The Siege at Thorn High

The Siege at Thorn High (2025) is an Indonesian action thriller by Joko Anwar you can watch online on iFILM. On her deathbed, Edwin's sister asks him to track down the son she gave up years ago.

The search leads him to a Jakarta school for juvenile delinquents, where he signs on as a substitute teacher and walks into classrooms ruled by violence and racial hatred. Just as Edwin finds the boy, a city-wide riot breaks out and traps him inside with students hungry for his blood. Morgan Oey plays him somewhere between dread and fury.

One of Indonesia's sharpest genre directors, Joko Anwar stages the whole thing as a claustrophobic siege — stairwells, jammed doors, no way out, closer to The Raid than to a classroom drama. Brutal, tight and relentless. Stream The Siege at Thorn High (2025) online on iFILM.