wonders, a place that would determine their love lives, in a lucid dream.

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Night Bus(2017)

A group of civilians share a bus ride to Sampar, a town full of natural resources. It is heavily guarded by the state army who is fighting against the rebel militias, who want freedom over their homeland.

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The Struggle(1960)

Devoted to the heroes who fought for their homeland’s freedom in the 1947 Indonesian war of liberation.

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Behind The Scene(2025)

"Di Balik Layar" tells the story of Raka, Dika, Yaya, Vania, and Karin's struggle to make a romance film. Raka, a student with a lot of imagination, has the ambition to create a perfect romance film. However, his high expectations clash with reality. His selfishness and unwillingness to listen to input from his team, put his film project on the verge of failure. When everything starts to fall apart, Raka is forced to face a choice: to maintain his ego or to start working with his team. Will this film be realized or will it be destroyed before it is born? Then, what tensions and conflicts are created by "Behind the Scenes"?

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Merantau(2009)

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.

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Paper Boats(2012)

Feelings slowly grow between an eccentric writer and an aspiring painter until circumstances — and other people — cause them both to drift away.

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Eat Pray Love(2010)

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.

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Si Melati(1952)

Melati lives with her stepmother and half-sister, Kecubung. Even though she always received bad treatment, Melati never stopped praying. One time, the clothes she was washing floated away. Melati searched by going with the flow. Not long after, she arrived at a old woman's house in the middle of the forest. It turns out the cloth was found by the old woman. When she asked for fruit in the old woman yard as she was very hungry, she instead got diamonds in the fruit she picked.

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Gold(2016)

Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

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Mist of Purple Silk(1979)

Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.

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What's Up with Cinta?(2002)

A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.

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Pocongdorie(2025)

While cleaning out their parental home, siblings Dwi and Daya come across their deceased mother, who came back from the dead as a pocong.

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Makassar Is a City for Football Fans(2021)

In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.

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Kuldesak(1998)

Four stories unfold in Jakarta, a big city that feels cold and dehumanizing. Life there strips away meaning, turning people into soulless zombies. In their search for purpose, youths turn to the only things that seem worthwhile—television and movies. This obsession pushes them down a dark path, transforming them into twisted versions of anti-heroes who make anti-social choices that spiral out of control.

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Requiem from Java(2006)

This is the story about Setyo, Siti and Ludiro, who were the performer of Javanese Ramayana's Wayang Wong. Setyo and Siti are spouse who live in a village by selling earthenware products. In the village, live as well Ludiro, the head of the stockyard, who is very wealthy and secretly in love with Siti. Conflicts arrived as Setyo's earthenware company is going bankrupt and Siti started to took notice in Ludiro's desire to win her love. These triangle love transform into a civil war in the village that brings not only extremity and injustice, but also the death of the loved ones.

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Lima(2018)

An inter-faith family come to a conflict when the mother, Maryam, died. The children (Fara, Aryo, and Adi) and the housemaid (Ijah) debating on how Maryam will get buried. When Maryam's funeral problem get solved, turns out that other problems still haunting them one by one.

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Supernova: The Knight, the Princess, & Shooting Star(2014)

After meeting at a party, two Indonesian students studying in the US embark on a project to create a science fiction epic that will captivate the masses.

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