Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2  is the 2017 Indonesian religious drama film released on December 21, 2017, directed by Guntur Soehardjanto, who previously won nine awards at the 2005 Indonesian Film Festival through his work Juli di Bulan Juni. It is a sequel from Ayat-Ayat Cinta . The plot follows Fahri, who has become a professor in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives well but without Aisha, his wife who is missing for months when being a volunteer in the Gaza Strip. While waiting for news of his wife, he faces many problems from romance to distress for being a Muslim in Europe that is hit by Islamophobia. The film received mixed and positive reviews from film critics and has been reached over 1 million tickets sold in five days upon release, and reached over 2.5 million in third weekend upon release. The film is crawling up to the fourth position of Indonesian best-selling films of 2017.. Which movie did Soehardjanto make first, Juli di Bulan Juni or Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2?