Caitlin, a 6-year-old girl, navigates her life amid the commotion of her family’s arguments in a Hokkien dialect she doesn’t understand. She tries to make sense of the confusing pressures and emotions around her through the rhythmic sound of a ping-pong ball.
One day in 2030, on her escape from the Islamic State of Indonesia, a pregnant woman was trapped with her abusive lover, and a pastor whom they abducted to marry them.
Quarantine Tales is a collection of stories by 5 directors who tell the stories of life experienced during the pandemic.
A tourist from Germany who grew up in Jakarta as a young boy and wants to take a stroll down memory lane by visiting the house he used to live in with his parents.
A short film that follows Melodi, a cheerful old lady who, after being diagnosed of cancer, wants to realize her youthful dreams: to be a singer, and to make a music video to be screened on her funeral night.
Timur, a young accountant who falls in love with a woman named Mentari. Even though the two have differences, Timur and Mentari remain firm together.
One night, Intan visits Sekala Jewelry Store to make her wedding ring. There, she meets Kala, a mysterious jeweler who seems very familiar to Intan. How will fate lead them?
Callie is a 10 year-old girl who's intrigued when she saw two 15 year-old boys on her pick-up shuttle bus making a hand gesture which is considered as symbol related to sex. Callie doesn't know the meaning of the gesture and she can't stop thinking about it. From that moment onward, she insists to find out about it by asking adults around her.
This short 7-minute film tells a story of two lovebirds who find a lot of new things from behind the window and end in a certainty of their feelings.
A single Chinese-Indonesian mother have to save her daughter as the anti-Chinese riot rose near their neighborhood.
A couple of teenagers wake up in a car. They want to continue their trip, but were delayed by conversations between them and their surroundings.
In late 1990s Indonesia, amidst the nation’s rebirth after a crumbling authoritarian regime, three estranged Chinese Indonesian siblings grapple with their father’s sudden coma. Torn between personal ambitions and the unspoken duty to unify their fragmented family, they confront their intertwined destinies.
After her non-consensual intimate video goes viral, a teenage girl, who serves as a high school marching band’s color guard, decides to transfer to a new city & school in pursuit of a fresh start. But when her old and new schools face off in a marching band competition, her past traumas resurface.
