In a city when the ‘men’ have to go crazy about football, Akbar has to pretend to love football in order to prevent rejection.
"Di Balik Layar" tells the story of Raka, Dika, Yaya, Vania, and Karin's struggle to make a romance film. Raka, a student with a lot of imagination, has the ambition to create a perfect romance film. However, his high expectations clash with reality. His selfishness and unwillingness to listen to input from his team, put his film project on the verge of failure. When everything starts to fall apart, Raka is forced to face a choice: to maintain his ego or to start working with his team. Will this film be realized or will it be destroyed before it is born? Then, what tensions and conflicts are created by "Behind the Scenes"?
While cleaning out their parental home, siblings Dwi and Daya come across their deceased mother, who came back from the dead as a pocong.
Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.
This is the story about Setyo, Siti and Ludiro, who were the performer of Javanese Ramayana's Wayang Wong. Setyo and Siti are spouse who live in a village by selling earthenware products. In the village, live as well Ludiro, the head of the stockyard, who is very wealthy and secretly in love with Siti. Conflicts arrived as Setyo's earthenware company is going bankrupt and Siti started to took notice in Ludiro's desire to win her love. These triangle love transform into a civil war in the village that brings not only extremity and injustice, but also the death of the loved ones.
Four stories unfold in Jakarta, a big city that feels cold and dehumanizing. Life there strips away meaning, turning people into soulless zombies. In their search for purpose, youths turn to the only things that seem worthwhile—television and movies. This obsession pushes them down a dark path, transforming them into twisted versions of anti-heroes who make anti-social choices that spiral out of control.
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
Jakarta, 2001. Cinta seems to have it all—close friends, a loving family, and the title of the most popular girl in school. But her perfect world starts to shift when she unexpectedly loses a poetry contest to Rangga, a quiet and mysterious boy who prefers books to people. Annoyed yet intrigued, Cinta finds herself drawn into his world, so different from her own. As emotions grow and loyalties are tested, she must choose between the friends who’ve always stood by her or the first love she never saw coming.
On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
Jakarta, 2045, a world without the sun. On her younger sister’s birthday, Jenas, a hydroponic farmer finally wins a raffle prize—AlfaSur, an artificial sun capable of curing the illness afflicting her sister, Athira. Jenas has to go to the Luminos clinic to get the AlfaSur. While out selling vegetables, she discovers that the AlfaSur might be linked to the death of one of her customers. Driven by saving her dying sister, Jenas decides to go anyway. even though there might be danger lurking behind her win.
A husband and wife recall an event when their love was tested amid Punjabi pre-wedding customs, as their family continued to create a scene due to cultural and racial differences, which persisted despite the customs.
Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
He is an engineer, she is a machine. Brother and sister, lovers, father and daughter, inventor and invention. This is a story about them, trying to find eternity, before the end of time.
A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes disheartening when you finally knows what happens behind the scenes.
A contemporary retelling of the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: A maestro who is endowed with superhuman musical skills loses his fiancé before their wedding day. Distraught with grief, he made a deal with death in order to restore her to mortality. Even just for a fleeting moment.
An inter-faith family come to a conflict when the mother, Maryam, died. The children (Fara, Aryo, and Adi) and the housemaid (Ijah) debating on how Maryam will get buried. When Maryam's funeral problem get solved, turns out that other problems still haunting them one by one.
An omnibus of 10 stories, 10 romances that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender relationships throughout Jakarta.
To save his failing business, an elderly tailor must confront his deep-seated prejudice when he accepts an unusual order: creating a female cosplay costume for a young man.