Movies by Arswendy Bening Swara

Two Blue Stripes

Two Blue Stripes

Young love leads to heartbreak for two star-crossed high school students when an unplanned pregnancy has agonizing consequences for their families.

Grave Torture

Grave Torture

When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.

Folklore: A Mother's Love

Folklore: A Mother's Love

A single mother and her young son discover a group of dirty and underfed children living in a mansion's attic. Upon saving them and returning them to their families, she has unknowingly snatched these children from their adopted mother - Wewe Gombel - and must now beware her vengeful wrath.

Shackled

Shackled

Elang, who lived in the flat, is often haunted by images of bizarre murders involving a killer with a rabbit costume. His efforts to solve the mystery and save the lives of the people he presumed in danger, has in turn trapped him in a downward spiral and he became a suspect himself. In proving his innocence, he will be forced to unveil a horrible and long-buried secret.

Missing Home

Missing Home

A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.

Khanzab

Khanzab

After his father was beheaded by ninjas in Banyuwangi '98, Rahayu was traumatized to the point where he found it difficult to concentrate on his prayers due to interference from the khanzab.

Two Blue Hearts

Two Blue Hearts

Reunited after years apart, a young couple faces a new chapter of parenthood as they navigate challenges in raising their 4-year-old son together.

Tale of the Land

Tale of the Land

May, an indigenous Dayak girl, is haunted by the trauma of her parents’ death in a land conflict, rendering her unable to set foot on the land. She lives in a floating house with her grandfather Tuha.

Possession: Kerasukan

Possession: Kerasukan

A young woman leaves her family for unknown reasons. Her husband, determined to find out the truth, starts following her. He initially suspects that a man is involved, but gradually, discovers more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a simple love affair.

Satan's Slaves

Satan's Slaves

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

Chants of Lotus

Chants of Lotus

This is an omnibus film, directed by 4 females and consists of 4 stories about women.

Solo, Solitude

Solo, Solitude

The Suharto regime has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting down democracy time and time again. Highly critical of the regime and unafraid to speak his mind, Wiji Thukul is a poet whose words are often yelled proudly by the crowd during political protests. When riots break out in Jakarta in 1996, he and a few other activists are accused to be responsible. Forced to flee, Wiji escapes to Pontianak in Borneo where he hides for eight months, sometimes living with complete strangers. There, he has to change his identity se...

Before, Now & Then

Before, Now & Then

Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, the story revolves around the domestic life of a woman whose personal life has been completely overturned by the political turmoil.

3 Nafas Likas

3 Nafas Likas

The story of a woman named Likas who gets special accomplishments and successes, as she holds fast to pledge to the three most important people in her life: her father Ngantari, her brother Njohre, and her husband Djamin. In Karo, North Sumatra, there is a custom: when a woman has to work, then the disgrace belongs to the family. However, Likas still wants to move forward. Therefore she opposes the custom. She attends school because she wants to be a teacher. She looses her mother because of stress. With the help of her brother, she could b...

Cadong

Cadong

Danan, a former regent, and Drajat, a former governor, share a prison cell as both have been convicted of corruption. Their conflicting attitudes towards corruption create tension within their confined space.