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 forms and cinematic approaches, reflecting the diversity of contemporary documentary practice. Selected films will become part of the Festival’s program and be presented to audiences…
The 24th edition of Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) took place live from November 21–28, 2025. This year, the festival was held at several venues: Langgeng Art Foundation, Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta, Kedai Kebun Forum, Cemeti—Institute for Art and Society, and Institut Français d’Indonésie (IFI) Yogyakarta. During the festival, FFD launched two exciting new programs: DOC Performance…
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 experimental work. The lineup includes entries from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, each film offering a distinct vantage point on current documentary practice and…
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, sociopolitical reflection, and satire, showing how local documentary has expanded in both subject matter and formal attitude. Each title brings its own point of entry…
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 experience, historical trauma, political reflection, experimentation in sound-image, and abstraction. The category demonstrates how short documentaries today are not defined by its length, but by…
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 Maulana Vitjayanto, 2025), Constructed (Jonathan Gradiyan, 2025), Our Father Hour (Aziz Hammad Kusteja, 2025), Forced to Be Wild (Muhammad Al Hafiz, 2025), When the Blues…
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 Pascasarjana ISI Yogyakarta on November 27. Led by Thomas Barker, this panel featured two important figures in the Asian documentary festival network: Jinna Lee from…
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 held at Cemeti-Institute for Art and Society. At this talk, Suvi invited us to join him on the “pilgrimage” he’s been on for the past…
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, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. This class presented Ondřej Kamenický, Program Director of One World International Film Festival, and…
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 documentary tells the story of a violinist who returned to Hong Kong in 2020 when pandemic restrictions began to ease. Then, an unexpected event occurred:…
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 Docs: Short! brings together four documentaries by directors from Ulsan, South Korea, who are part of the UMFFmentary program, to the audience of FFD 2025.…
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 the intersection of documentary and performance. This class is a part of Festival Film Dokumenter’s effort to bridge the gap between the screen, the…
