Festival Updates

International Competition 5: Penumbral Zone in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone debuted its screening offline and online on Sunday (12/5). Two films in this programs are Hut (2019) by So Ye-hen and Highways [...]

This curatorial at least invites and reminds us to see not only what is on the screen but also the shadow behind it. This shadow can assume the form of a bitter history, a collective trauma or [...]

ARKIPEL presented a number of film curations, one of which was the Candrawala program, in which four films were showed: Katarsis Yang Tak Kunjung Selesai (2020), Di Pinggir Kali Citarum (2019), [...]

There are two films shown in International Competition 06: Flox (2019) and Anak Merak (2019). Both films explore the position of the camera in the community it exposes.

Diary of Cattle (2019), directed by Lidia Afrilita and David Darmadi, was screened on December 3, 2021 in ARKIPEL Twilight Zone.

Hari Ini Belum Ada Kabar (2021) is a collection of events in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that was recorded from the perspective of people in various regions in Indonesia.

It is said that the daughter of a monarch remained a virgin to old age because of her beauty, a kind of beauty that intimidated men. On the princess's grave, a flower grew between her breasts, [...]

These eight films offer the new possibility of language, perspective, and creativity that can be achieved by this moving image technology called cinema.

In this film, the glass box was imagined as a medium to carry the plants stolen from Asian or African colonies by the colonial invaders, back to their origin countries. Bo Wang and Pan Lu [...]

Widmann curates a screening titled Common Places of Suspension, as part of ARKIPEL’s collaboration with Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival–with the support of Goethe Institut [...]