
Directing
Nia Dinata
Born
1970-03-04 (56)
Place of birth
Jakarta, Indonesia
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Nurkurniati Aisyah Dewi (born 4 March 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia), better known as Nia Dinata, is an award-winning Indonesian film director. Her movies are known for tackling subjects controversial or "risky" in Indonesia such as homosexuality, migrant workers, and polygamy. Dinata began her film career directing video clips and commercials in the mid-1990s until directing the made-for-television Mencari Pelangi in 1998. Three years later, she directed her first feature film, Ca-bau-kan, after founding her own production house. The next film she directed, 2003's Arisan!, was critically acclaimed and one of her most successful works. Her third directorial effort, 2006's Berbagi Suami, was co…
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7.0Threatened by Kanjeng Badai and his militant and homophobic political party, a country's safety depends on Adam, a hairdresser.
Madame X
2010
NREmma and Febby, who have different personalities, work together to establish an alternative cinema called CineSpace. Until one night, an incident forces them to stay overnight in the cinema. In the morning, their bodies are swapped with each other. This incident forces them to adapt to life. The quiet Emma with Febby's body must approach Richard, a barista who is liked by Febby. Meanwhile, Febby with Emma's body is required to take a scholarship test and do Emma's work which she is not good at.
Switch
2017
NRElinah (14 years old) is seven months pregnant and learning to be a stay at home wife. While living with her much older husband in a foreign city far away from her village, Elinah often chatted with the baby in her tummy to fight boredom and loneliness. In the midst of an annoying day, Elinah and her baby decide to go home, to each of their respective homes.
Elinah
2018
5.1Indonesia 1998, Har, a lonesome boy, waiting for his mother who works as a domestic worker in Hong Kong coming back home in a few days. Har life with his jobless father who busy helping the village authorities preparing the first electricity installation in his village. Meanwhile, far from Har village, the big thing happening: chaotic people all around the Capital to depose the dictator president in the era.
Har
2018
As a developing country, Indonesia faces challenges stemming from its internal diversity—ranging from ethnic groups, languages, cultures, education, and religion. Many people work in the arts under the guise of pornography, leading many to confuse art with pornography. It is the artists who bear the brunt of this. In this documentary, viewers can learn about the opinions of various segments of the arts community regarding the Pornography Act, as expressed through their intellectual perspectives.
Telanjang?
2006
6.8A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater, but the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
Joni's Promise
2005
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
As a developing country, Indonesia faces challenges stemming from its internal diversity—ranging from ethnic groups, languages, cultures, education, and religion. Many people work in the arts under the guise of pornography, leading many to confuse art with pornography. It is the artists who bear the brunt of this. In this documentary, viewers can learn about the opinions of various segments of the arts community regarding the Pornography Act, as expressed through their intellectual perspectives.
Telanjang?
2006
6.8A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater, but the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
Joni's Promise
2005
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Behind the camera
7.0Threatened by Kanjeng Badai and his militant and homophobic political party, a country's safety depends on Adam, a hairdresser.
Madame X
2010
NRElinah (14 years old) is seven months pregnant and learning to be a stay at home wife. While living with her much older husband in a foreign city far away from her village, Elinah often chatted with the baby in her tummy to fight boredom and loneliness. In the midst of an annoying day, Elinah and her baby decide to go home, to each of their respective homes.
Elinah
2018
5.1Indonesia 1998, Har, a lonesome boy, waiting for his mother who works as a domestic worker in Hong Kong coming back home in a few days. Har life with his jobless father who busy helping the village authorities preparing the first electricity installation in his village. Meanwhile, far from Har village, the big thing happening: chaotic people all around the Capital to depose the dictator president in the era.
Har
2018
6.8A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater, but the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
Joni's Promise
2005
5.0Founded by the power couple, Ali and Sofia Khan, The Light is a training center that claims to be a self-betterment organization, focused on helping youths take charge of their life for a brighter future. But when three best friends join this organization, they soon realize that dark shadows lurk behind The Light and must find a way to escape.
A World Without
2021
5.0Founded by the power couple, Ali and Sofia Khan, The Light is a training center that claims to be a self-betterment organization, focused on helping youths take charge of their life for a brighter future. But when three best friends join this organization, they soon realize that dark shadows lurk behind The Light and must find a way to escape.
A World Without
2021
5.0Founded by the power couple, Ali and Sofia Khan, The Light is a training center that claims to be a self-betterment organization, focused on helping youths take charge of their life for a brighter future. But when three best friends join this organization, they soon realize that dark shadows lurk behind The Light and must find a way to escape.
A World Without
2021
NRANANDA (in French: La Javanaise) is a fictional story, based on historical figures and events, of a young girls journey to find freedom and return home. In 1893, free-spirit ANANDA (13), lives happily with her little sister Tika (8) and their grandmother EMBAH (53) in a seaside village in Java. Yearning to be a shaman like Embah, Ananda enters the forbidden jungle and encounters a fierce TIGER. Suddenly, the girl and the tiger are both captured by traffickers. Ananda is sent to Paris, France where she works as a model and servant for a bohemian painter who abuses her. On a quest to return home, Ananda escapes, disguises herself as a boy, and encounters the Tiger again at the Cirque Fernando, where Ananda finds a new family among the misfits of the circus.
Ananda
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NRA musical drama inspired by the 1956 classic, Tiga Dara. It tells the story of three sisters—Gendis, Ella, and Bebe—who live with their father and grandmother after their mother passed away. Each of them has a different personality, but they are all independent and focused on their careers. However, their grandmother becomes worried because her granddaughters are still unmarried. She then tries to find them suitable partners, which leads to various comedic situations, family conflicts, and questions about love and freedom.
Three Sassy Sisters
2016
NRA musical drama inspired by the 1956 classic, Tiga Dara. It tells the story of three sisters—Gendis, Ella, and Bebe—who live with their father and grandmother after their mother passed away. Each of them has a different personality, but they are all independent and focused on their careers. However, their grandmother becomes worried because her granddaughters are still unmarried. She then tries to find them suitable partners, which leads to various comedic situations, family conflicts, and questions about love and freedom.
Three Sassy Sisters
2016
NRA musical drama inspired by the 1956 classic, Tiga Dara. It tells the story of three sisters—Gendis, Ella, and Bebe—who live with their father and grandmother after their mother passed away. Each of them has a different personality, but they are all independent and focused on their careers. However, their grandmother becomes worried because her granddaughters are still unmarried. She then tries to find them suitable partners, which leads to various comedic situations, family conflicts, and questions about love and freedom.
Three Sassy Sisters
2016
5.0After losing a World Cup bet, two hapless buddies must use their wits to pay off their debt to a big Jakarta bookie.
Because of Soccer
2008
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Love for Share 2.0
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5.8Jojo is an unemployed. He decides to become a gigolo for an escort company. Everything works smoothly until he falls in love with a medical student.
Quickie Express
2007
6.0Pipin Kartika is obsessed to get a foreigner / "bule", to be her husband. Frustrated of meeting many jerk bules in Jakarta, Pipin decided to move to Bali to find love.
Kenapa Harus Bule?
2018
6.0Between divorce, bad relationships and coming out as gay, a group of affluent friends realize that none of their lives are as easy as they seem.
The Gathering
2003
6.0Between divorce, bad relationships and coming out as gay, a group of affluent friends realize that none of their lives are as easy as they seem.
The Gathering
2003
A seven-year-old Indonesian stand-up comedian knows precisely how to milk the parent-child relationship onstage.
Chocolate Comedy
2013
1.0This film is set in the aftermath of the 2002 Bali bombings. Focusing on three different perspectives, it looks at how these individuals find peace in their lives. Note: this film was banned from screening in Bali. A rating was declined by the Bali censorship board, due to concerns the film might have stirred up tensions in Indonesia.
Long Road To Heaven
2007
Sandy is a beautiful transgender who works as a seamstress. She has found the love of her life and so excited to get the chance to make her own wedding gown.
The Wedding Gown
2013
Sandy is a beautiful transgender who works as a seamstress. She has found the love of her life and so excited to get the chance to make her own wedding gown.
The Wedding Gown
2013
Sandy is a beautiful transgender who works as a seamstress. She has found the love of her life and so excited to get the chance to make her own wedding gown.
The Wedding Gown
2013
NRThe documentary follows a Javanese queer mother who redefines tradition and inclusivity through the iconic character of Raminten, forming a vibrant chosen family and a legacy of empowerment at the famed Raminten Cabaret.
Raminten Universe
2025
NRThe documentary follows a Javanese queer mother who redefines tradition and inclusivity through the iconic character of Raminten, forming a vibrant chosen family and a legacy of empowerment at the famed Raminten Cabaret.
Raminten Universe
2025
10.0Determined to discover her roots, a young woman travels to Indonesia and pieces together her parents' unconventional love story.
Ca-Bau-Kan
2002
10.0Determined to discover her roots, a young woman travels to Indonesia and pieces together her parents' unconventional love story.
Ca-Bau-Kan
2002
10.0Determined to discover her roots, a young woman travels to Indonesia and pieces together her parents' unconventional love story.
Ca-Bau-Kan
2002
NRFollows the struggle of Mama Halosina, a mother in the interior of Kurima, the central mountains of Papua (near Wamena), who has to support her four children alone after being abandoned by her husband who remarried.
Tanah Mama
2015
10.0Three first year junior high school teenagers lives closely in a housing complex since childhood.
Langit Biru
2011
6.6A group of friends reunites for a vacation amid nature, where they laugh about their shared history and bond over difficult truths.
The Gathering 2
2011
6.6A group of friends reunites for a vacation amid nature, where they laugh about their shared history and bond over difficult truths.
The Gathering 2
2011
6.6A group of friends reunites for a vacation amid nature, where they laugh about their shared history and bond over difficult truths.
The Gathering 2
2011
NRA quirky yet insecure 17-year-old girl named Maria V., who’s raised in a Catholic family and school, always masturbates before she goes to sleep. One day, her school arranges a church camp, in which requires all of its students to pray and spend the night together in a secluded place. A few days before the camp, Maria V. finds out that she has to share her room with a fellow student, Maria P. - the smartest, most beautiful and religious girl in her school. To save her pride, Maria V. struggles to fall asleep that night without having to masturbate.
Sleep Tight, Maria
2015
5.9Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
Love for Share
2006
5.9Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
Love for Share
2006
NRFour women, four cities, four unflinching stories—this powerful omnibus film weaves together the struggles of women across Indonesia, from a midwife battling corruption to a teenager caught in betrayal, a mother fighting for her child, and a widow facing the harsh truth of survival.
Chants of Lotus
2008
NRFour women, four cities, four unflinching stories—this powerful omnibus film weaves together the struggles of women across Indonesia, from a midwife battling corruption to a teenager caught in betrayal, a mother fighting for her child, and a widow facing the harsh truth of survival.
Chants of Lotus
2008
Grady (12 years old) is an indigo child with the ability to heal illnesses. This talent is a blessing that Grady gladly uses. He enjoys helping those in need. Because of this, he never asks for anything in return. Perhaps that's why he doesn't want to become a doctor. In addition to helping others, Grady also has another very important mission: he dreams of helping to heal the Earth by planting many trees.
Grady, the Healer
2013
