Sidi Saleh

Sidi Saleh

Birth : 1979-04-05, Jakarta, Indonesia

History

Sidi Saleh (born April 5th, 1979) is an Indonesian film director, who was also a film producer of Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly (2008), a film that had been presented in Rotterdam Film Festival, Busan, Tokyo and also in several other film festival selections. Sidi was the cinematographer for Postcards From The Zoo (2012), D’Bijis (2007), Kara Anak Sebatang Pohon, Yokudo/Taksu (Japan), and This Longing (Malaysia).

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Sidi Saleh

Movies

This Is Not A Love Story
Director of Photography
Marlina, a paralyzed girl found in a garbage truck by Jaya, a street vendor. Then Jaya decide.d to rescued her and take care her in his simple house. One day, someone said that the girl was from a rich family and for someone who found her and gave it back to her family gonna get a big reward. Will Jaya give Marlina back to her family after developing a great love when taking care of her?
This Is Not A Love Story
Producer
Marlina, a paralyzed girl found in a garbage truck by Jaya, a street vendor. Then Jaya decide.d to rescued her and take care her in his simple house. One day, someone said that the girl was from a rich family and for someone who found her and gave it back to her family gonna get a big reward. Will Jaya give Marlina back to her family after developing a great love when taking care of her?
This Is Not A Love Story
Writer
Marlina, a paralyzed girl found in a garbage truck by Jaya, a street vendor. Then Jaya decide.d to rescued her and take care her in his simple house. One day, someone said that the girl was from a rich family and for someone who found her and gave it back to her family gonna get a big reward. Will Jaya give Marlina back to her family after developing a great love when taking care of her?
This Is Not A Love Story
Director
Marlina, a paralyzed girl found in a garbage truck by Jaya, a street vendor. Then Jaya decide.d to rescued her and take care her in his simple house. One day, someone said that the girl was from a rich family and for someone who found her and gave it back to her family gonna get a big reward. Will Jaya give Marlina back to her family after developing a great love when taking care of her?
Mama Mama Jagoan
Director
Myrna, whose husband just passed away, struggling with depression. She just found her purpose once again when she received a postcard from Monang, her son which ran away from home because of conflicts with his father. Accompanied by two of her best friends, Dayu and Hasnah, Myrna decided to search for Monang in Bali, with the postcard as their only clue of Monang's whereabouts. Once they arrived in Bali, they realized it is not easy to find Monang, they had many unfortunate events which lead them to jail, until they have arguments with each ocher which caused their life-long friendship breaking apart. Will Myrna succeeded to find Monang? How will their friendship stands?
Game of Nine
Producer
During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration. Lucy will soon marry Edy, and prepare for her dream wedding. Just before the wedding party, an uninvited Siska appeared. Edy introduces Siska as a cousin from out of town. Nobody knows that she is Edy's ex-lover and Edy is beware of Siska so as not to spoil her marriage, even more so realizing that she is the daughter of a powerful businessman. Their wedding day which Lucy had beautifully prepared had to end tragically.
Game of Nine
Director of Photography
During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration. Lucy will soon marry Edy, and prepare for her dream wedding. Just before the wedding party, an uninvited Siska appeared. Edy introduces Siska as a cousin from out of town. Nobody knows that she is Edy's ex-lover and Edy is beware of Siska so as not to spoil her marriage, even more so realizing that she is the daughter of a powerful businessman. Their wedding day which Lucy had beautifully prepared had to end tragically.
Game of Nine
Writer
During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration. Lucy will soon marry Edy, and prepare for her dream wedding. Just before the wedding party, an uninvited Siska appeared. Edy introduces Siska as a cousin from out of town. Nobody knows that she is Edy's ex-lover and Edy is beware of Siska so as not to spoil her marriage, even more so realizing that she is the daughter of a powerful businessman. Their wedding day which Lucy had beautifully prepared had to end tragically.
Game of Nine
Director
During a Chinese wedding hosted by a powerful business man, unsettling incidents occur which disrupt the celebration. Lucy will soon marry Edy, and prepare for her dream wedding. Just before the wedding party, an uninvited Siska appeared. Edy introduces Siska as a cousin from out of town. Nobody knows that she is Edy's ex-lover and Edy is beware of Siska so as not to spoil her marriage, even more so realizing that she is the daughter of a powerful businessman. Their wedding day which Lucy had beautifully prepared had to end tragically.
Maryam
Screenplay
Maryam is a Muslim stuck in the ritual of another religion with someone who has autism while she is experiencing a difficult inner pressure herself. Will she be able to handle all this pressure at the same time?
Maryam
Camera Operator
Maryam is a Muslim stuck in the ritual of another religion with someone who has autism while she is experiencing a difficult inner pressure herself. Will she be able to handle all this pressure at the same time?
Maryam
Story
Maryam is a Muslim stuck in the ritual of another religion with someone who has autism while she is experiencing a difficult inner pressure herself. Will she be able to handle all this pressure at the same time?
Maryam
Director
Maryam is a Muslim stuck in the ritual of another religion with someone who has autism while she is experiencing a difficult inner pressure herself. Will she be able to handle all this pressure at the same time?
Postcards from the Zoo
Director of Photography
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.
Belkibolang
Director of Photography
A compilation of nine short films and collected scenes created by young, up-and-coming Indonesian directors. Set during a single hot Jakarta night. Each short features an interaction between two characters and focuses on the strange situations one might get into while prowling the city after dark.
Belkibolang
Director
A compilation of nine short films and collected scenes created by young, up-and-coming Indonesian directors. Set during a single hot Jakarta night. Each short features an interaction between two characters and focuses on the strange situations one might get into while prowling the city after dark.
Takut: Faces of Fear
Director of Photography
"Takut" was born from the Komodo Films, and is a compilation of short horror films from seven directors who produced six film segments in one anthology. The short film was directed sequentially by Rako Prijanto, Riri Riza, Ray Nayoan, Robby Ertanto, Raditya Sidharta, and The Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto).
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
Director of Photography
Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he’s from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
Producer
Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he’s from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.
Trip to the Wound
Director of Photography
Shila met Carlo one night, on a bus. Shila is a collector. She collects stories of scars. Shila is always longing for the existence of a wound. This is a trip Carlo can never forget.
D'Bijis
Director of Photography
Asti is obsessed to unite all his elder brother's friends of rock band named The Bandits. She started to get close to them one by one by reminding the memory of his brother Bonnie, Asti got Damon, the guitarist who now works in a dangdut bar to join in. Then they ask Gendro-the former drummer of the Bandits- now married and having financial difficulties. Then, they ask Bule, who had became a transsexual. In the mean time, Soljah, the keyboardist who's put on too much weight, is missing. They could not find him anywhere. The conflict comes between the story to get a vocalist and the love story of Asti and Damon.
A Very Boring Conversation
Director of Photography
A conversation that starts with music and email, then ends with possibilities that change the relationship between two people from a 'mother-daughter' relationship into a 'female-male' relationship.
Alexandria
Assistant Camera
Bagas keeps his feeling towards his neighbor and childhood friend, Alexandria, but he is unable to express it out. Things change when Bagas realizes that his best friend, Rafi, moves ahead and declares his love to Alexandria, much to her acceptance.
Kara, Anak Sebatang Pohon
Director of Photography
Kara is a little girl living in an isolated place. Her father disappeared after Ronald killed her mother. A journalist's invasion of her life makes her decide to seek out Ronald and ask him the ultimate question.
Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog
Director of Photography
Silent short (with music and inter-titles) telling an old Indonesian folk tale of a princess who ends up married to a dog.