(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: Indonesia
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2007-12-16
- Director: Upi Avianto , Nia Di Nata , Lasja Fauzia , Fatimah Rony
- Writers: Vivian Idris , Melissa Karim
- Language: Indonesian
- Stars: Fauzi Baadila , Susan Bachtiar , Otto Djauhari , Kirana Larasati , Ade Firza Paloh , Rieke Dyah Pitaloka , Ratna Riantiarno , Rachel Maryam Sayidina , Sarah Sechan , Shanty
- Runtime: 105 min
- Awards: 5 nominations
- AKA: Perempuan perempuan (Indonesia) , Perempuan Punya Cerita , Perempuan punya cerita (Indonesia) , Chants of Lotus
- Plot: This is an omnibus film by women directors: Nia Dinata (Love for Share), Upi Avianto (Radit and Jani), Lasja Fauzia Susatyo (Not an Ordinary Star), and one guest director, Fatimah T. Rony.Story of Island (Fatimah T. Rony)Sumantri (Rieke Diah Pitaloka) is the only midwife in one island nears Jakarta. She married with a man named Rokhim (Arswendi Nasution) and cares a retarded woman named Wulan (Rachel Maryam). One day, she left the island for a medical check-up. She convicted by doctor that she is affected by cancer, makes she must takes operation and rest in Jakarta for months, leaving her life in the island. Revealed that she is still seen bad from an abortion that she doing for saves a life of a woman. Night, Wulan raped and pregnant. And from this point, Sumantri cannot doing anything because money is the real ruler in the island.Story of Yogyakarta (Upi Avianto)Safina (Kirana Larasati) is a High School girl who very close to free sex habit which surrounds her and her friends. Many stories going on, she meets a journalist who wants to write article about free sex on teens named Jay Anwar. He covered his mission by introduces that he is an usually college boy. Safina loves Jay and loses her virginity with him. Finally, Jay going to Jakarta after what he doing to Safina. Makes something should to do by her.Story of Cibinong (Nia Dinata)Esi (Shanty) is a cleaning service in a cheap nightclub named "Merem Melek". She friends with dangdut singers such as Cicih (Sarah Sechan). Esi now lives with her boyfriend, Narto, and her daughter, Maesaroh (Ken Nala Amrytha). After Esi see Narto forced Maesaroh to perform oral sex on him, Esi and Maesaroh escape to Cicih's home with Cicih's husband, Mang Jaja. Then Esi should to takes a fact that Cicih and Maesaroh caught in human trafficking.Story of Jakarta (Lasja Fauzia Susatyo)Laksmi (Susan Bachtiar) and her daughter Belinda (Ranti Maria) get news that Reno (Winky Wiryawan) their husband and father, died because overdose. Laksmi gets HIV/AIDS from him and makes Reno's parents and siblings, chases Laksmi and Belinda. Laksmi, with her little money, finally knows that the way to makes her daughter happy is to not with her.
- IMDB:tt1144059
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Upi Avianto
Director
Nia Di Nata
Director
Lasja Fauzia
Director
Fatimah Rony
Director
Rieke Dyah Pitaloka
Sumantri (Segment: Cerita Pulau)
Rachel Maryam
Wulan (Segment: Cerita Pulau)
Arswendi Nasution
Rokhim (Segment: Cerita Pulau)
Edo Borne
Tommy (Segment: Cerita Pulau)
Ical Tanjung
Bodyguard (Segment: Cerita Pulau)
Kirana Larasati
Safina (Segment: Cerita Yogyakarta)
Fauzi Baadila
Jay Anwar (Segment: Cerita Yogyakarta)
Adhitya Putri
Kukuh Adi Rizky
Dimas (Segment: Cerita Yogyakarta)
Shanty
Esi (Segment: Cerita Cibinong)
Sarah Sechan
Cicih (Segment: Cerita Cibinong)
Ade Firza Paloh
Bang Jaja (Segment: Cerita Cibinong)
Otto Djauhari
Kang Mansur (Segment: Cerita Cibinong)
Sapto Soetardjo
Om 1 (Segment: Cerita Cibinong)
Ranty Maria
Belinda (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Tarzan
Bapak Reno (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Ratna Riantiarno
Ibu Reno (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Winky Wiryawan
Reno (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Henky Solaiman
Sinshe Cen Lung (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Isabelle Patrice
Bude Rara (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Tizza Radia
A'I Lian (Segment: Cerita Jakarta)
Farishad I. Latjuba
Adrianto Sinaga
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