Garin Nugroho Movies

New rule from state government: you can only say 100 words in one day, if you fail to comply you will be jailed. A man waits to call his faraway...

A husband forgets to inform his wife that he will be late coming back home. Afraid of being scolded, he made up a reason about a monster.

Farm docudrama about a father and son who grew apart after the son fails to move up a grade.

Parjo cannot afford to buy school uniform for his daughter Inah. Parjo's wife has an idea to use the white side of an Indonesian flag to patch up...

This movie follows the story of Dutch East Indies' (now Indonesia) first indigenous bishop, Albertus Soegijapranata SJ, from his inauguration until...

In his contribution, Garin Nugroho wants to show the importance of the new and the old harbour of Jakarta. In the harbour districts Keroncong Tugu...

The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of...

A college student and her peers are doing a field study & community service near the evacuation site for Lumpur Lapindo victims. A boy follows her...

As an infotainment producer deals with a work crisis, a childhood friend, who's now a cleric, arrives to honor a religious request from her late...

After a fateful meeting of a widow and a young entrepreneur with Alzheimer's, friendship between the two blossoms following the man's request to make...

An illustrator copes after a tragic loss of a loved one in a plane crash.

A civil servant taking shelter from the rain in front of a laundry shop. Then, he was given a bag of laundry clothes which he thought belonged to the...

A small island is inhabited by members of the Bajo tribe, a nomadic fishing community of the Wakatobi Islands. After her father is lost at sea,...

The film commemorates the 50th anniversary of Sukarno driving through the street in the aftermath and waving the Flag of Indonesia as he became the...

A college student, a young female dancer, an orphaned adolescent, a rickshaw driver, and an eternal optimist all discuss the manner in which the 2004...

Adam, the Village Head who entered regional election politics brought his politics home, affecting his relationship with his wife and younger...

The story follows three women in Bali, each facing their own life challenges. Maharani is a woman searching for her biological mother. Nian is a...

Explores the complex intersection of beauty, power, and tradition in 1950s Indonesia through a triangle of desire and mysticism: Adista, a wealthy...

Documentary about the West Papuan Congress held in Jayapura in May–June 2000. Garin Nugroho explores West Papuan cultural identity, political...

Four university students dreams of being millionaires after entering a competition for creating the perfect phone ringtone.