The 2017 Tempo Film Festival showed that Indonesian movies have returned to the bread and butter of cinematography: strong storylines. The six movies nominated use stories to support the pictures, rather than beautiful landscapes or lightweight plots that make no sense.

Even if Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak (Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts) had been set in Bogor or Semarang, rather than on the exotic island of Sumba, the tale of the re