Nur Hidayat

Movies

Love Like the Falling Rain
Director of Photography
Fearing rejection, a young man struggles to declare his feelings for his best friend, who soon falls for another man — until a fateful incident.
The Woven Path: Perempuan Tana Humba
Cinematography
The Woven Path: Perempuan Tana Humba is made up of two short movies that highlight the role of women in Sumba culture. The first part of the documentary, The Woven Path, is a 10-minute movie featuring picturesque footage and images that serve as a backdrop to two poems centering on the theme of mothers. The 30-minute Perempuan Tana Humba is a much more straightforward documentary, focusing more on Sumba culture and women in three short chapters: “Marapu”, “Belis” and “Perkawinan”.
Mooncake Story
Director of Photography
After a fateful meeting of a widow and a young entrepreneur with Alzheimer's, friendship between the two blossoms following the man's request to make traditional mooncakes.
Nyai: A Woman from Java
Director of Photography
Set in Indonesia's Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner's concubine, and realizes that she is living in a kind of prison, while she deals with loads of visitors to her residence. Director Garin Nugroho shows in a distinctive way how much effort a woman, deserted both by the colonial country's law and the colonized country's traditional culture, puts in to retain her dignity.
Kisah 3 Titik
Cinematography
This film tells the story of 3 female workers who have one name in common, Titik. They are Titik Sulastri, a widow with 2 children who works as a low-paid contract laborer at a garment factory, Titik Dewanti Sari, a spinster holding a prestigious position in a scandalous giant company, and Titik Kartika or Titik Tomboy, the son of a thug who works as a home factory worker. who is not afraid to die for justice. Not only sharing a name, the three dots are both trapped in a situation that makes their lives change 360 ​​degrees.
Jejak Darah
Director of Photography
Jessica, a student, is a friend of Mischa and her boyfriend, Reno. Unknown to them, Mischa is pregnant. Then, Mischa asks Jessica to drop her at a clinic without telling her the reason. She disappears without a word and is later found dead mysteriously. Five years after the incident, Jessica begins to see and feel peculiar things. She feels a spirit full of rage that seems to demand something from her. Then she sees the spirit of a little boy trying to show her something. Soon, all the clues lead to the abortion clinic that Mischa went to.
Jejak Darah
Director
Jessica, a student, is a friend of Mischa and her boyfriend, Reno. Unknown to them, Mischa is pregnant. Then, Mischa asks Jessica to drop her at a clinic without telling her the reason. She disappears without a word and is later found dead mysteriously. Five years after the incident, Jessica begins to see and feel peculiar things. She feels a spirit full of rage that seems to demand something from her. Then she sees the spirit of a little boy trying to show her something. Soon, all the clues lead to the abortion clinic that Mischa went to.
Anak-anak Borobudur
Director of Photography
The movie takes place in a village near the Borobudur Temple in the Central Java. The village people make their living by digging up stones and carving them. Amat (Adadiri Tanpalang), a ten-year-old boy is an intelligent and mature boy who helps his mute father with stone carving. One day, his teacher requests him to participate in a stone carving competition. He never finishes it; instead his father does it for him. He wins but he returns the prize to the school because he felt that he doesn’t deserve it. He claims that his father is the one who finished the statue for competition for him. While his friend, Siti (Acintyaswati Widianing) is the one who sent the stone carving to the competition.
The Anniversaries
Director of Photography
A gloomy portrait of a husband and wife relationship depicted through their wedding day by setting in a lift.
Kuldesak
Director of Photography
The film weaves around four stories all happening in metropolitan, dehumanizing Jakarta. In fact that is what it is about, the quality of meaninglessness of living in a place that turns people into zombies. In a place where meaning must be invented, these kids turn into the only place, the only culture they see worth tuning into: television and movies. Thus they slowly degenerate into the abysmal reinterpretation in a sort of sickening anti-hero, anti-social statements that goes absurdly a wrong turn.
Leaf on a Pillow
Director of Photography
The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.
...And the Moon Dances
Director of Photography
A story about a court musician student man named Ilalang who is faced by his trauma while studying court music.