Meiske Taurisia

Well-known for his avant-garde shorts, experimental filmmaker Edwin expands his scope with this eccentric debut: a darkly comic chronicle of a Chinese-Indonesian woman adrift in her own country. An outlandish mosaic of oft-kilter vignettes and riotous gags, guided by an earnest yearning to belong.

There’s a breezy vibe to Anggun Priambodo’s Rocket Rain, despite the heavy subject matters under discussion by the central duo. The pain of divorce and responsibilities of adulthood come under investigation, but Priambodo finds room for colorful, fantastic asides—including some dancing genitalia!