Your unemployed cousin at Eid dinner, but make it cinema.
Arga, unemployed for three years, is a constant source of family ridicule every Eid. Pressured by difficult economy, marriage, his younger sibling's college tuition, and plans to sell his grandmother's house, he struggles to find work to prove himself.
Acting
Ardit Erwandha's cringe-perfect desperation as Arga.
Writing
Eid dinner scenes that cut deeper than the ketupat.
Production
Authentic Jakarta economic anxiety, no poverty tourism.
Director
Naya Anindita
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'sandwich generation' phenomenon hits different in Indonesia, where eldest sons face impossible filial expectations without Western individualist escape hatches.
Director Naya Anindita based Arga's humiliation on real Eid gatherings; cast improvised the dinner roast scenes from actual family trauma.
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