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The 2022 Indonesian Film Festival celebrates women and local film industry’s growth
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Winners: The cast and crew of 'Before, Now & Then (Nana)' get onstage to receive the Citra Award for best feature-length film. (Courtesy of FFI) (Courtesy of Festival Film Indonesia)
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em>The Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) celebrates an inclusive list of winners as the nation echoes similar joy at the country’s film industry achievements this year.
There had seemingly never been such elation surrounding the prestigious night of the Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) than this year. It might have been the post-pandemic glee, or it might have been that the nominees in each category had been celebrated throughout the year.
“To this day, there are 12 Indonesian films that have generated over 1 million viewers and reached an Indonesian film market share of over 61 percent, compared with 48 percent in 2019,” Indonesian actor Reza Rahadian said during the event’s opening speech. He is also the current chairperson of the FFI.
Such numbers, plus the ever-enthusiastic FFI audience online on YouTube, showed that the interest of the Indonesian audience in local films is reaching new highs. But our films not only prosper locally; many of this year’s films, from short to feature length, have been making the rounds internationally, winning awards from one celebrated festival to another.
“Indonesian films are currently on fire,” Ahmad Mahendra, director of the music, film and media division of the Education, Culture, Research and Technology Ministry, said on the red carpet before the event.
“Our films have won a lot of awards overseas, our [local film] sales beat foreign films here, [...] the quality of these films is also good, above all,” he added. This quality, in all categories, was apparent in the nominees presented.
