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Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) invites documentary filmmakers from Indonesia and around the world to submit their films for the 2026 edition of the Festival. FFD welcomes documentary works of various…

Brings together films from a wide spectrum of territories and approaches, this year’s International Feature-Length Competition at Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2025 ranging from deeply rooted cultural narratives to formally…

The Indonesia Feature-Length Competition Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2025 presents four films that reflect different positions within contemporary Indonesian documentary practice. The lineup includes works that explore historical memory, self-portraiture,…

The twelve films from different countries and artistic approaches are presented in the Short Competition Festival Film Dokumenter 2025. The works explore a wide spectrum of intentions: memory and lived…

The Student Competition program at Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2025 presents six selected films depicting the diverse perspectives of student filmmakers in Indonesia. The six films are DJUM (Ahmad Brilian…

No film festival runs in a vacuum. Such was the atmosphere from the very first minute of the panel discussion Curatorship & Context: Film, Audience, and City Narrative held at…

On Wednesday afternoon (26/11) the weather was slightly cloudy and overcast. It was as if the sky itself was lending an ear to Suvi Wahyudianto’s story during an Artist Talk…

The Curatorship & Context: Strategy of Festival & Networking panel session was held at Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta on November 26 as part of panel sessions for Festival Film Dokumenter 2025,…

On Tuesday evening (25/11), at Kedai Kebun Forum, A Land With No Ceremony (Bichun Yang, 2024) was screened as part of International Full-Length Competition program at FFD 2025. This 94-minute…

What would happen if four short films from and about the same city are put together in a single screening program? Like postcards sent by a friend far away, Docs…

The second series of panel classes titled Doc Performance: Dokumenter Silang Media (Cross-Media Documentary) took place at Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta on November 25 as a continuation of the ongoing discussion…

On 24 November 2025, the screening of Short Competition was held at Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta. This year, the Short Competition featured twelve films ranges from various countries and took…

The film compilation under Lanskap: Mo(nu)ment program brought together three documentary shorts that explore the presence of individuals as windows to a wider social landscape. The three films namely NH…

In a forum titled Doc Performance: Dokumenter Silang Media (Cross-Media Documentary) on November 24 held at Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta, Hafiz Rancajale and Agung Kurniawan attended as speakers to talk about…

“History, especially Indonesian history, has many versions! A new history is being made as we speak,” said Arfan Sabran, director of The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace (2025), featured…