Gunawan Maryanto

Autobiography

A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.

The Intrusion

A couple tries to dig a freshly buried corpse for its ear. They believe it would bring wealth.

The Science of Fictions

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.

Elinah

Elinah (14 years old) is seven months pregnant and learning to be a stay at home wife. While living with her much older husband in a foreign city far away from her village, Elinah often chatted with the baby in her tummy to fight boredom and loneliness. In the midst of an annoying day, Elinah and her baby decide to go home, to each of their respective homes.

Wiro Sableng: 212 Warrior

After being trained in the art of silat, a disciple gets sent on a journey by his mentor to take down a treacherous e-pupil with a villainous plan.

Solo, Solitude

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.

Nyai: A Woman from Java

Set in Indonesia's Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner's concubine, and realizes that she is living in a kind of prison, while she deals with loads of visitors to her residence. Director Garin Nugroho shows in a distinctive way how much effort a woman, deserted both by the colonial country's law and the colonized country's traditional culture, puts in to retain her dignity.

Gangster

A young man travels to Jakarta to seek answers about his past and becomes embroiled in a feud involving the woman he loves.

The Crescent Moon

With special agreement with his sister, estranged son agree to accompany his strictly religious father on a journey to seek the crescent moon that signals the start of Eid.

The Hijra

In 1912, Javanese activist Omar Said Tjokroaminoto co-founds the Sarekat Islam party to fight injustices of the Dutch East Indies' colonial regime.

Optatissimus

Unexpected luck and deadly crash. A mysterious girl, ex-killer and madman in shackles. Andreas waited for signs to call him closer, which he had been ignoring.