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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,…
Outreach Activities of filmdokumenter.id: Bridging Education and Documentary Films
In the first quarter of 2025, Forum Film Dokumenter Database Program team organized a series…
Festival Strategy, Curatorial Work, and Their Interplay
The Curatorship & Context: Strategy of Festival & Networking panel session was held at Pascasarjana…
Index
DOCTALK: Observing the Working Scope of Film Programmers
Read articleThe third day of DOCTALK, one of the programs in Festival Film Dokumenter 2022 Documentary, brought a discussion topic entitled Documentary Film & Festival Programming in Southeast Asia. Through this…
DOC Forum: Discussing Festival and City Sustainability
Read articleYogyakarta, 16 November 2022 – DOC Forum program, an intensive workshop attended by the film community, was entering its second day. The meeting, which was held at the GAIA Cosmo…
DOC Forum: Seeing the Work Behind Film Festival
Read articleYogyakarta, November 16, 2022 – The second day of the DOC Forum in Festival Film Dokumenter 2022 was opened with a panel discussion session entitled Seeing the Work Behind Film…
Getting to Know Documentary Ecosystem at the First Meeting of DOC FORUM
Read articleYogyakarta, November 15, 2022 – This day was the first day of the DOC Forum 2022 program in Festival Film Dokumenter. DOC Forum is an intensive workshop program attended by…
Impact Distribution Seen through In-Docs Lenses: A Report on DOCTALK Program in Festival Film Dokumenter 2022
Read articleYogyakarta, November 15, 2022 – Sagan 20 was the place to initiate discussions in the DOCTALK program discussing “Alternative Distribution Paths of Documentary Film” held by Festival Film Dokumeneter. In…
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…
