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Joko Anwar

Joko Anwar

Indonesian film director

Sep 11, 2026

44:41
So tell us about that.
44:44
I grew up watching films in this rundown cinema near my house.
44:48
Well, it's not actually near.
44:49
I had to walk 45 minutes as a child crossing so many streets, busy streets, Indonesian streets, you know.
44:57
I frequented...
45:00
This cinema since I was five, six years old.
45:04
And most movies played in that cinema were rapi films movies.

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57:47
You know, it's like all the compartments, all the
26:19
Yeah.
26:19
"I want to be a filmmaker.
26:20
I want to meet, um, you know, filmmakers so I can, you know, sell my scripts." And they said, "No, because if you want to cover, uh, films and film people, you have to, uh, write as, um, a feature desk, uh, reporter." And I had to wait, they said, two years until I can get into the feature desk.
26:43
I said, "No, this is too long." So I end up watching film and made, I made reviews.
26:47
I remember the first movie that I reviewed was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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HareshHOST
51:44
Yeah.
51:45
And each one of these ethnic groups, they come up with their own...
51:47
You know, they create stories, right? Whether they, they, they, they, they like telling stories or they have to pass down information from the previous generation to the next generation, uh, including, uh, facts, but very close to fiction, and then they make fictions.

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