Festival Program

Manshur Zikri as the curator of this program elaborated that the selection of these four films was expected to reflect a situation and phenomenon which are growing in the society of Indonesia.

I remembered the colonization occurred to the local beliefs, which were forced to follow the six main religions in Indonesia. In fact, recently, there was an action of the Sunda Wiwitan followers [...]

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 [...]

A dark cold room was decorated by two pieces of white fabric hang from above was the first scenery I saw. Those two white fabrics, which recently I recognized as the winding sheet because the [...]

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 [...]

From the five documentary films screened, the audience were presented by a fresh perspective through the reflection of different reality in the lives of German suburbian. After all of the movie [...]

There is no introduction on who is this man, also no explanation on what is he doing, or which sea referred on Two Years at Sea as the film’s title. Is he possibly isolating himself? Once, there [...]

Regarding with “Penal Colony” as the topic, those films which were compiled into this screening session tried to retract the memories about the dark time from the dictatorship of 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 [...]