Film Screening Reviews

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 [...]

Eleven films in Curatorial Program-Siew Wai Kok, entitled Impermanence and Change, became a sweet dessert of ARKIPEL Grand Illusion - 3rd Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film [...]

According to Siagian’s curatorial, this film is screened to the public to open wider discussion and new interpretation on what is LEKRA film through its Violetta aesthetics. For a long time, [...]

This Lav Diaz's experimental documentary film picked up the story of life in Tacloban, Philippines, which was hit by a storm in 2013. Yolanda Typhoon was destroying people's homes and killed many.

Tuesday afternoon, 25 August 2015, was one of the films curated by Saiful Anwar, entitled Imagined Land, with his introduction title, "Power and Small Narratives" as listed in the festival catalog.

Curatorial program, besides becoming a kind of education to the audience of a festival indirectly, a more substantive function is that curatorial program also comes to be a space for dialogue [...]

International Competition Program 1 & 2, Negation, in the ARKIPEL Grand Illusion, is played on Monday, 24 August, in Goethe-Institut Indonesien, Jakarta.

Program in reading the development of contemporary Asian cinema, one of them, is filled by David Teh, a curator and art researcher at the National University of Singapore with the theme of [...]

This movie screening is a part of Special Presentation Program which is divided into two session, specal presentation from Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF) and special presentation from [...]