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It Is Not So Much That the Artifacts Are Mute, as That We Are Deaf
Huaqueo is a practice of gravedigging to obtain pre-Columbian artifacts. The people who practice are…
Directing Film, Directing Life
I am 25, a woman still navigating my own “film”: messy, uncertain, full of detours,…
Cleanliness is Part of Faith, They Say
“Cleanliness is part of faith.” That dogmatic proverb has long been internalised into the bodies…
The Sound from Migrant Workers in the Park
A couple sits across from each other in a park. They share questions and stories…
Tracing Memory through the Things in a Room
A while ago, I found myself in my rented room, repacking my belongings and preparing…
To the Inevitable Death, I Love You
The tight grip of two elderly couples reading a book loosens as they turn the…
Highlight
A Black-and-White Film about the Colorful Life of Individual Distortion
The screening of A DISTORTED INDIVIDUAL. (Adythia Utama, 2025) was held for the first time…
Challenging a Single Historical Narrative through Archives and Art
On a bright afternoon, Cemeti–Institute for Art and Society–grew ever more alive with visitors. On…
Photography, Cinema, and the Liminal Space Between Them
DOC Talk’s session, “Foto: Ruang-Waktu Sinema” (lit. Photo: Cinema Space-Time), held at Langgeng Art Foundation…
The Grand Transversal Process of La Casa Grande
On 24 November 2025, the screening of Short Competition was held at Kedai Kebun Forum,…
Festival Strategy, Curatorial Work, and Their Interplay
The Curatorship & Context: Strategy of Festival & Networking panel session was held at Pascasarjana…
Teka-teki Sinema Film Programming Workshop 2025 Has Been Conducted
The first edition of Teka-teki Sinema film programming workshop has officially wrapped up. The workshop…
Index
Assessing Perspective, Form, and Impact: Jury Notes on International Feature-Length Competition FFD 2025
Read articleBrings 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…
Locating the Self, Questioning the Hero: Jury Notes on Indonesia Feature-Length Competition FFD 2025
Read articleThe 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,…
Precision in Brevity: Jury Notes on Short Competition FFD 2025
Read articleThe 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…
Reading Reality, Cultivating Sensitivity: Jury Notes on Student Competition FFD 2025
Read articleThe 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…
Films, People, and City Narratives in Film Festivals
Read articleNo 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…
Festival Strategy, Curatorial Work, and Their Interplay
Read articleThe 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,…
A Ceremony of Commemoration, Q&A Session with Ricky Yang
Read articleOn 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…
Stories from Ulsan Featured in Docs Docs: Short!
Read articleWhat 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…
Documentary Performance as a Way of Seeing and Experiencing
Read articleThe 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…
The Grand Transversal Process of La Casa Grande
Read articleOn 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…
Reframing the Subject in Short Documentary
Read articleThe 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…
Doc Performance: Between Body, Art, and Reality
Read articleIn 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…
The Creative and Political Process Behind The Last Accord: War, Apocalypse, and Peace (2025)
Read article“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…
Who Is Bachtiar and Where Does He Stand in the History of Indonesian Cinema?
Read articleOn November 23, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., the auditorium of Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta was filled with an audience who came not only to watch a film, but also to revisit…
Photography, Cinema, and the Liminal Space Between Them
Read articleDOC Talk’s session, “Foto: Ruang-Waktu Sinema” (lit. Photo: Cinema Space-Time), held at Langgeng Art Foundation (23/11), opened a discussion on the shifting boundaries between photography and cinema. Rather than look…
