Film Screening Reviews

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kimi to Boku literally means ‘you and me’. I believe that the title of this film actually represents Dr. Huyung’s hope, deep down in his heart. The words ‘you and me’ can be used both in the [...]

At the end of this curatorial program, Riar Rizaldi stated that watching films can be one of the most subversive action to resist contemporary regime of capitalism. By retreating into a black box [...]

This 88 minutes film has successfully narrated and raised the complexity existed in Africa. For me, Jean-Marie Teno has succeeded in presenting how the physical and intellectual colonialization [...]

One of the works of the pioneering director in establishing the identity of the Indonesian national film that I will watch on the first day was entitled "Anak Perawan di Sarang Penyamun" (Virgin [...]