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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Joko Anwar

Joko ANWAR (1976, Indonesia) worked as a film critic for The Jakarta Post until he wrote the groundbreaking The Gathering (2003), Indonesia’s first gay-themed film which win the award for Best Film at the Indonesian Film Festival. Two years later, he wrote and directed his feature-film debut Joni’s Promise, an international festival favourite. His fifth feature, A Copy of My Mind (2015), was nominated for a Horizons Award at the Venice Film Festival. Anwar’s films feature sensual and edgy details.

Filmografie

Janji Joni/Joni’s Promise (2005), Dead Time: Kala (2007), Pintu terlarang/The Forbidden Door (2008), La promesse (2009, short), Modus Anomali/Ritual (2012), A Copy of My Mind (2015), Pengabdi Setan/Satan’s Slaves (2017), Perempuan tanah jahanam/Impetigore (2019)

More info: Wikipedia, Joko Anwar

Joko Anwar at IFFR

  • Forbidden Door

    Elegant horror thriller by the film maker who gave the Indonesian Cinemark an audience and self-confidence. A successful sculptor goes off track wh

  • Impetigore

    Maya had imagined the return to her Javanese birthplace quite differently. Indonesian horror thriller replete with mystery, bloodletting and wayang

  • 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 s

  • Parts of the Heart

    Lessons in life about love: eight of these lessons about Peter from the age of ten to forty. Growing up as a homosexual in Indonesia. Autobiographi

  • La promesse

    Shot during a Swiss fantasy festival with a cigarette in one hand and the camera in the other. Pure DIY.Screened before At the Very Bottom of Every

  • Satan’s Slaves

    This idiosyncratic remake of the Indonesian horror classic from 1982 by versatile filmmaker Joko Anwar was the 2017 box office smash in his ho