Name: Jakarta Independent Film Festival 2024
Start: 2024-11-23T16:00:00+07:00
End: 2024-11-24T19:00:00+07:00
Location: Gripa Studio

The Jakarta Independent Film Festival 2024 will take place on 23 and 24 November at the Gripa Studio. With a diverse programme of 13 indie films by Indonesian and foreign filmmakers, the JIFF will celebrate independent cinema from around the world.
📌Admission is Free - First come, first served
📌Films are in English or with English subtitles
PROGRAMME:
🎞️DAY 1
🕛16:00-17:00
▶️The Shadow Workers, Annelein Pompe, 47' • Belgium • 2021, cat: Best International Feature Film
The Shadow Workers is a fable documentary in which the upside-down-pigeon named Lukaku tells us the story of Usman and the Dutch Good-for-nothing. Usman works in a night shop and can only sleep during the day while the Good for Nothing works in a honey shop. Together they embody the non-stop working rhythm of the world we live in today. The bird Lukaku takes us on an anthropologic journey, reflecting on the role of dreams in the lives of these two working humans in the city of Ghent.
🕛SHORT FILMS: 17:10-18:40

▶️Until Then, Jacob Alcala, 21' • Philippines • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Film
It is Poy’s last night in the Philippines. He and his family are again migrating somewhere far from home. Feeling disoriented by this impending move, he runs away to Manila, the city he never had the chance to know. The night grants him a chance meeting with a weary local named Shirley, who is grappling with her own life's disappointments. Bound by the night's unfortunate events, he follows her through the city, where they must decide between facing their anxieties or being consumed by them.
▶️Nusa Ina, Anne Jan Sijbrandij, 34' • Netherlands • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Documentary
60 years after their refuge to the Netherlands, Loey Tamaëla and his family are still hoping to one day return to a free Moluccas. Their memories of Nusa Ina, the mother island, strengthen a dream of protecting their Moluccan identity. Perhaps knowing that everything will eventually become history.
▶️Spring Roll Dream, Mai Vu, 9' • United Kingdom • 2022, Best Short Animation
Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who’s successfully forged a life for herself and her son in America. But when her father from Vietnam visits and insists on cooking the family a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family’s new life.
▶️Icing on Her Cake, Cedric Christophorus, Victoria Gunawan 10' • United States • 2023. Best Indonesian Short Film
A reserved Southeast Asian woman tries to understand the life of her American housemate solely through the groceries of their shared refrigerator, sticky notes, and a series of voicemails.
▶️The Foam and the Lion, Cláudio Jordão, 19' • Portugal • 2022, Category: Best Short Animation
On July 6th, 1808, the "Bom Sucesso" caique and 18fishermen left Olhão, in Portugal, towards Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), taking with them the good news that Portugal was finally free of Napoleon's enemy troops.

🎞️DAY 2
🕛16:00-17:40
Between The Mountain and The Sky, Jeremy Power Regimbal, 94' • Nepal • 2024
An inspiring story of love and resilience after tragedy strikes humanitarian Maggie Doyne, mother to over 50 Nepalese children.
🕛SHORT FILMS: 17:50-19:00
▶️A Star is Fucking Born, Dhika Rizki Sandy, 20' • Indonesia • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Documentary
After singing at a dangdut show, Alya was surprised by a debt collector who charged her mother for the rent of her house. This left Alya's family with a headache. They had to think fast about how they could make a lot of money in a short period of time. One night Alya looked back at her tiktok account, her singing content never went up again like usual.
▶️Sunset at Alverno, Ade Gilang Alparizi,16' • Indonesia • 2022 Best Indonesian Short Documentary
Ex. leprosy patient who once experienced being treated differently, rejected, abandoned, and stigmatized, and how that stigma still persists in society to this day. Now, they persevere and struggle to work as vegetable farmers, supported by the SFIC sisters.
▶️I Swarnangkara, Petra Patria D Paramita, 8' • Indonesia • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Film
I Swarnangkara was haunted by a monster. Despite his fear, he decided to stop running and face the monster once and for all.
▶️The Art of Giving, Mickael Couturier, 12' • Indonesia • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Documentary
A young cook, an 8-year-old girl and an artist come together to help the trash picker kids of Bali, who live at the foot of a 40-meter-high trash mountain.
▶️The Whistle Starts Whispering, Yusuf Jacka Ardana, 9' • Indonesia • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Documentary
One day at a stadium, football fans start arriving to watch their beloved team’s match.
▶️Mother?, Elisabeth Katie Soleman, 5' • Indonesia • 2023, Best Indonesian Short Film
A young boy who is on holiday with his parents in Semarang. Throughout the journey, the parents often argued without paying attention to the child sitting behind. When it was afternoon they stopped at the nearest gas station close to the forest. The child, whose parents didn't pay enough attention, continued to fight, then met a mysterious woman who took him into the forest. But the child was not aware that the woman was Wewe Gombel.