These days, you can apparently push a Cinderella only so far before she’ll summon dark forces to destroy her entire wicked step-family, one by one. That at least is the basic idea behind “The Book of Sijjin & Illiyyin,” officially a sequel to director Hadrah Daeng Ratu and screenwriter Lele Laila’s “Sijjin” from last year — which, in turn, was based on the 2014 Egyptian hit “Siccin,” which generated seven followups of its own. But “Sijjin & Illiyyin” is a stand-alone original: neither a remake or direct narrative postscript to any of the above-noted films. Its ideas are comfortably familiar though, from the abused underdog who wreaks bitter occult vengeance on her persecutors to the various forms of ickiness deployed in that pursuit.
So it seems one of the less explicable decisions at this year’s Fantasia Festival that Ratu won the jury’s best director prize for a movie that...
So it seems one of the less explicable decisions at this year’s Fantasia Festival that Ratu won the jury’s best director prize for a movie that...
- 8/6/2025
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Barunson E&a, the South Korean studio known for Parasite, is expanding its lineup of titles from Indonesia with upcoming horror The Book Of Sijjin And Illiyyin.
International sales will be launched at the Cannes market on the film directed by Hadrah Daeng Ratu (The Corpse Washer) and is scripted by Lele Laila, writer of Kkn Di Desa Penari, Indonesia’s highest-ever grossing film.
The story follows Yuli, a woman who witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force as a child after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed child, she grew up under the roof...
International sales will be launched at the Cannes market on the film directed by Hadrah Daeng Ratu (The Corpse Washer) and is scripted by Lele Laila, writer of Kkn Di Desa Penari, Indonesia’s highest-ever grossing film.
The story follows Yuli, a woman who witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force as a child after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed child, she grew up under the roof...
- 5/14/2025
- ScreenDaily
Indonesia’s Visual Media Studio is set to shoot religious drama Assalamualaikum Baitullah on location in Mecca.
It will mark only the second Indonesian feature to shoot in the holy city and filming is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2025. Saudi Arabia’s Tafrah Production handles the local shoot, which will account for about 20% of the film.
Directed by Hadrah Daeng Ratu, the story follows a heartbroken woman who is saved from a suicide attempt by a mysterious man and rediscovers hope and strength when they meet again in the holy land.
The cast is led by Tissa Biani...
It will mark only the second Indonesian feature to shoot in the holy city and filming is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2025. Saudi Arabia’s Tafrah Production handles the local shoot, which will account for about 20% of the film.
Directed by Hadrah Daeng Ratu, the story follows a heartbroken woman who is saved from a suicide attempt by a mysterious man and rediscovers hope and strength when they meet again in the holy land.
The cast is led by Tissa Biani...
- 12/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
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