The Poet

Year: 2000

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: Indonesian

Director: Garin Nugroho

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Based on the real story of poet Ibrahim Kadir, who portrays himself, the film follows his arrest and imprisonment in 1960s Aceh amid Indonesia’s anti‑communist purge. Kadir, a survivor of the mass killings that claimed between 500,000 and two million lives, reflects on the silencing of dissent through poetry.

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