Tales of the Otherwords 2016
Mbah Sri (95 years old) is looking for the grave of her husband, who has been missing for decades, with one simple aim: she wants to rest in peace beside her husband’s grave.
Mbah Sri (95 years old) is looking for the grave of her husband, who has been missing for decades, with one simple aim: she wants to rest in peace beside her husband’s grave.
A man and a woman bring a sofa into a room that is too small and don't know how or where to turn.
"A Lady Caddy Who Never Saw a Hole in One" displays a love story filled with absurdities regarding homeland, jealousy, hope, and fundamentally a statement about luck. Ning is a female caddy, while Mur is a man who is loyal to his homeland.
Ning, a young Catholic woman, takes up a better job with a furniture company, while her hapless husband—occasionally hawking gasoline—spends most of his time doing pretty much nothing. It is when Ning is required by her new job to go on a road trip with Mur, a male Muslim colleague, that the suffocation of her marriage gives way to an awakening of repressed desires. Set in Yogyakarta, this delicately observed mood piece and debut feature touches on unspoken issues of sexual repression and adultery in contemporary Indonesia.
Overdubbing the roles of both torturer and victim in one of Indonesia’s most contentious movies, a performer in a sound booth becomes the one-man embodiment of a whole era’s worst cruelties and sufferings.
The woman would be happy if the man sit to her right. But the man always prefers to be on the left.
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.
The girl lends her lips to the boy who lends her a pair of eyes. Her lips become his voice as his eyes become her sight.
Young Vania faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicinal hall.
Halim considers himself a pious Islamic man. He wishes to marry a young woman in her village as a second wife to save her from miserable life. His wife doesn't agree. Halim contemplates on his own decision while a weird fantasy world starts to suck him in.
Genre Sub Genre is a short experimental episodic film that documents the predictions of a land in the Southeast of Indonesia.
A small yellow object makes a child trapped in an illusion and pretense. The device that should serve to bring a much closer instead turned into farther the closeness. A innocent portrait on a modernity that arrogant and stutter.
The villagers of Glagaharjo refused to be relocated from their homes after Mount Merapi erupted in 2010. They came back to the village, cleaned all the eruption materials and rebuilt their houses. Among them, there's a group of grannies, who eagerly work together to regain their daily routines. A mundane conversation about resilience, love, passion and belief.