Greetings from Sumatra

Merantau

2009

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

Smothered

2025

After surviving an accident, Alif, a micro-painting artist, is told by his doctor that his memory hasn’t fully recovered. When a woman claiming to be his mother comes to visit, Alif begins to sense something is wrong—he doesn’t recognize her face, and he suspects she might not be his mother.

MANTAGI

2026

This film follows a spiritual and physical journey from upstream to downstream along the Batanghari River. Through five narrative fragments, viewers are invited to see how water bears silent witness to the lives of the people of Jambi—from a place of purification, a source of life, to a victim of ecosystem destruction.

Pulang Kampung

2026

A Batak musical film that will bring the audience's hearts back to their hometown.

Affair in Sumatra

1956

On a rubber plantation in Sumatra, a woman of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parentage must choose between her people and the doctor she loves.

Nias and Sumatra, Islands of Netherlands India

1936

André de la Varre presents Nias and Sumatra, Islands of Netherlands India.

With Malays in Sumatra

N/A

A travel documentary following writer Sigfrid Siwertz and photographer Gustaf Boge's trip to Sumatra.

Secret Lives of Orangutans

2024

Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough.

The Cousteau Collection N°35-1 | The Sharks

1967