Topic: History of Indonesia

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast Adi Rukun · M.Y. Basrun · Amir Hasan · Inong Kemat

Synopsis Through Oppenheimer's footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian Genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as de identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who...

Direction Joshua Oppenheimer · Christine Cynn

Synopsis The Act of Killing (2012) is a chilling documentary that explores the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 through the eyes of the perpetrators. Director Joshua Oppenheimer invites former executioners to reenact their crimes in the style of their favorite Hollywood...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Mel Gibson · Sigourney Weaver · Linda Hunt · Michael Murphy

Synopsis The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) follows a young Australian journalist, Guy Hamilton, who arrives in Jakarta during the turbulent 1960s Sukarno regime. Assigned to cover the political unrest, he befriends a British photographer and his enigmatic Chinese-Australian assistant, Billy...

Direction Jim Taihuttu

Cast Martijn Lakemeier · Chico Kenzari · Jonas Smulders · Abel van Gijlswijk

Synopsis A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Robert Lemelson

Synopsis In one of the largest unknown mass-killings of the 20th century, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were secretly and systematically killed in 1965 when General Suharto began a bloody purge of suspected "communists" in Indonesia through a complex and...

Direction Hans Hylkema

Cast Jeroen Krabbé · Rik Launspach · Martin Schwab · Ramelan Bekkema

Synopsis Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing....

Direction Tom Zubrycki

Cast José Ramos-Horta

Synopsis This documentary follows East Timor's freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos Horta in the final tumultuous year of his campaign to secure independence for his country. The former Portuguese colony was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. Exiled...

Direction Hanung Bramantyo

Cast Ario Bayu · Lukman Sardi · Mathias Muchus · Ferry Salim

Direction Ariani Darmawan

Cast Maria Nadia · Hengky Hidayat · Arifin Nugraha · Adi Marsiela

Direction Riri Riza

Cast Nicholas Saputra · Jonathan Mulia · Thomas Nawilis · Christian Audi

Direction Anggun Priambodo · Ucu Agustin · Ifa Isfansyah · Otty Widasari

Synopsis In May 1998 something happened in Indonesia that no one had thought possible. After persistent demonstrations, primarily by students, the repressive era of President Suharto came to an end. Many film makers from the present generation were closely involved in...