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Bayu Prihantoro Filemon

Bayu Prihantoro Filemon

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Biography

Bayu Prihantoro Filemon is an Indonesian cinematographer and director.

Known For

Ninavau
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Ninavau, a Kadazan based in West Malaysia, returns home to East Malaysia, Sabah for her sister’s wedding. Her family, deeply rooted in tradition and community values, sees her as a source of pride and a symbol of continuity. However, Ninavau carries with her a personal transformation that she has yet to share.

Ninavau

2025
Cheng Cheng Po
N/A

Four children get together to help the poorest of them to find a way to keep coming to school and attend the exams.

Cheng Cheng Po

2007
Ziarah
8.7

Mbah Sri (95 years old) is looking for the grave of her husband, who has been missing for decades, with one simple aim: she wants to rest in peace beside her husband’s grave.

Ziarah

2016
A Lady Caddy Who Never Saw a Hole in One
7.0

"A Lady Caddy Who Never Saw a Hole in One" displays a love story filled with absurdities regarding homeland, jealousy, hope, and fundamentally a statement about luck. Ning is a female caddy, while Mur is a man who is loyal to his homeland.

A Lady Caddy Who Never Saw a Hole in One

2013
Love Story Not
N/A

Love Story Not explores the daily lives of two female prositutes, Martha and Ning, focusing on the dynamics of the relationships with the people around them, particularly their relationship with Erik King, their shared lover.

Love Story Not

2015
Solo, Solitude
8.8

The Suharto regime has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting down democracy time and time again. Highly critical of the regime and unafraid to speak his mind, Wiji Thukul is a poet whose words are often yelled proudly by the crowd during political protests. When riots break out in Jakarta in 1996, he and a few other activists are accused to be responsible. Forced to flee, Wiji escapes to Pontianak in Borneo where he hides for eight months, sometimes living with complete strangers. There, he has to change his identity several times, but continues to write poetry and short stories under a pen name. In the meantime, in Solo, central Java, his wife, Sipon, lives with their two children under constant surveillance. In May 1998, Wiji Thukul is declared missing, a month before Suharto is deposed by his own people.

Solo, Solitude

2017
Mbok dan Bung
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Sarinah, Kusno's nanny (Bung Karno's nickname when he was a child) who taught him love for fellow human beings and care for the common people. The life values ​​taught by Sarinah had a strong influence on Kusno. Making him grow into a humanist and became the basis of Bung Karno's struggle in developing Indonesia.

Mbok dan Bung

2022
Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses
4.5

Ning, a young Catholic woman, takes up a better job with a furniture company, while her hapless husband—occasionally hawking gasoline—spends most of his time doing pretty much nothing. It is when Ning is required by her new job to go on a road trip with Mur, a male Muslim colleague, that the suffocation of her marriage gives way to an awakening of repressed desires. Set in Yogyakarta, this delicately observed mood piece and debut feature touches on unspoken issues of sexual repression and adultery in contemporary Indonesia.

Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses

2012
On the Origin of Fear
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Overdubbing the roles of both torturer and victim in one of Indonesia’s most contentious movies, a performer in a sound booth becomes the one-man embodiment of a whole era’s worst cruelties and sufferings.

On the Origin of Fear

2016
The Malediction
5.0

Halim considers himself a pious Islamic man. He wishes to marry a young woman in her village as a second wife to save her from miserable life. His wife doesn't agree. Halim contemplates on his own decision while a weird fantasy world starts to suck him in.

The Malediction

2017
Humba Dreams
6.5

At his mother's request, a university student returns to his home on the island of Sumba, where questions about his late father come to light.

Humba Dreams

2019
No image
N/A

The woman would be happy if the man sit to her right. But the man always prefers to be on the left.

Kamu di Kanan Aku Senang

2013
Vania on Lima Street
N/A

Young Vania faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicinal hall.

Vania on Lima Street

2022
The Day the Sky Roared
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A single Chinese-Indonesian mother have to save her daughter as the anti-Chinese riot rose near their neighborhood.

The Day the Sky Roared

2015
Say Hello to Yellow
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A small yellow object makes a child trapped in an illusion and pretense. The device that should serve to bring a much closer instead turned into farther the closeness. A innocent portrait on a modernity that arrogant and stutter.

Say Hello to Yellow

2011
No image
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SESERAHAN (The Wedding Gift) is a story about a bride who’s waiting for the groom. Unfortunately, the groom and his family met some problems on the way to the bride’s house. Anxiety and loneliness approached their hearts.

The Wedding Gift

2014
Reality, So?
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A boring NGO documentary. The film descends into chaos when a television crew arrives and starts toying with the meaning of reality in a village.

Reality, So?

2013
It's Not Raining Outside
N/A

A man and a woman bring a sofa into a room that is too small and don't know how or where to turn.

It's Not Raining Outside

2009
No image
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Enjoying her rising popularity, a singer slowly realizes that she has been deeply trapped into a submissive political system that controls every inch of her musical performance. To maintain her loyalty image, she proposes a political re-educational programme: training a choir of women prisoners.

Songsmith

Memoria
N/A

A mother tries to leave her memory of being a victim during the war in Timor Leste. A daughter tries to secure herself under a marriage. They are trying to find the real meaning of freedom. Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in Timor Leste in their dark years of independence. She sees that such possibility can happen as well to Flora just because of a bride price.

Memoria

2016