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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Whispering Sands

    Atmospheric and visually stunning in wide screen, the drama of a woman (played by Indonesian star Christine Hakim) and her daughter on the run from…
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  • The Eye of the Day

    Beautiful and occasionally shocking story of changes in Indonesia based on the lives of a widow and her sons.
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  • The Blindfold

    Recruits to a radical Islamic organisation are blindfolded before being taken to a contact address. So starts this look behind the scenes of a phenome
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  • Parts of the Heart

    Lessons in life about love: eight of these lessons about Peter from the age of ten to forty. Growing up as a homosexual in Indonesia.…
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  • Belkibolang

    Turithrepe could be the translation of Belkibolang, a contraction of ‘Belok kiri boleh langsung’ (‘Turning right through red permitted’). An exception
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  • Je vis dans le rêve de ma mère

    The film is the dream of the real mother of the maker, about a young dark filmmaker who travels through many European and Asian countries…
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  • No One Is Illegal

    Indonesia and Malaysia are sometimes at odds with one another. There are even people gunning for war. Humour solves this type of idiocy and led…
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  • Kuldesak

    Portrait realised by four makers of four young inhabitants of Jakarta in the nineties. On the surface the film is sometimes like a comedy, but…
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  • Bulan tertusuk ilalang

    Enchanting film about a triangle of love between a music teacher and two young pupils. Tradition and modern life, reality and delusion are inextricabl
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  • At the Very Bottom of Everything

    The Indonesian director Paul Agusta based his experimental film about experiencing manic depression on personal experience, while leading lady and co-
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