Netanya Yemima, whose short film “The Most Handsome Fish on Earth” premiered at the 20th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival last year, has her feature directorial debut “To My Dearest, My Dear…”...

Indonesia’s cinema market is experiencing significant volatility in 2025, with box office numbers fluctuating despite breakthrough successes, according to industry leaders speaking at the JAFF Market panel “Expert Witnesses: Indonesia’s...

Indonesia’s Mandela Pictures and Korea-L.A.-based Desert Bloom Pictures have forged a four-film development slate, with the pact unveiled at the JAFF Market in Yogyakarta. The partnership establishes a pipeline of projects...

Kanya Iwana, an Indonesian multidisciplinary artist making her feature directorial debut, has “Ibu” selected for the JAFF Future Project, about three generations of women wrestling with inherited identity in 2011 Yogyakarta....

Park Ki-yong, who stepped down as chair of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) last year and directed “Motel Cactus,” which won the New Currents Award at the 1998 Busan International Film...

Triple Green CineCapital, a new film investment venture focused on Southeast Asian markets, has launched at the JAFF Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The company, led by Singapore-based producer Leonard Lai and...

Indonesian filmmaker Adriyanto Dewo has a new psychological horror project selected for the JAFF Future Project with “Evil Underground,” about estranged sisters trapped in a mall basement. The Indonesia production, directed...

Jakarta Vice Governor and veteran actor Rano Karno used a JAFF Market panel in Yogyakarta to outline a plan to position the capital as a global filmmaking hub ahead of its...