Missing Home

Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap is a heartfelt family drama-comedy that gently explores generational conflicts, cultural expectations, and unspoken love. Set in the beautiful landscape of North Sumatra, the film follows a Batak family navigating emotional distances that are all too familiar in many households.

What makes this film shine is its emotional honesty. The story feels personal and relatable, unfolding slowly with room for laughter and reflection. The humor is organic, arising from real-life situations, not exaggerated gags, while the drama feels genuine and touching.

The performances are grounded and believable. The chemistry between the cast helps sell the film's emotional core. The use of the Batak language enriches the narrative, adding layers of identity and culture that feel authentic rather than decorative. Combined with the lush cinematography, the visuals support the emotional tone beautifully.

Some pacing issues slightly affect the middle portion, but overall, the film maintains a strong emotional flow. It successfully delivers its message about love, expectations, and communication within a family.

In the end, Ngeri-Ngeri Sedap reminds us that beneath our differences and pride, family is where we often find our truest sense of belonging. Warm, humorous, and deeply relatable-this is a film that lingers in the heart long after the credits roll.

After watching this film, I went home with a very satisfied heart because the film really exceeded expectations. A very good family drama film, there are so many lessons to be learned from this film.

Even though the film is about the Batak family, I'm sure the film will relate to almost all families.

Big respect to the director and all the cast. Thank you for this very emotional movie.

There's a lot of hype about this movie in social media so I give it a go once it's on Netflix. I am not a Bataknese but I can understand the jokes and even learn alot about Batak culture. I really enjoy and feel immersed with the culture and watching as the story unfolds around it. The director did a very good job telling the story while showing the beautiful scenery around the characters hometown and the family customs. It surely is a homage to Indonesia's rich nature and culture.

The strong message about parenting, growth, and patriarchal society that inflicts to the damage for both women and men are all well delivered. You might cry at some heated and difficult dialogues, like me.

Not just a family drama, but also shows the gender role and expectation in the household. Nice music, landscape and culture story of Batak :) really good acting! From crying, laughing and angry moment, they got it all perfect.

Taught us about cultural ceremony and value of Batak; family is number 1. Make me feel missing home Now :) and definitely worth of my tears to watch the happy ending.

Congrats the crew! You made it to the academy award! We want more this kind of film being produce and watch by Indonesian families and beyond.

Really like the sense of humor here! Not too much but well accepted.

The movie was made suitably appropriate to represent situation in a typical Bataknese family.. perfectly framed in the 2hours duration.

The conflicts, hard character, melancholic, the moral, responsibility including their complexity are wrapped in a package.

Really wish that the movie could be also released in a streaming platform, so that Bataknese people in overseas can watch it.

I hope that there will continued sequels coming.. 💙