Lola Amaria

About a young woman who struggles in foreign countries to improve her self esteem to her family and to the community.

Ca Bau Kan relates the saga of Giok Lan, an Indonesian woman living in the Netherlands, who returns to Indonesia in search of her roots. Her mother, Tinung, a village woman, was known as ‘Ca Bau Kan’ – a word used to describe a courtesan who entertained Chinese men in colonial Indonesia. Giok Lan’s father, Tan Peng Liang (Ferry Salim), was an immigrant Chinese merchant who had a very successful tobacco business in Batavia. She becomes deeply involved with him, and causes a scandal when he has Tinung move in with his family. The film is set between 1930 and 1950, and unfolds the story of Giok Lan and her parents: Tinung and Tan Peng Liang where Tan is eventually ruined when his rivals begin to attack him. This is owing to the significant contrast in socio-economic and cultural background, as the love of these last two characters face a series of difficulties.

Setia, an Indonesian maid, and Supayong, a construction worker from Thailand, are two illegal foreign laborers who drift between Taipei and Taoyuan while looking for job opportunities. The two foreigners rely on each other and share the burden of their loneliness among the hustle and bustle of a glittering city. They strive for survival while developing a gentle relationship full of humor, using a language that both are still awkward with: Chinese, the language of their host country.

The story takes place in a mental hospital. Many things are going on. There is Pesta (Bucek Depp), a junky who was moved from a prison to the hospital. He meets Beth (Ine Febriyanti), the daughter of a high-ranking government official, who asked that her daughter gets a special treatment, but this must remain a secret. There are a poet, a politician and a nurse who was an ex-patient, and Beth’s helper, also Rehan (Nurul Arifin) who has her own set of problems. The doctors at the hospital seem no different from the patients. There is also an artist who makes installation art works. His artistic doctrin is: the more complicated it is for a work of art to be understood, the better. It is unclear if the artist is the hospital 's patient, because he is never inside of the hospital but is always in the courtyard.

This film tells the story of 3 female workers who have one name in common, Titik. They are Titik Sulastri, a widow with 2 children who works as a low-paid contract laborer at a garment factory, Titik Dewanti Sari, a spinster holding a prestigious position in a scandalous giant company, and Titik Kartika or Titik Tomboy, the son of a thug who works as a home factory worker. who is not afraid to die for justice. Not only sharing a name, the three dots are both trapped in a situation that makes their lives change 360 ​​degrees.

Wati and Sri are Indonesian domestic helpers in Hong Kong. At the port, they play a simple game. Whoever wins, can take whatever inside their employer's groceries. But then.. Strangely, the game became an absurdity of their existence.

During the 1965 mass killings and political upheavals to eliminate the Indonesian Communist Party, the new government banned hundreds of Indonesian scholars in the Soviet Union and China from their homeland, forcing them to exile across European countries without status. Shifting between the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Germany, and Indonesia, this documentary follows those whose lives were uprooted decades ago as they recall the fate-changing events and strive to find the closest way to feel home. It’s a story of life built over trauma, the right to reclaim national identity, and a quest to define home through a collective of heartbreaking memories preserved by a group of cast-out intellectuals.