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“Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly” (2008) was the Indonesian filmmaker Edwin's first feature film which was very well received and earned him several awards including the Netpac Award at the Taipei Horse Film Festival; the Silver Montgolfiere at the Nantes Three Continents Festival and the Fipresci Prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. For his “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash” (2021) he won Best Director at the Indonesian 42nd Citra Awards and the Golden Leopard at the Switzerland Locarno Film Festival.

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“Borderless Fog”, original title “Kabut Berduri”, is Edwin's latest crime thriller streaming on Netflix. The intense story takes place at the Indonesia-Malaysia border, in the thick and steaming rainforest of Borneo Island where the Dayaks, Malay and Chinese live. Back in the late 60s to the late 90s, both the Malaysian and Indonesian military worked side...

Above: Edwin. Photo ©Erieknjuragan.Opening on two motorcyclists playing a reckless game of chicken for petty cash in an unfashionable outskirt of Bandung in 1989, Indonesian writer-director Edwin’s sixth feature, the Golden Leopard-winning Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, is intent on challenging any and all expectations its punchy title might evoke from the very start. As the winner of the contest, rat-tailed protagonist Ajo Kawir (Marthino Lio), sets off on a victory lap, he passes a painted advertising board, which promptly comes alive and offers the audience a glimpse beneath the veneer of Ajo’s masculine swagger: “Only a man who can’t get it up can face death without fear.” Our hero, for all his readiness to take on multiple people in any kind of fight, is impotent. But this perceived sexual inadequacy is not the fatal flaw that will come to haunt Ajo on his hero’s journey.