Anatman Films

Anatman Films documents the long process behind the success of The Sounds Project, a six-year-old music festival. The Sounds Project was founded by Gerhana Banyu Biru, better known as Ghana. It began in 2015 as a campus and community music festival held every year in Jakarta, and in its sixth year it has grown into a national music festival.

Mother of the Sea is a short documentary about the struggle of Siti Darwati, a fisherwoman from Demak, Indonesia. Despite having to put her life on the line to make a living, she and her community have had to fight just to get recognition from the government.

Closing Eyes to See is a political and ecological meditation. Everything in this universe is berkesalingan, everything depends on everything else, and the film follows that idea through one life lived in and around politics.

Key is on probation at a production house. Her boss asks her to erase a mysterious figure from a video, a figure standing behind a “history expert” who is about to talk about the 1998 tragedy. She tries again and again, and fails, while strange things keep happening to her. A short horror film about the 1998 riots and the erasure of history.

Michelle is the second child and first daughter in a Mongondow family that migrated to Java long ago. After decades of running a family restaurant serving Manado cuisine, her mother announces that she wants to return to the village and pass the restaurant on to one of her children. Michelle, who has led the family most responsibly in keeping with the customs of Mongondow women, learns that her mother intends to give it to Peter, her older brother. As both feel entitled to succeed her, the friction between custom and gender norms leads Michelle to a discovery about her mother's past.

A family from the Balik Indigenous community in East Kalimantan shares a strong bond with the water and land. However, this sacred connection is being disrupted by the development of Indonesia's new capital city.