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Andini's intoxicating film BEFORE, NOW & THEN follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger mistress, Ino. The...
3) Death Knot
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After their mother's death, two siblings are confronted by angry villagers claiming the woman was a practitioner of a dangerous brand of black magic.
4) Yuni
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Yuni, a teen with dreams of university, rejects two proposals, sparking gossip about a myth: a woman declining three won't marry. When a third man asks, Yuni is forced to choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage or her dreams.
5) Merantau
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After a series of setbacks leave Yuda, a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau, homeless & uncertain about his new future in Jakarta, fate finally allows him to use his martial art skills to save a young orphan from human trafficking.
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After going through a horrifying night 4 years ago when their dead mother came back to life and took away her youngest brother, 25 year-old Rini has been living with her other two siblings and their father in a crowded cheap apartment, thinking it's safer than living in a house by themselves. However, one day a heavy storm hits the area and the apartment becomes isolated from the outside world. Rini and her family find out that everybody's gone. When...
9) Gundala
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Based on the hit classic comic, Gundala is a poignant reminder that anyone can be a hero (though a superpower never hurts). When greed and violence reach a fever pitch, orphan-turned-badass Sancaka becomes the people's only hope for peace.
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The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer's powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing. Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something...
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[2012]
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A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of dawn, the SWAT team works its way up the building under cover...
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Cinedigm volume no. 1̀4
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[2014]
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The act of killing is an examination of the murder of political dissidents in Indonesia by government sponsored death squads in the years following the military coup in 1965, in which the filmmakers were successful in persuading those responsible to reenact the killings for the camera in the fashion of American movies.