Festival Program

Forty people who attended this program almost fill the entire seats of Kineforum. The audience laughter can be heard several times in the scenes where humor was encountered. In the discussion [...]

The story of Nepal as well as the struggle of this developing country and the challenge is disclosed in Asian Young Curator program titled Voices: Alternative Nepali Cinema. The program is [...]

Then, satisfaction was the reaction I got from watching World Cup. This film was nothing but slow, 108 minutes felt like a 30-minute film, thanks to its playful narration. Some shots were [...]

On August 21st, ARKIPEL social/kapital – 4th Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival was held at Kineforum, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta. At 11 am, the first program was [...]

Probably, not only intertitle that can be a part of the visual language of the film. Even the sequence of image performance, footage placement and the narration of the film itself can be a [...]

The films screened this time were the representation of Taiwanese community’s struggle due to the oppression of global neoliberals. Many symbols were invested in the films as the representation [...]

Propaganda films will be successful if it can fulfill the aesthetic conditions of good films. Propaganda films often display a black and white truth. That kind of imagination must be showed to [...]

Umi Lestari brought a very relevant discourse in Europe; migration. She used a symbol that was ‘Flow’ of which was often identified as a domination that dragged us into. In a river, there were [...]

A very interesting scene for me was side symbol that became the center of his film since its middle part to ending scene. Precisely as Bunga Siagian wrote on the catalogue, boots symbolized bad [...]

Hitherto, the development of cinema is never far from those who contribute to develop cinema knowledge itself. Among those contributors are communities. Even though these communities are not [...]