Cahwati Sugiarto

Barred from pursuing his romantic partner by an authoritarian social hierarchy, a desperate young man orchestrates a perilous pact with a malevolent entity, inadvertently unleashing an apocalyptic, supernatural reckoning upon his domestic world.

In 1927 colonial Indonesia, a young woman trapped as a Dutch man's concubine fights for dignity in a world that sees her as nothing more than property.

Juno was just a child when his father abandoned him from their village in Central Java. Abandoned and alone, he joins a Lengger dance centre where men shape their feminine appearance and movement. The sensuality and sexuality that came from the dance, mixed with the violent sociopolitical Indonesian environment, forces Juno to move from village to village.

A rising young photo model named Weda finds her career on the brink of collapse due to a scandal involving her boyfriend, Bagas. In a desperate attempt to find a way out, Bagas takes Weda to his hometown—Rangkaspuna Village, a remote and isolated place once used as a dumping ground for unidentified corpses. The village still clings to dark mystical practices led by a shaman named Ni Itoh and her loyal servant, Rini. However, their initial intention to save Weda’s future quickly turns into a nightmare.

This movie follows the story of Dutch East Indies' (now Indonesia) first indigenous bishop, Albertus Soegijapranata SJ, from his inauguration until the end of Indonesia's independence war (1940-1949).

In 1912, Javanese activist Omar Said Tjokroaminoto co-founds the Sarekat Islam party to fight injustices of the Dutch East Indies' colonial regime.