Dara Asia Nashwa Aliela

A movement to criminalize men with long hair, commonly referred to as "gondrong". during Indonesia’s New Order era gave rise to various negative stereotypes that continue to be attached to long-haired men to this day. However, this criminalization stemmed from motivations far deeper than mere concerns over hairstyle and was closely tied to the authoritarian leadership of the period. These underlying factors are explored in a short documentary titled “Gondrongisme.”

Starting from Ardan, an unemployed and lazy teenager who ignored his mother's reply when he woke up from sleep, making him unconsciously trapped in a subconscious space that kept repeating itself. Meeting two nosy angels who were playing pranks on him, seemed to slowly help him to reorganize the mistakes he had made.