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Joko Anwar

Joko Anwar

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Biography

Joko Anwar (born January 3, 1976 in Medan, Indonesia) is a writer-director who started his career as a journalist and film critic. His works include The Forbidden Door (2009), which received the top prize at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and A Copy of My Mind (2015), which competed at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. His film Satan's Slaves (2017) was the highest grossing horror of all time in Indonesia.

Known For

Ghost in the Cell
8.2

A notorious prison, an invisible force begins killing inmates brutally, compelling enemy gangs and corrupt guards to work together as they try to survive the mounting bloodshed.

Ghost in the Cell

2026
Folklore
6.5

Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.

Folklore

2018
Satan's Slaves
6.7

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

Satan's Slaves

2017
Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams
6.6

Tales of supernatural sci-fi phenomena unfold in this collection of seven mind-bending, interconnected stories imagined by writer-director Joko Anwar.

Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams

2024
The Siege at Thorn High
7.3

Edwin promised to his sister on her deathbed to find her son she gave up a long time ago. Edwin's quest brought him to become a substitute teacher in Duri High School, Jakarta, a school for juvenile delinquents. There he must face the most violent students to find his nephew. When he eventually finds the boy, a city-wide riot erupts and Edwin is trapped in the school with the cruel kids out for his blood.

The Siege at Thorn High

2025
Smothered
6.8

After surviving an accident, Alif, a micro-painting artist, is told by his doctor that his memory hasn’t fully recovered. When a woman claiming to be his mother comes to visit, Alif begins to sense something is wrong—he doesn’t recognize her face, and he suspects she might not be his mother.

Smothered

2025
The Draft!
5.3

5 student. An old villa. Old well. Forbidden room. Dark secret of the past. A seemingly omnipotent evil. Survival is the key. Let the battle of wits begins...

The Draft!

2023
Grave Torture
6.6

When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.

Grave Torture

2024
Halfworlds
5.7

In the bustling streets and back alleys of Jakarta, a parallel world of bloodthirsty creatures from Indonesian mythology has lived alongside humans for generations. Taking on the appearance of humans themselves, the true identity of these "Demit" has been carefully concealed for centuries by a powerful family of mortals. The arrival of a mysterious supernatural event known only as the Gift will bring this hidden world to the surface. As the day of the Gift approaches, a young street artist named Sarah unexpectedly finds herself in the eye of the storm. Once the Demit realize who Sarah really is, and what she must do, humans and Demit are set on a collision course that could change the balance of their two worlds forever.

Halfworlds

2015
Impetigore
6.7

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

Impetigore

2019
Satan's Slaves 2: Communion
7.0

After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.

Satan's Slaves 2: Communion

2022
Tira
6.1

Suci needs to balance her budding career as a movie stuntwoman, maintaining her grades and scholarship on campus, while saving her own life. She's getting dragged into a complicated situation when she finds out that the ancient powers belong to highly-acclaimed people who are caught in a secret war.

Tira

2023
Sri Asih
6.5

Alana discover the truth about her origin: she’s not an ordinary human being. She may be the gift for humanity and become its protector as Sri Asih. Or a destruction, if she can’t control her anger.

Sri Asih

2022
The Queen of Black Magic
6.6

Revisiting the orphanage where they grew up, three men and their families discover a horrific supernatural presence lingering in their former home.

The Queen of Black Magic

2019
Switch
N/A

Emma and Febby, who have different personalities, work together to establish an alternative cinema called CineSpace. Until one night, an incident forces them to stay overnight in the cinema. In the morning, their bodies are swapped with each other. This incident forces them to adapt to life. The quiet Emma with Febby's body must approach Richard, a barista who is liked by Febby. Meanwhile, Febby with Emma's body is required to take a scholarship test and do Emma's work which she is not good at.

Switch

2017
Macabre
6.3

Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.

Macabre

2009
The Underdogs
6.0

A group of four friends decide to try and become Youtubers stars to overcome their unpopularity. Their differences put a strain on their friendship.

The Underdogs

2017
Joni's Promise
6.8

A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater, but the the whole city seems to conspire against him.

Joni's Promise

2005
The Forbidden Door
6.5

A successful sculptor's life is turned upside down when he starts to receive mysterious messages from someone asking for his help. As he digs deeper, he discovers a boy is being abused and has to choose between saving the boy or losing everything.

The Forbidden Door

2009
Grave Torture
5.4

Mourning the death of his serial killer father, a boy enters his dad's casket and soon finds himself buried alive.

Grave Torture

2012