Garin Nugroho Movies

Realistic fairy-tale about conflicts between the traditional society on an Indonesian island and the modern world.

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 documentary about the history of local film scene in Yogyakarta.

A young man is kept distant from his lover by a strict and unforgiving society. He’d go through hell to be with her, but when a deal with the...

Slank is a legendary rock band on the Indonesian scene, known for their politicized lyrics and activism, and for its fanatical fan base - known as...

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...

After the incident the president gave bicycles to school children, some Papuan children also wanted to experience getting bicycles from the president...

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...

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...

Three women looking for answers of their life in Bali.

The documentary presents a free jazz collaboration by Western jazz artistes Guerino Mozzola, Heinz Geisser, and Norris Jones, along with the...

The story of a dancer who finds mysterious objects in the practice room. The things that brought her gave birth to a new spirit and choreography....

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

Crisscrossing between the stories of Rima, a dynamic recruit whose ambition is soon thwarted by Islamic convention; the disaffected Jabir, who is...

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

The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and...

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