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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
Celebrating the Resurrection of Permata Cinema Building with Festival Film Dokumenter 2022
Read articleYogyakarta, 14 November 2022 – The 2022 Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) was officially opened to the public on 14 November 2022 at the former Permata Cinema Building, Yogyakarta. This year’s…
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021): Seeing India’s Turmoil from a Pile of Letters
Read articleHave you ever imagined how a letter works? Not only to archive messages and feelings but also as a medium to record things from the past coherently? It is not…
Wek Wek (2022): Life Lessons from Sukirman Duck Troops
Read articleMore than 300 troops of ducks go out of their basecamp and rush into the rice paddies. They are under the command of Sukirman, a man, born in 1966, who…
Spinning Yarn (2022): Spinning Homeworkers’ Dream
Read articleWhen you see the fabric around you, do you ever think of any actors who contributed in the process of making it? If your answer is yes, then this documentary…
Transparent, I am. (2020): Seeing the World Through Yuri Muraoka’s Eyes
Read articleThrough Transparent, I am (Yuri Muraoka, 2020) the filmmaker presents herself as the subject of the film. The use of this first-person point of view becomes a central theme that…
The Partian (2021): Excavators, Quarry Sand, and Trucks Transporting Excavated Products: Portrait of “Planet Bogor”
Read article“Meet the Partian …” That’s the opening narrative of this 8 minutes and 40 seconds documentary. Partian is another name for Martian, a hypothetical term referring to human beings/colonies on…
Fantasmagoría (2022): The Story Inherent in Old Iron
Read articleCaliche is one of the explosives that can be found in Atacama, Chile. The caliche mining in Fantasmagoría was the main caliche mine in the year when the first world…
(((O))) (2022): The Sensation of Watching a Movie with Your Eyes Closed
Read articleAs an audio-visual work, a film will always come with these two combinations. So far, the discourse on film seems to only see how visuals are the only backbone that…
Striking Land (2022): Half-Alive in Life Imprisonment
Read articleNo conversations and no background music; no location descriptions and no small talk. The only clue that can guide us before we dive deeper in Striking Land is the narrative…
1970 (2021): Oppression from the Eyes of the Oppressor
Read articleFood is one of the basic necessities of humans and it is the important one among all basic needs–food, shelter, and clothing. If it is not fulfilled, it affects the…
Teguh (2021): Between Passion and Impression; The Struggle for a Freedom to Love
Read articleLiving free to love anyone is a human right of every human being. Unfortunately, the need that should be a human right turns out to be a privilege. Regarding sexual…
Marganing Gesang (2022): Attempt to Survive
Read articlePeople commonly associate dalang (puppeteer) to an old man. However, in Marganing Gesang (2022), we follow the life of a dalang which is unlike what people think. This documentary film,…
Darsan’s Testimony (2022): His Testimony of People Who Had to End up in Lubang Buaya
Read articleDarsan (80) was still on his first assignment at Maospati Iswahjudi Airfield (now called Iswahjudi Air Force Base) when the ‘65 incident occurred. By order of the Battalion, he had…
A Tale of The Crocodile’s Twin (2022): Hearing Fairy Tales and Testimony of Sharing Living Space
Read articleHave we ever realized that it is not only humans who have the right to living space? This reflection triggers the narrative brought in the film A Tale of The…
Riding A Time Machine: A Conversation With Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
Read articleTimoteus Anggawan Kusno (Angga) finally managed to arrive at the Secretariat of the Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) after struggling with the heavy rain along the way. Wrapped in a parachute…
