Wildan Putra Pratama

Munawaroh, a village midwife, secretly cares for Mira, a former prostitute shunned by the community. As Mira’s pregnancy progresses, she becomes increasingly anxious about her safety. One evening, Mira collapses at a women-only village gathering, where Munawaroh pretends not to know her to protect her standing among the conservative women. However, when the situation becomes life-threatening, Munawaroh faces a moral dilemma: help Mira deliver her baby in front of the villagers or preserve her reputation.

Formed between factual and fictional, future and past, material and incorporeal, scientific and magic, Monisme reflects the intermingled relationships between people in Mount Merapi.

Set in a dystopian future, the film Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre (2024) opens with the fictional character Imago Organella, an experimental primatologist specializing in studying simians, apes and monkeys. Along with their companions, Xenomorphia and Madame Chauffeur, they free two yakis from captivity. Together, they embark on a surreal journey: they gather at a peculiar dinner where they eat a mysterious pudding elixir, visit an experimental biology facility, and explore each other’s subconscious as they traverse a prehistoric cave. Along the way, they celebrate the strange and unpredictable nature of evolution and knowledge, culminating in their return to Minahasa, where they face the reality of freedom.

Yanto takes his son Puput to school and stopped on the way at a small shop, where people put up lottery numbers. Yanto suspects that his motorbike’s license plate number will hit the jackpot. He tries to confirm asking the lottery number prediction to a madman who has lived under a tree for a long time. And it turns out that Yanto’s feelings were right, the madman also agreed that Yanto’s license plate number would come out that night. Without thinking, he bought the lottery number.