International Feature-Length Competition
Film
Jury
Farah Wardani
Farah Wardani is an independent art curator, consultant, and producer of cultural programs that has been active since 2002. Farah is a board member of the Indonesian Visual Art Archive Foundation. Among her current engagements, she is currently serving as Expert Committee of SAKA Museum, Bali, member of Acquisition Committee of National Gallery Singapore (2024–2027), curator of Ellipse Art Projects +E Program for Biennale de Lyon (2024–2026), Program Chair of Museum Forward by EUNIC Indonesia (2024–2025), and lead curator of ARTJOG (2026–2028).
Krishna Sen
Krishna Sen FAHA is an Australian professor and internationally recognized scholar in contemporary Indonesian and media studies. Her first book was a comprehensive account of Indonesian film history. She is Chair of the Perth Centre of PEN International, Emerita at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the Murdoch University Senate. Indian by birth and Australian by circumstance, she has dedicated much of her academic career to researching and writing about the connections between media and politics in Indonesia. Her long-standing interest in media censorship, developed through her work on Indonesia under Soeharto, now informs her role with PEN International, particularly in supporting imprisoned writers worldwide.
Ondřej Kamenický
Ondřej Kamenický is the director of One World International Human Rights Film Festival. The festival is held in Prague and 56 other cities and towns in the Czech Republic, showcases documentaries and fiction films on human rights, social, political, environmental, and media issues. It includes Q&As, panel debates, virtual reality events, social impact projects, screenings for schools, and East Doc Platform for film industry. One World distributes films, assists to new festivals, and organizes several festival echoes around the world.
Selection Committee
Patrick F. Campos
Patrick F. Campos is a film scholar, curator-programmer, and professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. He is the author of The End of National Cinema and Scenes Reclaimed, chief editor of Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image, and the programmer of Tingin Film Festival in Manila. His recent curated programs include Inland Island (Asian Film Archive), Worlds We Are (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design), and I Did It My Way (ArtsEquator).
Swann Dubus
Swann Dubus is a French, Vietnam based, documentary director-producer with over 20 years experience across Europe, Africa, and Asia. After a Master of Literature, Swann completed a PhD about intimacy in cinema at Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle University in 2006. A year later, he moved to Hanoi to join the Varan Vietnam team, a production company founded with the sole purpose of developing and spearheading creative documentary projects in Vietnam.
Varadila Nurdin
Varadila Nurdin is a curator, film programmer, and specialist in documentary project development. She is an ex-program director for Docs by the Sea, worked with In-Docs, Jakarta International Film Festival, Minikino, and Erasmus Huis. She has served as a member of the selection committee, panel speaker, moderator, pitch trainer, and juror for international and regional film festivals including Sheffield DocFest, Open City Documentary Festival, Nordisk Panorama Forum, Festival Film Dokumenter, and Luang Prabang Film Festival.
