Shallots & Garlic

Set after the events of the original cartoon series "Recess", this fan film takes a look at the characters in high school.

A rite-of-passage story through the eyes of Riza Gupta, a shy, nervous, young Indian woman, whose controlling mother has high hopes for her to be a doctor. However when her hero CXCX ChuChu hosts a rap-off, she plucks up the courage and runs to the battle in her sari.

After getting dropped from a writers’ festival for making controversial statements, an out-of-touch novelist must accept that he has become a living fossil.

In a post-New Order Jakarta, Native Indonesians (Pribumi) are legalized to perform the black magic ritual “Babi Ngepet” to balance their economy against Chinese Indonesians. When Kai, a Chinese Indonesian boy, needs money for university, he asks his best friend Nala, a Pribumi girl, to perform the ritual for him.

This fantasy drama is a modern retelling of an Indonesian myth of the same name. After her father's death that took a toll on the family's income, teenage Anjani struggles to regain control as her mother tries to sell the house, which doubled as her father's puppetry studio. Little did she know that he has been teaching her the ways of a shadow puppeteer in private, as women are not allowed to practice it. When she returns to the puppets, Anjani is able to reconvene with her father's spirit, learning one final lesson through the artform before she sets out to realize her own future - becoming a modern Srikandi.

A short film by Heather Perluzzo

Between the blurred lines of the seen and the unseen, Melati brings her American boyfriend, Sam, on a homecoming trip to Bali. When Melati starts wailing in her sleep, the Island of the Gods responds by revealing Sam’s true colors. Their relationship is put to the test as his sunburn worsens and she believes him to be possessed.

Under the endless agony of surviving as a photographer, Jade's (30) struggle to get recognition will push her lover and muse, Adah (20s), to offer their existence to the eternal judgment of love.