International Competition

ince the camera was incorporated as mobile phone feature, I never forget bringing it in my hand or my pocket. Since then, I started to be actively recording. I record anything; the important and [...]

The practice of juxtapositioning images to cultivate imaginations on the outlook of a certain territory or location claimed by a system of sign — a particular behavior, attribute, or its [...]

In its development, cinema always finds its recourse in depicting reality. And just like cinema, humanism also has its own senses of the times, when its definitions undergo extensions in terms of [...]

The reality behind this film is that Quame Nyantakyi was a patient of a psychiatric ward, who had been homeless and imprisoned for a crime. He then joined a witness protection program called [...]

This year, the juror of ARKIPEL Penal Colony decided there were four award categories, each of which was chosen by the four members of the board of the jury, namely Hafiz Rancajale (Indonesia), [...]

Friday, August 25 2017, I had the chance to watch the International Competition 2 program: The Windmill. Two out of four films screened were made by a director who comes from a country whose [...]

If you decided to see a picture of a young woman, then the picture of an old woman will disappear from your mind, and vice versa. The keyword used in this statement is “deciding.” You have an [...]

Film, as one of the media used for activism, has the role able to liberate and give space for women to seize the discourse about the authority of herself. Film can help to decipher the [...]

The many centuries of living within a state has caused human to be diluted by a tendency known as sedentary bias. This tendency causes us to see that moving from one country to another as [...]

Borrowing the word of Otty Widasari, one of the selectors for ARKIPEL International Competition this year, that the modern world put forward an established and single perspective in interpreting [...]