25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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U.S. Premiere

Sleep No More

Monster Pabrik Rambut

Five years after Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash took the Golden Leopard at Locarno, Edwin returns with a body-horror nightmare about labor, exhaustion, and the things that come crawling in when you stop sleeping. At a wig factory, owner Maryati pushes her workers past collapse, dangling bonuses to keep them awake and producing. Putri (Rachel Amanda) thinks the regime drove their mother to suicide. Her sister Ida (Lutesha) is certain something possessed her instead, a dark figure that hollows out bodies the moment fatigue leaves them defenseless, so Ida takes the night shifts to bait it. Meanwhile, their younger brother Bona heals from any wound, somehow, and this power draws a hunger all its own, in the form of a ghostly figure shopping for the perfect body.. Scripted with novelist Eka Kurniawan, sick, funny, and genuinely strange.

Director: Edwin
Cast: Rachel Amanda, Lutesha
Languages: Indonesian with English Subtitles
2026; 96 min.
Country: Indonesia

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 25, 9:15pm
SVA Theatre