Anatman Pictures Original
Films
Documentary films on environmental, social and cultural issues, made independently and released free wherever we can.
Pilot Ondel-Ondel
To escape his school bullies, a boy who hates his father's Betawi craft of making ondel-ondel hides inside the puppet's belly, only to find that the embarrassing bamboo monster is the one armour that can make him a hero when danger strikes.
Jakarta Culture Cinema Fund2026
A Tale of the Stolen River
A family from the Balik Indigenous community in East Kalimantan shares a strong bond with the water and land. However, this sacred connection is being disrupted by the development of Indonesia's new capital city.
Official SelectionJakarta Film Week2026
Hapus
On probation at a production house, an employee is told to edit a video explaining history, until that history comes for her.
Official SelectionFestival Film Horor2026Jakarta World Cinema2026
Terpejam untuk Melihat
Closing Eyes to See
A political and ecological meditation. Everything in the universe is interconnected, and every everyday choice we make turns out to be political.
Piala Citra NomineeFestival Film IndonesiaBest Feature Documentary · 2024
Mother of the Sea
Siti Darwati is a fisherwoman in Demak. She risks her life at sea to make a living, and still has to fight to be recognised as a fisher at all.
Official SelectionFestival Film DokumenterYogyakarta · 2023Official Selection19th IAWRT Asian Women's Film FestivalNew Delhi · 2024
Rumah Makang
A Mongondow family restaurant in Java, a mother ready to hand it on, and a daughter who has earned it, until custom and patriarchy collide.
Atas Nama Daun
In the Name of the Leaf
Five points of view on cannabis in Indonesia, medical, legal, religious, cultural and personal, opening a space for discussion rather than a verdict.
Piala Citra NomineeFestival Film IndonesiaBest Feature Documentary · 2022NomineePiala MayaDocumentary · 2023
Datang Bulan
Come Moon
A teenage girl in a Bogor village and the taboo around her first periods, told alongside the water and sanitation her family lives with.
Official SelectionJogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival2022
Love Birth Life
Freya Light, a single mother in rural Victoria, gives birth at home without a partner beside her. A film about trust in the body and in the here and now.
Piala Citra NomineeFestival Film IndonesiaBest Short Documentary · 2021WinnerNew York International Film AwardsNYIFA
Diam & Dengarkan
Be Quiet & Listen
A documentary essay born in the stillness of the Covid-19 pandemic, released free under Creative Commons and watched more than six million times.
Official SelectionFestival Film IndonesiaDocumentary · 2020