Seno Gumira Ajidarma

After being trained in the art of silat, a disciple gets sent on a journey by his mentor to take down a treacherous e-pupil with a villainous plan.

A martial arts master angers two of her protégés when she selects a third to take her post and the legendary weapon that comes with it.

Mar believes in the mysterious legend of the lovers Halimah and Sukab on the island of Sawai from a hundred years ago. She travels to Sawai to experience what Halimah once felt, hoping to find Sukab there.

It is a legend, shaped by a prolonged of economic crisis, in a country that once was, and its name is Indonesia. Sukab is a dog thief whose family has also become dogs. Sukab targeted dogs wherever he could, hunting down dogs that let their guard down, and would never have guessed how his fate would end up as a dish for a family.

This film tries to read the idea of film archiving in the mind of Misbach Yusa Biran. A character who gave his entire life to preserve and reinterpret the discourse of film as a source of Indonesian film history. The archives stored are entirely in Sinematek Indonesia.

"Her voice is so sexy. The woman's mouth is so great, her lips are red and wet. Every time I hear the sound of soap rubbing against my skin, I can't help but imagine a body that is so full and full. If only I hugged that body and threw it on the bed. If..." Before the husband had finished his sentence, his wife screamed so loudly that it could be heard throughout the alley. "Pleasengngngngng! My husband is fantasizing again! Pleasengngngngng!" It seems that without the sound of singing and the sound of people bathing, it is certain that the happiness of the households of the residents along the alley would be disturbed.

This film almost literally visualize three short stories on which it is based. The difficulty was to assign real spaces in the film for the world of short stories that does not require material reality. The question of ”What is love?” is stretched into three periods: the 70s, the 80s and the 90s. The story which is divided into three periods is trying to reveal the story of the main characters through three different periods of their lives.