Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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.

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.

Золотой посох: реликвия несравненной силы, желанной всеми. И вместе с тем, обучение технике, которая не имеет себе равных, она побеждает всех, кто осмеливается противостоять ее силе. Мастер Чемпака и ее четыре ученика - дети ее врагов, теперь наследники посоха - готовятся к тому, чтобы новый воин-хранитель вознесся. Акт злодейской измены грозит уничтожить клан и дестабилизировать существующий порядок...

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.

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.