We continue with our recommendations for the the Jakarta Film Week which will take place from October 25 – 29, 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

To see the first part of this article please go HERE
For this festival we also recommended 10 feature films, to see the article please go HERE.

Invisibles by Esteban García Garzón – Colombia | 2022 – 21 minutes
Azen, a 9-year-old boy, begins to see strange beings in the jungle. He must decide whether to accept to enter his magical world or allow the jungle to continue filling with corpses from the armed conflict. (JFW 2023)

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Jiwo by Luhki Herwanayogi – Indonesia | 2022 – 19 minutes
On his daughter’s wedding day, a father struggles with the onset of schizophrenia and composing himself to be the person his family needs him to be. (JFW 2023)

Same Old by Llyod Lee Choi – USA, Canada | 2022 – 15 minutes
Lu, a Chinese immigrant scraping by as a delivery worker, sustains his wife and ailing mother in a relentless city. When his bike, his lifeline, is stolen, he is thrust into a desperate quest to recover it or risk unraveling the fragile life he’s forged in America. (JFW 2023)

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Sawo Matang by Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto – Indonesia | 2023 – 21 minutes
In a post-New Order Jakarta, Native Indonesians (Pribumi) are legalized to perform the black magic ritual “Babi Ngepet” to balance their economy against Chinese Indonesians. When Kai, a Chinese Indonesian boy, needs money for university, he asks his best friend Nala, a Pribumi girl, to perform the ritual for him. (JFW 2023)

Swallow by Mai Nakanishi – Taiwan, Japan | 2023 – 22 minutes
A striving actress is invited to a mysterious gourmet club only to discover that her competition has prepared a horrifying banquet. (JFW 2023)

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The Moisture by Turan Haste – Turkey | 2022 – 21 minutes
The film focuses on teacher İshak, who is doing his compulsory duty in a pathless village in Anatolia, and questions the forms and consequences of humanity’s struggle with evil as it tinkers with the concepts of guilt and innocence in pursuit of a missing female student. (JFW 2023)

The Rootless Bloom by Rein Maychaelson – Indonesia | 2023 – 15 minutes
As their parents’ divorce looms, siblings Jena and Cindy are asked to choose between their parents. Amid their parents’ fierce arguments, Jena and Cindy decide to run away from home and revisit and cherish their happy childhood memories in the city where they grew up. (JFW 2023)

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Three Sisters by Iman Behrouzi – Iran | 2022 – 12 minutes
A meditative symphony on the city and death. The filmmaker returns to places where he, 18 years earlier, had made a film about suicide. Now, in the crowded streets of Tehran and in the city’s rundown corners with flanked walls, he searches for the reasons that had led three sisters to end their lives together. (JFW 2023)

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Vania on Lima Street by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon – Indonesia | 2022 – 24 minutes
Vania (7) faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured motorbike thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicine store. (JFW 2023)

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Will You Look at Me by Shuli Huang – China | 2023 – 15 minutes
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search of himself, a long-due conversation with his mother dives the two into a quest for acceptance and love. (JFW 2023)

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To see the first part of this article please go HERE
For this festival we also recommended 10 feature films, to see the article please go HERE.

For more information, please visit: https://jakartafilmweek.com/en/