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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Impetigore

    Maya had imagined the return to her Javanese birthplace quite differently. Indonesian horror thriller replete with mystery, bloodletting and wayang pu
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  • Masked Monkey – The Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

    Up-close portrait of exuberant, controversial monkey shows in the slums of Jakarta. And if the apes are treated roughly, their trainers hardly get any
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  • Chaotic Memories: Selected Works 2010-2013

    It is the underlying personality of the director, the Indonesian Agusta, that provides the unity for this very diverse collection of experimental, poe
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  • The Science of Fictions

    A fake moon landing, Suharto’s coup, the communist witch hunt and technological progress in a mildly absurdist, fantastical tale.
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  • Kasiterit

    Solar-powered A.I. Natasha informs us of the complex dynamic between labour and geology on Bangka Island, Indonesia, where most tin comes from.
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  • Birdman Tale

    Nugroho is the poet of political cinema: passionate, but with a light and original tone. Here he integrates events in West Papua/Irian Jaya in a…
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  • Exodus

    Two women and a man in a cinematographic dance. Subtle emotions and hidden desires reveal truth and fatal beauty.
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  • On the Origin of Fear

    Deep-seated traumas of Indonesia are rooted out when a man dubs the roles of both perpetrator and victim over a docudrama on the 1965 attempted…
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  • A Woman from Java

    Java, 1927. In a colourful colonial house, a foreign resident’s concubine receives visitors on the birthday of her old and sick Dutch companion.
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  • A Copy of My Mind

    The experienced writer-filmmaker Joko Anwar is still young but certainly knows what you can and cannot show in an Indonesian film. He seems to be…
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