Piring Tirbing

Formed between factual and fictional, future and past, material and incorporeal, scientific and magic, Monisme reflects the intermingled relationships between people in Mount Merapi.

A crossdresser has to disguise themselves to be able to attend a Qur’an recitation. Unforeseen circumstances lead their identity to be revealed, and they are shunned from their community. Now, they can only question their fate.

Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?

A mother invites her son to visit her husband who has been sick for a long time. This is the first time for the son because, in fact, he does not want to see his father again. But the mother still loves her husband, and this angers the son.

The movie narrates the story of an organ ranger in Tulang Bawang, Lampung named Mirwan. From Mirwan’s daily activities, we can see how the music dynamic and organ group life with all the challenges faced by Mirwan, being a well- known Ranger in his region.