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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…
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…
Index
Daily Guideline: Tuesday – December 11th, 2018
Read article1.00 p.m. “LANSKAP” PROGRAM | Q & A | SOCIETET MILITAIR, TBY “Lanskap” offered an effort to view and talk about Indonesia through the discourse that regularly present within the…
Interview with Alexander Matius
Read articleAlexander Matius, programmer on Kinosaurus Jakarta, an alternative screening program, and one of the drive on Cinemapoetica , saw competition as an important entity and needed to be present at…
Programmer Recommendation: Aditya R. Pratama
Read articleAditya is programmer of Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) since 2016. This year, he is a programmer for three programs: “Spektrum”, The Feelings of Reality “, and” Le Mois du Documentaire…
FFD 2018 Launches Special Programs Regarding Disability Issues
Read articleIt is hard to deny that people with disabilities are often placed as “second-class citizens” in this country. Almost all aspects are not friendly to people with disabilities. This is…
“Human, Frame by Frame”, FFD 2018’s program for Human Rights Day
Read articleSimultaneous with World Human Rights Day on December 10th, Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2018 presented a thematic program titled “Human, Frame by Frame”. This program will screen nine films from…
Daily Guideline: Monday – December 10th, 2018
Read article1.00 p.m. COMPETITION –SILENCE IS A FALLING BODY | SOCIETET – TAMAN BUDAYA YOGYAKARTA One of the films in the program feature-length documentary competition that told the personal side of…
Interview Session with Sebastian Winkels
Read articleOn Friday, December 8th, 2018, FFD’s Media and Publication team had an opportunity to talk with a German director, Sebastian Winkels. This year, FFD is cooperating with Goethe-Intitut in the…
Programmer Recommendation: Irfan R. Darajat
Read articleIrfan R, Darajat is the programmer of FFD 2018 for “Perspektif” and “DocSound” programs. For now, Irfan is a member of LARAS research group: Music Studies in Society, and a…
Daily Guideline: Sunday – December 9th, 2018
Read article12.00 p.m. SOINA (2018) | SOCIETET TBY As one of two non-VR documentaries in Feelings of Reality, SOIna, or Special Olympics Indonesia is an organization to hold an Olympic event for…
Programmer Recomendation: Sazkia Noor Anggraini
Read articleSazkia Noor Anggraini—more familiarly called Anggi—is the Program Director of Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2018. Some of the programs directly curated by her are “Retrospektif” and “Lanskap”. Outside FFD, Anggi…
Daily Guideline: Saturday – December 8th, 2018
Read article1.00 p.m. BEAUTIFUL THINGS (2017) | SOCIETET TBY Capturing noisy reality thus exiling head voices, Giorgio Ferrero through Beautiful Things (2017) proposed his reflection towards human existence amid bustling industrial…
Festival Film Dokumenter 17 | 2018 Officially Held
Read articleFestival Film Dokumenter 2018 (FFD) officially starts on Wednesday, December 5th, 2018. Located at Societet Militair Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, on its 17th year, the annual festival opens with the screening…
Daily Guideline: Friday, December 7th, 2018
Read article10.30 a.m. “SCHOOL OF SEEING” TALKING MONEY (2018) DISCUSSION | LOOP STATION YOGYAKARTA Integrated under the program “School of Seeing” from In-Docs which will screen and discuss about the movie…
Daily Guidelines: Thursday – December 6th, 2018
Read article1.00 p.m. TAIWAN DOC – SHORT PART | SOCIETET TBY This slot invites the audience to return into a glimpse of the long history of Taiwanese society through the medium…
Film Review: Liefde (2017)
Read articleNyai – an indigenous woman “owned” by European gentlemen–often gets a negative stigma, both from fellow native and foreigner. They are considered mistresses, bitches, have no morals, and so on.…
