ETERNAL SPRING (長春) 17+
86 min | 2022 | Documentary, Animation | China & Canada | Mandarin & English with English subtitles
Director : Jason Loftus
When members of Falun Gong hack China’s state TV to expose brutal repression – lives are changed forever. Celebrated comic book artist Daxiong tells a story of the resilience of those fighting for religious freedom.
Selected Accolades
Official submission of Canada for the Best International Feature of Academy Awards 2023
Winner Best Canadian Documentary, Vancouver Film Critics Award 2023
Winner Hot Docs Audience Award, Hot Docs 2022
Winner Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs 2022
Winner – Hellenic Parliament Human Values Award Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2022
Winner Special Mention Grand Jury Documentary Award, Movies That Matter 2022
Screen Time
2 Oct, 17.00, Erasmus Huis
3 Oct, 18.00, SAE Institute Sound Stage
5 Oct, 13.00, Institut Kesenian Jakarta
8 Oct, 17.00, Austria Embassy
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FACELESS 17+
82 min | 2021 | Documentary | Hong Kong & United States | Cantonese with English subtitles
Director : Jennifer Ngo
Following four youth embroiled in protests against a controversial extradition bill, this record bears witness to Hong Kong’s collective awakening in 2019 to the larger fight against anti-authoritarianism to protect their freedom and democratic way of life.
Selected Accolades
Official Selection of Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection of Busan International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection of Hawaii International Film Festival 2021
Winner Youth Documentary Award, Bergen International Film Festival 2021
Official Selection of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2021
Screen Time
2 Oct, 17.00, SAE Institute Sound Stage
3 Oct, 17.00, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
4 Oct, 17.00, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
7 Oct, 14.30, Austrian Embassy
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20,000 SPECIES OF BEESS (20.000 especies de abejas) 13+
125 min | 2023 | Drama | Spain | Spanish, Basque and French with English subtitles
Director : Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
An eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. During a summer in the Basque Country among the beehives, she explores her identity alongside the women of her family, who at the same time reflect on their own lives and desires.
Selected Accolades
Winner Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, Berlinale 2023
Winner of the Ibero-American Fiction Feature Film Award for Best First Feature, Best Direction, and Best Acting Ensemble, Guadalajara International Film Festival 2023
Winner Best Actress Young International Film Festival Competition, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2023
Winner Golden Biznaga for best film, Malaga International Film Festival 2023
Screen Time
30 Sep, 16.30, Goethe Haus Auditorium (Invitation Only)
30 Sep, 19.00, IFI Yogyakarta
4 Oct, 19.30, Goethe Haus Auditorium
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RICEBOY SLEEPS 13+
117 min | 2022 | Drama, Coming of Age | Canada | English and Korean with English subtitles
Director : Anthony Shim
A Korean single mother immigrated to Canada with her young son in the 1990s and must navigate the challenges of motherhood and adapting to a new world in this poignant award-winning coming of age drama.
Selected Accolades
Winner of Original Screenplay, Canadian Screen Awards 2023
Winner Platform Prize, Toronto International Film Festival 2022
Winner, Best Canadian Film Award, Toronto Film Critics Association 2022
Screen Time
8 Oct, 17.00, Goethe Haus Auditorium (Invitation Only)
8 Oct, 19.30, Goethe Haus Auditorium
8 Oct, 19.00, IFI Yogyakarta
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Dodo 17+
132 min | 2022 | Comedy | Greece, France, Belgium | Greek, French with English subtitles
Director : Panos H. Koutras
In their luxurious villa near Athens, Mariella and Pavlos, a couple on the brink of financial ruin, are about to celebrate the long-awaited wedding of their daughter Sofia to a wealthy heir. Then, a dodo, a bird that became extinct 300 years ago, appears, dragging all the protagonists into a crazy round. The situation will soon be out of control.
Selected Accolades
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022
Official Selection TLVFest Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival 2022
Official Selection Munich Greek Film Week 2022
Screen Time
2 Oct, 17.00, Goethe Haus Auditorium
2 Oct, 19.00, IFI Yogyakarta
7 Oct, 19.00, SAE Institute Auditorium
8 Oct, 14.30, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
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IO STO BENE 17+
94 min | 2020 | Fiction |Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany & Italy | Italian, French, Luxembourgish & English with English subtitles
Director : Donato Rotunno
Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman’s destinies mirror each other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them.
Selected Accolades
Official submission of Luxembourg for the Best International Feature of Academy Awards 2022
Screen Time
30 Sep, 16.30, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
5 Oct, 17.00, SAE Institute Auditorium
7 Oct, 12.00, Austrian Embassy
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A Boarding School (Pesantren) 13+
95 min | 2019 | Documentary | Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles
Director : Shalahuddin Siregar
In Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, more than four million students attend more than 29,000 Islamic boarding schools. Pesantren offers a rare insight into daily life at such a traditional school. From the students’ sporadic contacts with home, sacrifices are sometimes made to finance their education.
Selected Accolades
In Competition XXI Asiatica Film Festival 2020
Official Selection International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2019
Screen Time
1 Oct, 19.00, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
3 Oct, 19.00, IFI Yogyakarta
7 Oct, 16.00, Erasmus Huis
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ALI & THE QUEENS (ALI &RATU-RATU QUEENS) 13+
100 min | 2021 | Drama, Komedi | Indonesia | Indonesia, English with English subtitles
Director : Lucky Kuswandi
After his father’s passing, a teenager sets out for New York in search of his estranged mother and soon finds love and connection in unexpected places.
Selected Accolades
Winner Best Supporting Actress, Festival Film Indonesia 2021
Best Feature Film and Best Director nominee, Festival Film Indonesia 2021
Best Feature Film and Best Director nominee, Piala Maya 2021
Screen Time
1 Oct, 12.30, Goethe Haus Auditorium (100% Cinergi)
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BREAKING THE ICE 17+
102 min | 2022 | Drama | Austria | German with English subtitles
Director : Clara Stern
Mira, in her early 20s, escapes from the pressure of running her family’s vineyard by playing ice hockey. When new player Theresa joins the team, she challenges Mira’s rigid worldview, leading to life-changing nights on the streets of Vienna.
Selected Accolades
Winner Best Script, Youth Jury Prize, and Best Socially Relevant Film, Max Ophüls Awards 2023
Tribeca IFF Official Selection 2022
Screen Time
30 Sep, 16.00, IFI Thamrin
6 Oct, 18.30, IFI Thamrin
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HILMA 17+
119 min | 2022 | Drama, Biography | Sweden | English with English subtitles
Director : Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström’s HILMA brings to life the story of a woman who revolutionized the art world when her work was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 2019 and reveals the personal side of her Bohemian life.
Selected Accolades
Best Makeup and Audience Award nominee, Guldbagge Awards 2023
Official Selection Palm Springs International Film Festival 2023
Screen Time
1 Oct, 17.00, Goethe Haus Auditorium
7 Oct, 19.30, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
8 Oct, 16.30, IFI Yogyakarta
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THE LAW OF LOVE (ZÁKON LÁSKY) 17+
89 min | 2022 | Documentary | Czech Republic | Czech & English with English subtitles
Director : Barbora Chalupová
It looks like the Czech society is Gender Identity friendly. But when it comes to legalizing marriage, ignorance and hatred suddenly appear. Czeslaw, and his companions run a campaign to show that the fight for Sexual and Identity Gender rights in Europe is not over.
Selected Accolades
Nominee Amnesty International Poland Award, Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2022
Screen Time
2 Oct, 17.00, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
3 Oct, 16.30, IFI Yogyakarta
4 Oct, 17.00, SAE Institut Sound Stage
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SILVER HAZE 21+
103 min | 2023 | Drama | Netherlands, United Kingdom| English with English subtitles
Director : Sacha Polak
23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges of the past.
Selected Accolades
Winner of Teddy Jury Award, Berlinale International Film Festival 2023
Panorama Audience Award nominee, Berlinale International Film Festival 2023
Best International Narrative Feature nominee, Tribeca Film Festival 2023
Screen Time
30 Sep, 18.30, IFI Thamrin
7 Oct, 16.00, IFI Thamrin
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BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR 13+
107 min | 2021 | Comedy | USA | English with Indonesia subtitles
Director : Josh Greenbaum
Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time – ever.
Selected Accolades
Best Comedy nominee, Critics Choice Awards 2022
Best Duo nominee, MTV Movie + TV Awards 2021
Best Original Screenplay nominee, International Online Cinema Awards 2022
Screen Time
30 Sep, 20.00, Summarecon Mall Bekasi Area Pasar Senggol
4 Oct, 19.00, Goethe Haus Open Air
8 Oct, 20.00, Summarecon Mall Bekasi Area Pasar Senggol
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BROKER 13+
129 min | 2022 | Drama | South Korea | Korean with Indonesia subtitles
Director : Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Sang-hyun runs a laundry shop, but is constantly saddled with debt. Dong-soo, who grew up in an orphanage, works in a baby box facility. One night in the pouring rain, they secretly carry off an infant who was left at the baby box. But on the following day, the mother So-young unexpectedly returns for her son Woo-sung. Realizing that her baby has been taken, she is about to call the police when the two men tell her everything. Their claim that they stole the baby in order to find him a good home seems outrageous, but So-young ends up joining Sang-hyun and Dong-soo on a journey to find new parents for Woo-sung.
Selected Accolades
Palm d’Or nominee and Winner Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2022
Winner Robert Bresson Award, Venice Film Festival 2022
Winner Best Director, Asian Film Award 2023
Screen Time
2 Oct, 19.00, Goethe Haus Open Air
4 Oct, 19.30, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
7 Oct, 20.00, Summarecon Mall Bekasi Area Pasar Senggol
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ASHKAL (ASHKAL: THE TUNISIAN INVESTIGATION) 17+
92 min | 2022 | Drama, Crime | France, Tunisia, Qatar | Arabic with English subtitles
Director : Youssef Chebbi
In the Gardens of Carthage, a district of Tunis initiated by the former Regime which construction stopped at the beginning of the Revolution, two cops, Fatma and Batal, find a burnt body in one of the lots. As construction slowly resumes, they start looking into this mysterious case. When the event repeats itself, the investigation takes a puzzling turn.
Selected Accolades
Official Selection Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2022
Official Selection Contemporary World Cinema, Toronto International Film Festival 2022
Special Jury Mention for Best First Film, Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film 2022
Winner of Prix de la Critique, Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival 2022
Screen Time
6 Oct, 16.00, IFI Thamrin
7 Oct, 12.00, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
8 Oct, 12.00, Austrian Embassy
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GOLIATH 17+
122 min | 2022 | Drama, Thriller | France, Belgium| French and English with English subtitles
Director : Frédéric Tellier
Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.
Screen Time
2 Oct, 19.30, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta
4 Oct, 16.00, IFI Thamrin
6 Oct, 19.30, Austrian Embassy