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Drafthouse Films volume no. 35
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Indonesian
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The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
4) A Gift
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Indonesian
Description
Isfi can wear her comfortable pants among her guy friends but has to wear hijab to be accepted at Nita’s house. Two days to Nita’s birthday, all Isfi wants is to prepare the best gift in Nita’s room.
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Indonesian
Description
One of the greatest documentaries ever made, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer and documentary titans, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris examine a country where Indonesian death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings via musical numbers, action and comedy sequences and other genres of the American movies they love.
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Indonesian
Description
This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In the past the husband's group would carry a spear and a sword to hang in the wife's house. Now, a payment is made as a substitute for the spear and sword.
7) Gundala
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Indonesian
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Based on the hit classic comic, Gundala is a poignant reminder that anyone can be a hero (though a superpower never hurts). When greed and violence reach a fever pitch, orphan-turned-badass Sancaka becomes the people's only hope for peace.
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Indonesian
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The Look of Silence is Joshua Oppenheimer's powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated The Act of Killing. Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something...
9) Yuni
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Indonesian
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Yuni, a teen with dreams of university, rejects two proposals, sparking gossip about a myth: a woman declining three won't marry. When a third man asks, Yuni is forced to choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage or her dreams.
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Series
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Indonesian
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After going through a horrifying night 4 years ago when their dead mother came back to life and took away her youngest brother, 25 year-old Rini has been living with her other two siblings and their father in a crowded cheap apartment, thinking it's safer than living in a house by themselves. However, one day a heavy storm hits the area and the apartment becomes isolated from the outside world. Rini and her family find out that everybody's gone. When...
11) Death Knot
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Indonesian
Description
After their mother's death, two siblings are confronted by angry villagers claiming the woman was a practitioner of a dangerous brand of black magic.
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Indonesian
Description
Andini's intoxicating film BEFORE, NOW & THEN follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger mistress, Ino. The...
17) Merantau
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Language
Indonesian
Description
After a series of setbacks leave Yuda, a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau, homeless & uncertain about his new future in Jakarta, fate finally allows him to use his martial art skills to save a young orphan from human trafficking.
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Indonesian
Description
In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed of all her livestock by a gang of seven bandits. She then defends herself, setting out on a journey to find justice, empowerment, retribution and redemption. But the road is long, especially when she begins to be haunted by the ghost of her victim. A stunning Scope western set to a Morricone-inspired score, this unique tale of female cinematic revenge takes...
19) Bitter honey
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Indonesian
Description
A documentary presenting an intimate and emotionally charged portrait of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia. Following these families over a seven-year period, the film portrays the plight of Balinese co-wives, for whom marriage is frequently characterized by psychological manipulation, infidelity, domestic violence, and economic hardship.
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Indonesian
Description
A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of dawn, the SWAT team works its way up the building under cover...
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