Joko Anwar
Joko ANWAR (1976, Indonesia) worked as a film critic for The Jakarta Post until he wrote the groundbreaking The Gathering (2003), Indonesia’s first gay-themed film which win the award for Best Film at the Indonesian Film Festival. Two years later, he wrote and directed his feature-film debut Joni’s Promise, an international festival favourite. His fifth feature, A Copy of My Mind (2015), was nominated for a Horizons Award at the Venice Film Festival. Anwar’s films feature sensual and edgy details.
Filmografie
Janji Joni/Joni’s Promise (2005), Dead Time: Kala (2007), Pintu terlarang/The Forbidden Door (2008), La promesse (2009, short), Modus Anomali/Ritual (2012), A Copy of My Mind (2015), Pengabdi Setan/Satan’s Slaves (2017), Perempuan tanah jahanam/Impetigore (2019)
More info: Wikipedia, Joko Anwar
Joko Anwar at IFFR
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Forbidden Door
Elegant horror thriller by the film maker who gave the Indonesian Cinemark an audience and self-confidence. A successful sculptor goes off track wh
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Impetigore
Maya had imagined the return to her Javanese birthplace quite differently. Indonesian horror thriller replete with mystery, bloodletting and wayang
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A Copy of My Mind
The experienced writer-filmmaker Joko Anwar is still young but certainly knows what you can and cannot show in an Indonesian film. He seems to be s
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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. Autobiographi
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La promesse
Shot during a Swiss fantasy festival with a cigarette in one hand and the camera in the other. Pure DIY.Screened before At the Very Bottom of Every
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Satan’s Slaves
This idiosyncratic remake of the Indonesian horror classic from 1982 by versatile filmmaker Joko Anwar was the 2017 box office smash in his ho