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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses

    Another side of Indonesia. With ordinary locations around Yogyakarta (and hence not the tourist Borobudur), an original story told in fragments about
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  • On Mother’s Head

    Bali is not Indonesia. And not everybody lives there like a tourist. On Bali you can eat pork. Small farmers each keep a couple of…
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  • Ziarah

    On an uninhabited Indonesian island where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now.
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  • A Punk Daydream

    Punks in Jakarta live on society’s margins, fighting for their identity like the indigenous people.
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  • Memories of My Body

    Modern politics, traditional Indonesian dance and an exploration of sexual identity fuel this critical-poetic coming-of-age story.
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  • A Poet

    The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder…
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  • As Far as We Could Get

    Switching back and forth between two antipodal cities, filmmaker Iván Argote digs an imaginary tunnel between Indonesia and Colombia.
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  • 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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  • The Palace on the Sea

    The lead is a richly decorated, moored ship. A man and woman meet there as if in another time and place.
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