Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of Soeharto and Soekarno.
Mel has a successful life. It all changes when her fiancé, Joe, is involved with another woman. She changes drastically and had all her friends worried. They decide to introduce Mel to Are, a book store owner and brownies baker. When Mel and Are fall in love, Joe reappears and tries to reclaim his love for Mel.
Three men who have been friends since childhood: Marwan, Donny and Lenny make a living by working as an assassin. Increasingly undertaken, they are increasingly aware that the job does not promise a better future. Suddenly there was an event that made them feel sick because of their life choices for it. All three knew she'd made a mistake in his life and trying to repent and make amends.
The story is about a journey to find a true love by four guys, Agus, Doni, Olip and Bimo, who lived and study in Bandung. It’s about love, commitment of love and asking what the responsibility of love is. All wrap in drama comedy genre, but not like slapstick comedy.
Mengejar Matahari is a coming of age tale of four childhood friends in a Jakarta ghetto whose bonds are tested as they grow into adulthood. They share a nightly ritual, "chasing the sun" (mengejar matahari), where they race through the ghetto, symbolically chasing their future. Their friendship becomes strained when Ardi and Damar fall in love with Apin's niece, Rara, just as a neighborhood bully is released from jail and seeks revenge. The film is both about the strength of friendship and a metaphor for the durability of the Indonesian archipelago.
Siti Zahrana’s academical success makes her parents worried. Zahrana hasn’t married by her early thirties. There have been many men who solicited her, but she has refused them all politely. Zahrana’s conflicting issues spring up: to follow her parents’ wish or to pursue her own dreams. Actually she has relented once. She turns down a teaching post at Gadjah Mada University. The reason, her parents who live in Semarang don’t want her to be away. So Zahrana teaches at a Semarang university and stays with them. Then she also passes up a doctoral scholarship opportunity from China.
With background experience for entrepreneurship in Egypt, Azzam was not discouraged even to start business on its own. But how to get married, it is always alluded to by his mother. Women who his admired, Anna Althafunnisa has been proposed by his best friend. Whereas with Eliana whom he not love, it create much confusion. Azzam also trying to find his moorings, although quite a lot of the barriers that they face, which then makes it almost hopeless.
Wahyu (16 years old) has an extraordinary skill of football. He lives in Langitan village at the slope of Mount Bromo with his father, a warm drink vendor for the tourists around the volcanic site, and mother. In order to make his parents happy, Wahyu uses his football skill to become a freelance player, playing football for one village team after another with the help of his uncle, Hasan. Pak Darto, Wahyu’s father, really despises what Wahyu does.
Lando is frustrated and depressed because his fiance left him. Kalin has to move to jakarta after her parents died and works as a busway ticket officer. One day, Lando accidentally takes a photograph of Kalin's face.
Dibyo (Ringgo Agus Rahman), is a big liar who felt as if he was a big actor even though he only got one insignificant part. Dibyo seduces Mira (Mulan Kwok) who bought his lie, and took her to bed. Mira seems to really fall in love with him even though she knows who Dibyo really is and pregnant with his child. The problem is, Mira is also lying. She actually has a husband named Lamhot Simamora (Eddie Karsito), although they are separated. Mira wants Dibyo to end her relationship with her husband. It turns out that Lamhot is a gangster with many followers. Because Dibyo accidentally saves Lamhot from a fight with another gangster group, Lamhot then claims Dibyo as his best friend, moreover after he lies that his name is John Sidabutar. Because of that, Lam-hot takes him to his home and guarantee his life.
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