A film about making a film made BY the students actually in it. Meta much?
In the final year of high school, a group of students embarks on creating a short film for a competition. Despite facing numerous obstacles and challenges that test their teamwork and unity, the group learns valuable lessons in persistence and collaboration. As tensions rise and doubts creep in, one member reminds them that struggles are part of the journey. Together, they push forward, determined to finish what they started. This film, made as a keepsake for their graduation, captures not only the struggles they faced but the triumph of overcoming them.
Production
Actual students playing themselves making this very film. Recursive madness.
Writing
The line about struggles being part of the journey hits different knowing it's real.
Director
Abimanyu Khatman Zakaria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Every cast member uses their real name and actual role in production. The DOP plays the DOP. The director plays the director. It's practically a documentary wearing drama's clothes.
Indonesian student films about filmmaking are having a moment — this joins a growing trend of Gen Z creators documenting their own creative anxieties in real-time.
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