Indonesia’s Reza Rahadian, Yosep Anggi Noen Talk Busan Premiere ‘24 Hours With Gaspar’; Visinema Pictures’ International Approach

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EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian actor Reza Rahadian and director Yosep Anggi Noen are attending Busan International Film Festival with their dystopian crime drama 24 Hours With Gaspar, which is receiving its world premiere in the festival’s Jiseok competition.

An adaptation of Sabda Armandio’s 2017 novel of the same name, the fast-paced thriller is the biggest budget film that Noen, an award-winning arthouse filmmaker, has ever made and marks the first time he’s worked with Rahadian and Laura Basuki, who are both big stars in Indonesia.

Upcoming actress Shenina Cinnamon also stars in the film. Noen says he was approached to direct the project by Angga Dwimas Sasongko, founder of Indonesia’s Visinema Pictures and immediately agreed because he liked the book. “It’s a story about loss, because the main character is coming to terms with losing his friend, but it’s also a visualization of a dystopian Indonesia which we’ve rarely seen,” Noen explains. “Visinema said they wanted to make it more mainstream than my previous films, as well as ensure it had international potential, so we decided to cast big names like Reza and Laura.” Rahadian plays Gaspar, a punky amateur detective in near future Jakarta, investigating a mass slaughter case, who comes across clues to the sudden disappearance of his best friend during childhood.

But thanks to a malfunctioning heart, he’s told he only has 24 hours left to live and therefore wrap up the case. During the investigation, Gaspar pulls in a motley bunch of friends and losers to take on the jewelry store owner whom he suspects is connected to his missing friend.