Edwin

Directing

Edwin

Born

1978-04-24 (48)

Place of birth

Surabaya, Indonesia

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Edwin was born in Surabaya, East Java (born April 24, 1978) is an Indonesian film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer who has received various international awards. He began his career by making short films, one of which, "Kara, Anak Sebatang Pohon" (2005), became the first Indonesian short film to be selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His feature film debut, "Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly" (2008), received critical acclaim and won several awards at international festivals. The film explores the issue of discrimination against the Chinese-Indonesian community with a unique and symbolic approach. In 2012, his film "Postcards from the Zoo" competed …

Known for

Borderless Fog poster
6.2

A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.

Borderless Fog

2024

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash poster
6.7

Ajo Kawir is a fighter who fears nothing, not even death. His raging urge to fight is driven by a secret: his impotence. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung, Ajo gets beaten black and blue, but he also falls head over heels in love. Will Ajo’s path lead him to a happy life with Iteung, and, eventually, his own peace of mind?

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

2021

Sleep No More poster
7.0

As two sisters clash over whether their mother’s sudden death at a wig factory was suicide or demonic possession, their brother's supernatural body-regenerative gift attracts a wandering ghost searching for a human host.

Sleep No More

2026

The Demon Tree poster
NR

Gina and Mutia are two best friends, searching for the whereabouts of Celuluk, a demon commonly known for residing in a papaya tree or Gedang Renteng. Gina, who was initially unenthusiastic, guided the Celuluk summoning procession half-jokingly and was instead faced with an unexpected situation.

The Demon Tree

2022

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband poster
4.7

Mar believes in the mysterious legend of the lovers Halimah and Sukab on the island of Sawai from a hundred years ago. She travels to Sawai to experience what Halimah once felt, hoping to find Sukab there.

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband

2013

(s)Aya poster
NR

AYA (25), is an influencer who is slowly losing her popularity. She decides to go on a holiday to an exotic coast resort, far from the demands of her work in Jakarta. Although she is far from the city, her manager, ANDHIKA (33), sends her a few products to review. Aya is then trapped in a contract, which obliges her to work.

(s)Aya

2022

Film credits

Behind the camera

Borderless Fog poster
6.2

A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.

Borderless Fog

2024

Borderless Fog poster
6.2

A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.

Borderless Fog

2024

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash poster
6.7

Ajo Kawir is a fighter who fears nothing, not even death. His raging urge to fight is driven by a secret: his impotence. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung, Ajo gets beaten black and blue, but he also falls head over heels in love. Will Ajo’s path lead him to a happy life with Iteung, and, eventually, his own peace of mind?

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

2021

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash poster
6.7

Ajo Kawir is a fighter who fears nothing, not even death. His raging urge to fight is driven by a secret: his impotence. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung, Ajo gets beaten black and blue, but he also falls head over heels in love. Will Ajo’s path lead him to a happy life with Iteung, and, eventually, his own peace of mind?

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

2021

Sleep No More poster
7.0

As two sisters clash over whether their mother’s sudden death at a wig factory was suicide or demonic possession, their brother's supernatural body-regenerative gift attracts a wandering ghost searching for a human host.

Sleep No More

2026

Sleep No More poster
7.0

As two sisters clash over whether their mother’s sudden death at a wig factory was suicide or demonic possession, their brother's supernatural body-regenerative gift attracts a wandering ghost searching for a human host.

Sleep No More

2026

The Demon Tree poster
NR

Gina and Mutia are two best friends, searching for the whereabouts of Celuluk, a demon commonly known for residing in a papaya tree or Gedang Renteng. Gina, who was initially unenthusiastic, guided the Celuluk summoning procession half-jokingly and was instead faced with an unexpected situation.

The Demon Tree

2022

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband poster
4.7

Mar believes in the mysterious legend of the lovers Halimah and Sukab on the island of Sawai from a hundred years ago. She travels to Sawai to experience what Halimah once felt, hoping to find Sukab there.

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband

2013

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband poster
4.7

Mar believes in the mysterious legend of the lovers Halimah and Sukab on the island of Sawai from a hundred years ago. She travels to Sawai to experience what Halimah once felt, hoping to find Sukab there.

Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband

2013

(s)Aya poster
NR

AYA (25), is an influencer who is slowly losing her popularity. She decides to go on a holiday to an exotic coast resort, far from the demands of her work in Jakarta. Although she is far from the city, her manager, ANDHIKA (33), sends her a few products to review. Aya is then trapped in a contract, which obliges her to work.

(s)Aya

2022

Pecel Chronicle poster
NR

On a deserted beach, Urip, a debt collector, visits a food stall run by Ambar. Urip ordered a plate of pecel that reminds him of a tragedy that happened a week ago. At that time, he and his brother Darto went to the stall, which was still being managed by Ambar’s mother, Mak Sati. They argued about how Mak Sati should pay her debts. Talks about debt heated up and resulted in a riot.

Pecel Chronicle

2022

Possessive poster
7.1

A student diver risks her scholastic future and relationship with her father when she dates a moody transfer student consumed by their romance.

Possessive

2017

Hulahoop Soundings poster
NR

Was it black magic that took him from her? Or the vision of her rival's swaying hips? Lana works at a phone sex company, and hula-hoops when calling her customers to make moaning sounds.

Hulahoop Soundings

2008

Hulahoop Soundings poster
NR

Was it black magic that took him from her? Or the vision of her rival's swaying hips? Lana works at a phone sex company, and hula-hoops when calling her customers to make moaning sounds.

Hulahoop Soundings

2008

Postcards from the Zoo poster
6.1

Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.

Postcards from the Zoo

2012

Postcards from the Zoo poster
6.1

Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.

Postcards from the Zoo

2012

No artwork available
NR

An adaptation of Hindia's debut studio album of the same name.

Menari dengan Bayangan: Evakuasi

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Rojer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rojer

2015

Uma de Raffa poster
NR

In a fishing village, The employees of Uma de Raffa, a nearly bankrupt resort, are getting anxious. However, a visit from the resort investor brings new hope. The situation suddenly gets complicated when said investor instantly dies from a heart attack.

Uma de Raffa

2022

Aruna & Her Palate poster
6.8

A food-loving epidemiologist Aruna has to go to the countryside to investigate the avian flu outbreak. A chef and a food critic also accompany her—this could turn out to be a food trip!

Aruna & Her Palate

2018

Bakmie Bangka Heri poster
NR

HERI (55) takes his daughter, FEMI (23) for a vacation to his hometown, the town of Bangka. He wants to show her the city that introduced him to Bakmi Bangka (a type of noodle dish), a dish that they sell in their family owned noodle shop in Jakarta. This is an important trip for Femi, as she is destined to inherit the shop when Heri retires. Femi is forced to go, even though she doesn’t want to. In fact, she has no interest in taking over the noodle shop.

Bakmie Bangka Heri

2022

No artwork available
NR

Part of a large installation resulting from a major study into explicitness, repetition, voyeurism and exploitation in colonialism and pornography, for which Edwin received his master's degree in Amsterdam. Based on archival material from the EYE collection; 16mm footage processed at Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam.

Hortus

2014

No artwork available
NR

Part of a large installation resulting from a major study into explicitness, repetition, voyeurism and exploitation in colonialism and pornography, for which Edwin received his master's degree in Amsterdam. Based on archival material from the EYE collection; 16mm footage processed at Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam.

Hortus

2014

No artwork available
NR

Part of a large installation resulting from a major study into explicitness, repetition, voyeurism and exploitation in colonialism and pornography, for which Edwin received his master's degree in Amsterdam. Based on archival material from the EYE collection; 16mm footage processed at Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam.

Hortus

2014

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly poster
5.6

Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he's from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

2008

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly poster
5.6

Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he's from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

2008

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly poster
5.6

Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he's from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

2008

A Sip and A Bite poster
NR

A movie about a young mother who’s trying to enjoy her me time by having a picnic in the pine forest. In reality, the tranquility she expected keeps on getting interrupted by many calls, video calls, chats about work and house affairs. Following the story, we learn that she is a property agent who runs an online florist shop, and also helps for her husband's koi fish business.

A Sip and A Bite

2022

Belkibolang poster
5.0

A compilation of nine short films and collected scenes created by young, up-and-coming Indonesian directors. Set during a single hot Jakarta night. Each short features an interaction between two characters and focuses on the strange situations one might get into while prowling the city after dark.

Belkibolang

2011

The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might poster
7.5

Two preteen boys discover their sexuality and the relation between power and sex.

The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might

2015

Love Story Not poster
NR

Love Story Not explores the daily lives of two female prositutes, Martha and Ning, focusing on the dynamics of the relationships with the people around them, particularly their relationship with Erik King, their shared lover.

Love Story Not

2015

9808: An Anthology of 10th Year Indonesian Reform poster
NR

In May 1998 something happened in Indonesia that no one had thought possible. After persistent demonstrations, primarily by students, the repressive era of President Suharto came to an end. Many film makers from the present generation were closely involved in this revolution at the time. In this omnibus film, ten film makers look back on events.

9808: An Anthology of 10th Year Indonesian Reform

2008

No artwork available
NR

A conversation that starts with music and email, then ends with possibilities that change the relationship between two people from a 'mother-daughter' relationship into a 'female-male' relationship.

A Very Boring Conversation

2006

No artwork available
NR

A conversation that starts with music and email, then ends with possibilities that change the relationship between two people from a 'mother-daughter' relationship into a 'female-male' relationship.

A Very Boring Conversation

2006

No artwork available
NR

A conversation that starts with music and email, then ends with possibilities that change the relationship between two people from a 'mother-daughter' relationship into a 'female-male' relationship.

A Very Boring Conversation

2006

A Very Slow Breakfast poster
10.0

When a boy is too confused to speak with his non-communicative family, words eventually lose their meaning. He decides to communicate with his dandruff and a cup of cold coffee instead. His father ignores these eccentricities, assuming it is just a ploy to get attention. Meanwhile, the boy's sister likes exercising seductively in front of men and is better able to capture her father's attention than her brother. Their mother is oblivious, perpetually talking to people on her mobile phone and the space the family occupies grows narrower and narrower.

A Very Slow Breakfast

2003

Marsiti & The Bulls poster
NR

Marsiti is a girl who dreams of winning a bull race. She was trained by her late father and inherited two buffaloes. Upon hearing her mother’s intention to sell the buffaloes to Haji Roni, her father’s rival, Marsiti stole the bulls with the help of her two best friends, Ponidi and Marjuki. The problem is, no female had ever been jockey for a bull race before. As the head of the race organizers, Haji Roni rejects Marsiti’s request. Marsiti secretly sets up a plan to continue take part in the race and prove that she is a skilled jockey.

Marsiti & The Bulls

2022

Following Diana poster
7.3

When Diana’s husband returns home one night with big news—he has taken on a second wife, and expects Diana to live in harmony with the situation—she does what is least expected and plans to make a life on her terms.

Following Diana

2015

Strangers poster
NR

A couple who have lived under the same roof for years without speaking a word, as if practicing a silent meditation. Marina, who came to Sawai Island in search of a legendary love story, and another foreigner, a young man with the same name as the legendary protagonist. The landscape of foreigners living difficult lives in Guro-dong, Garibong-dong, Sillim-dong, and Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Director Kobayashi Masahiro, beloved by Cannes, Edwin, the future of Indonesian cinema, and cineaste Jang Ryul unfold a story of "people who feel alone even when together."

Strangers

2013

Golden Age poster
NR

Arif and Yati, an old couple who are celebrating their anniversary by trying to make a remake photos when he proposed to her in a specific spot in Borobudur Temple.

Golden Age

2022