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29/12/2022·

Newsletter ·

Report on Festival Film Dokumenter 2022

Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) is one of the Forum Film Dokumenter programs that focuses on being actively involved in the documentary ecosystem by holding film exhibitions and inclusive discussion forums. After the previous two years being held online, this year’s…

19/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

Festival Film Dokumenter 2022 Award Winners

Yogyakarta, 19 November 2022 – Festival Film Dokumenter 2022 has officially ended. After being held for six days in a row since 14 November 2022, tonight the award winners of the competition program were announced. Here are the awarded films…

19/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

A Story about A Good Story: Interview with International Feature-Length Competition Juries FFD 2022

Makiko Wakai, Phillip Cheah, and Pierre-Emmanuel Barthe are the three juries for International Feature-Length Documentary Festival Film Dokumenter 2022. After such a long discussion to decide the best International Feature-Length Documentary Competition and the one which awarded Jury’s Special Mention,…

19/11/2022·

Interview ·

Important and Intimate: Interview with Short Documentary Competition Juries FFD 2022

How do the experience and professional background of the judges play a part in the process of selecting films in the Short Documentary competition? Puiyee Leong: My background is more on film programming. After watching the 8 films, I appreciate…

19/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

DOCTALK: Observing the Working Scope of Film Programmers

The 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 very broad topic, DOCTALK forum managed to summarize the important…

17/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

DOC Forum: Discussing Festival and City Sustainability

Yogyakarta, 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 Hotel, brought up the topic of the sustainability of a…

17/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

DOC Forum: Seeing the Work Behind Film Festival

Yogyakarta, 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 Festival. This discussion brought up the topic of the work…

16/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

Getting to Know Documentary Ecosystem at the First Meeting of DOC FORUM

Yogyakarta, 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 13 documentary film communities from several regions in Indonesia. At…

16/11/2022·

Program Highlight ·

Impact Distribution Seen through In-Docs Lenses: A Report on DOCTALK Program in Festival Film Dokumenter 2022

Yogyakarta, 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 a casual yet intimate conversation, Yuda and Tata, the representative…

15/11/2022·

Newsletter ·

Celebrating the Resurrection of Permata Cinema Building with Festival Film Dokumenter 2022

Yogyakarta, 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 FFD event was held offline; after the previous two years,…

14/11/2022·

Film Review ·

A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021): Seeing India’s Turmoil from a Pile of Letters

Have 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 complete, but that’s what we need. This feature-length documentary departs…

14/11/2022·

Film Review ·

Wek Wek (2022): Life Lessons from Sukirman Duck Troops

More 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 got domestic duck way before he was born. In order…