Djenar Maesa Ayu
Birthday: Born in 1973-01-14 in Jakarta, Indonesia
Deathday: Alive
Djenar Maesa Ayu (born January 14, 1973 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian novelist, short story writer, actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
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Twisted 2
Character: Nyai Jatmiko
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Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams
Character: Manager
Tales of supernatural sci-fi phenomena unfold in this collection of seven mind-bending, interconnected stories imagined by writer-director Joko Anwar....
Kenapa Gue?
Character: Ibu Nora
Danu, a student who suddenly killed himself during an online class session because He couldn't stand the bullying that other students did. A few days after his funeral, a mysterious figure began to terrorize and attack those deemed responsible for Danu's death. A group of Danu's friends and bullies, known as "The Circle", must choose between confessing their sins or facing a mysterious figure who threatens their lives....
Pertaruhan: The Series
Character: Mamamia
After leaving prison, Elzan struggled to earn money through street fighting and becoming a debt collector, in order to redeem his family's house which was confiscated by the bank. However, defending the family home feels useless, because Elzan has to be in direct conflict with Ical, his own younger brother. With the help of Ara and Rio, Elzan fights for the integrity of his family by risking everything....
Sianida
Character: Vania
Amelia and Jenny have always been in love. Yet, Amelia's arranged marriage with David forced them apart. Jenny was in despair till she meets Amelia again and ended up having to watch her poisoned right in front of her eyes. As David accused her of the unspeakable crime, Jenny stands by faith that David is the actual killer. David stirred all eyes into suspecting Jenny. When things got tangled, will Jenny be able to prove her innocence?...
Movie Credits
Opera Jakarta
Character:
Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general....
Harlot's Prayer
Character: Ami
Kiran, a Muslim woman, loses her faith and falls into promiscuity after a hard-line Islamic organization, meant to strengthen her faith, ends up depriving her of it....
Dealova
Character:
Libby, a female basketball player, is caught in confusion when she is faced with two boys who are quite different in age from her and who both love Libby....
Night of Hell
Character: Marni
Trapped in a remote village, three friends must survive attacks from a horde of evil spirits over three nights....
Grave Torture
Character: Inayah
When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest....
Ghost Writer 2
Character: Kirana Widuri
The success of her second novel made Naya famous. Unfortunately she is more labeled as a psychic than a writer. This makes Naya resentful and reluctant to deal with the haunted world again. However, everything changed when her future husband Vino suddenly died....
The Corpse Washer
Character: Bu Siti
Lela, a mortician, finds something odd about the body of her mother who died suddenly. Trapped in sacred tension and a tense horror journey, Lela discovers another oddity in the body of the corpse she was bathing....
Melodi
Character: Wita
Ruli and Mili are brother and sister who live in suburb of Jakarta Mega City with his father who became a single parent. They live their life full of joy .. Ruli who have a nice voice works as a waitress at a coffee shop. Mili who like drawing always follow wherever his brother go. In the middle efforts to help his father find additional costs, he met Chika, daughter of Mrs. Waita which became part of the disaster. Unexpectedly encounter them develop into true friendship and deep spiritual relat...
Mangkujiwo 2
Character: Nyi Kenanga
After Cokrokusumo's death, Uma tries to deal with the trauma while looking for answers to the mystery of the Kuntilanak's involvement in her life. Meanwhile, Brotoseno, Nyi Kenanga and Karmila are taking heinous methods to bring Mangkujiwo to the pinnacle of glory, where blood will again be spilled....
Marni: The Story of Wewe Gombel
Character: Sumiyati
After moving her family to a remote village, a busy single mother loses her son, who seems to have been abducted by a vengeful spirit....
THE RAGE, Blood From The Sea
Character: Mbak Endang
A woman named Rara who experiences a strange incident on the South coast. A murder far from humanity sets in motion a vicious chain of revenge....
The Mediterranean Sea
Character: Maya
After a student's scholarship falls through, her academic dreams lie in a life-changing offer: marry into a family in exchange for tuition....
Janji Darah
Character: Ibu Dinda
Two people who once made a promise to each other, faced a very difficult problem after death separated them, because their promise was to always protect each other wherever they are....
Remember The Flavor
Character: Citra Dewi / Ibu Melodi
Dimas is busy taking care of his dad's ice cream shop. Melodi is on her way to Jakarta to be a musician. Both of them are best friends since high school and secretly like each other. The film chronicles their story three years later....
Kartini: Princess of Java
Character: RA. Moeryam
A woman of nobility battles patriarchal norms in order to improve educational access for women in early 1900s Indonesian society....
Daysleepers
Character: Niken
It tells the story of two people who choose to live on slightly different frequencies from other people. Andrea (Dinda Kanyadewi) has a unique and highly specialized job that requires her to work alone from night to morning in a near-empty office building. Leon (Khiva Iskak) is a writer, who goes out at night after his son falls asleep to write at his favorite coffee shop across from Andrea’s building. The two could begin to notice each other’s presence to their respective windows and they start...
Kafir: A Deal with the Devil
Character: Dokter RS
After the bizarre death of their father, two siblings must uncover the root cause of their mother's sudden paranormal terror to save her....
Kenapa Harus Bule?
Character: Nay / Villa Owner's Wife
Pipin 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....
Something In Between
Character: Maya's Mom
Tormented by vivid dreams, a man tries to follow his visions to find the whereabouts of a high school couple he can't stop thinking about....
Dancing in the Rain
Character: Katrin
Banyu, a boy with autism spectrum disorder, starts a beautiful friendship with Radin and Kinara. When they all grown up, a tragic event occurred, putting their friendship on the edge of destruction....
Asih
Character: Sekar
Years after a woman tragically takes her own life and drowns her baby, a couple expecting a child finds themselves terrorized by a sinister ghost....
Keira
Character: Gadis Pantai
It tells a story about a girl with dissociative identity disorder and how it affects her life and those around her....
The Lost Suitcase
Character: Noni
Yahya, a low-class employee, finds a suitcase on an empty street. The suitcase is suspected to contain robbed money from a bank. This results in everybody giving the once invisible Yahya the royal treatment, with the hope to get a little reward in return. But Yahya is determined to keep the suitcase, until a series of events in his life prompt him to consider his decision....
Gundala
Character: Rich Woman
Sancaka has lived on the streets since his parents left him. Living a hard life, Sancaka survives by thinking about his own safety. When the condition of the city gets worse and injustice rages throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he continues to live to look after himself or rise to become their oppressed hero....
Lampor: The Flying Casket
Character: Mrs. Endro
Edwin and Netta with their two children, Adam and Sekar going to Netta's hometown at Temanggung. Netta were suspected as the cause of Lampor terror at her hometown, a demon who bring a flying casket....
Purple Love
Character: Bu Lela
A heartbroken man gets a boost of new (but familiar) feelings when his buddies ask a woman who runs a motivational agency to pull him out of a slump....
Love Potpourri
Character: Nila
Eight stories are interwoven including the story of a child who works hard just to get a bottle of clean water and a pair of roller skates. Then there are siblings who sell pirated DVDs and start fighting each other when the younger one only wants to drink Starbucks coffee. The third story is about the daughter of a prostitute who has a crush on her moral studies teacher. Then we meet a Japanese man who is hungry for true love and meets a karaoke girl and we hear the story of a lowly-paid televi...
SAIA
Character: Saia/Woman
SAIA is a picture of a woman who holds trauma due to unpleasant mental and physical experiences. Every day Saia, a 35-year-old woman, peeks at a man's sexual assault against a woman who happens across her room through a window and records it with a video camera. Every development of the situation witnessed affects the psychological and physical side. Until one day he saw a murder happen, and after that there was no more activity. After a while of waiting, he approached the room. Turns out empty....
Mangkujiwo
Character: Nyi Kenanga
After being removed from his position at the Keraton by Cokrokusumo, Brotoseno intends to take revenge. Brotoseno invites a woman named Kanti who is also filled with hatred for Cokrokusumo....
Tersanjung: The Movie
Character: Bobby Sadewo's Mother
After growing up in a tumultuous household, Yura finds herself in a love triangle with two close friends as she faces a personal and financial crisis....
Di Bawah Umur
Character: Bu Kusuma
A new student, Lana comes to the most favorite high schools in Jakarta. Her innocent and fresh beauty catches the eyes of the young guys there, especially the school’s bad boy, Aryo....
Bidadari Mencari Sayap
Character: Andrea
Reza and Angela are trapped in differences in beliefs and culture. Reza is Moslem and of Arab descent married Angela is Chinese descent....
Anak-anak Borobudur
Character: Mi
The movie takes place in a village near the Borobudur Temple in the Central Java. The village people make their living by digging up stones and carving them. Amat (Adadiri Tanpalang), a ten-year-old boy is an intelligent and mature boy who helps his mute father with stone carving. One day, his teacher requests him to participate in a stone carving competition. He never finishes it; instead his father does it for him. He wins but he returns the prize to the school because he felt that he doesn’t ...
Chased by Satan
Character:
Three teen couples are making an amateur horror movie titled "Dikejar Setan", for an indie film festival. To capture audience attention, they want a real ghost in the scenes. So they hire a ghost whisperer in the film production. Slowly, reality and hallucination haunt them, blurring the boundaries between the past, and present. Then they are all implicated in a crime event that took place some time ago, that had many victims. The terror of "death" is now after them....
Death Knot
Character:
Hari, a young psychologist and his sister Eka, goes back to their village for the funeral of their estranged mother who committed suicide by hanging. There they are confronted with the superstitious beliefs of the locals which is behind their mother’s death....
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Character: Rona Merah
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?...
Pesan di Balik Awan
Character: Nenek
Breaking up with her boyfriend on her anniversary, Kirana challenges fate to find her a partner by flying a message in a balloon....
The Women Crowned with Crescent Moon
Character: Mama Clara
When Bete Kaebauk, who lives in Atambua, NTT, started getting her period, she was “introduced” by her own father, Fritz Manek, that she was ready for a marriage proposal. Emilio was the first man Bete fell in love with. They both like it. But Emilio wanted to be a priest. Alfredo's presence for a moment made him happy. Despite having different social classes and Alfredo being unable to pay the dowry for his marriage, Bete decides to elope with Alfredo. Bete's life is not as beautiful as he imagi...
Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra
Character: Rahayu
Set in 1960s Java, A female Javanese Traditional Kamasutra Guru involves in a plot of revenge for her ex-lover who left her behind in the past by seducing her ex lover's son during his pre-wedding sexual study period....
Suri
Character: Suri
Suri (a representation of Mahsuri and ‘penunggu’) submits her whole being to an old yet charming kampong house and vows to remain devoted for better or worse. Every once a month, Suri performs a ritual that she believes will strengthen the bond between her and the house. In return, the house blesses her with beauty and grace. As she ages, Suri loses her sense of identity and starts to give in to temptations. The story then follows how Suri battles between facing her personal desires and tending...
Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
Character: Lian
Sammi has the ability to remove parts of his body and give them to those he loves and wants to help. After his death, Sammi’s mother goes in search of the pieces of her son....
Sumur Jiwo 1977
Character: Laksmi
Ardi, Ferry, and Rara, struggling filmmakers, are given one week by their boss Fabian to create a hit concept. Desperate, they visit a shaman, Mbah Upit, who gives them a magical book with spells and clues to a 1977 murder in Sumur Jiwo Village. Trapped in the past and haunted by Pocong and Kuntilanak, they struggle to find a way back to 2025....
Trinity of Tales
Character:
From drama, comedy, to horror, every genre has become a space for expressions of love for film, fashion and photography artists. Three short films in three different genres that show the character and characteristics of their respective aesthetic views, are a form of respect for various styles of storytelling from different perspectives....