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A Sumatran elephant calf is being hunted for smuggling. This incident caught the attention of five children who were camping nearby. Tensions rise when elephant hunters target the five children. In the dense forest, they have to self-report by car. When they arrived in the city, they secretly took the Sumatran elephant calf into the freight train. The five children had the courage to save the Sumatran elephant calf from the elephant hunters.
Cinematography
'Isyarat' takes the innovative approach of bringing together five young directors, Asmirandah, who made Teman Bayangan (Shadow friend); Monty Tiwa (Lost and Found); Adhyatmika (Flora); Donny Alamsyah (Tanda Bahaya or Alarm); and Reza Rahadian (Gadis Indigo or Indigo girl), to create a series of separate but interconnected supernatural tales.
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Obama Anak Menteng is a 2010 biopic drama film written and directed by Indonesian author Damien Dematra in collaboration with John de Rantau. The film is based on Dematra's novel by the same name. Both the book and the film are a fictionalized account of the childhood of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, who lived in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971.
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Yanti searches for her missing son. Thomas, a father, wants to reestablish his relationship with his son, while Mongki, a street child, has to deal with the violent and unjust life of street children and the underworld. The three characters are finally brought together after having been separated for years.
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A woman with a dark past dedicates herself to taking care of multi-handicapped children. When a young musician comes into her life, she is forced to face her history, or it will destroy her future.
Director of Photography
Ca Bau Kan relates the saga of Giok Lan, an Indonesian woman living in the Netherlands, who returns to Indonesia in search of her roots. Her mother, Tinung, a village woman, was known as ‘Ca Bau Kan’ – a word used to describe a courtesan who entertained Chinese men in colonial Indonesia. Giok Lan’s father, Tan Peng Liang (Ferry Salim), was an immigrant Chinese merchant who had a very successful tobacco business in Batavia. She becomes deeply involved with him, and causes a scandal when he has Tinung move in with his family. The film is set between 1930 and 1950, and unfolds the story of Giok Lan and her parents: Tinung and Tan Peng Liang where Tan is eventually ruined when his rivals begin to attack him. This is owing to the significant contrast in socio-economic and cultural background, as the love of these last two characters face a series of difficulties.
