Garin Nugroho Movies

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...

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...

Layar, a popular film star who feels bored with his career wants to make a musical theater set in a family history that is always linked to...

Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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 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.

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

A short film by Marsha Timothy, adapted from short story “Naruto Bersyukur” by Pidi Baiq.

A story about a court musician student man named Ilalang who is faced by his trauma while studying court music.

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

Set in the remote highlands of Toraja, the story follows a noblewoman who keeps the preserved body of her adult son.

A waiter named Dito gets a visit by a girl that he has feelings with. She sits down and orders food, though something feels out of the ordinary.

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...

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...

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