FilmCinema
Reviews: Flipping the national story of 1965
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
Review: When perpetrators speak
Joshua Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking new film raises disturbing questions about why perpetrators of the 1965-66 mass killings still enjoy impunity for their actions
Review: An act of manipulation?
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a bold, disturbing and ultimately unsatisfactory exploration of the place of violence in modern Indonesia
Watching Balibo in Jakarta
Packed screenings of the controversial film about the deaths of five Australian journalists in East Timor continue, despite an official ban
Indonesia's Q!Film Festival
Young Indonesians are using an alternative film festival to promote awareness of sexual diversity
Two Sumatran films
The National Library of Australia now has the most comprehensive collection of Indonesian films available outside of Indonesia. Two films in this collection come from Sumatra.
Alleyway revelry
The ‘Gang’ approach to cross-cultural collaboration.
Girl culture on the big screen
No longer misfits, but far from gender warriors
The demand for sustainable timber is colliding with the needs of Central Java farmers
Jusuf Wanandi’s memoir allows glimpses into the mindset of Suharto-era officialdom
Indonesia’s parliament is cracking down on sorcery
Recent ground-breaking publications, an internationally award-winning film and a major conference are opening up new truths about Indonesia’s past
The filmmaker explains that The Act of Killing exposes the imagination of terror
