Indonesia's film pipeline is surging into 2026 with a slate that spans prestige literary adaptations, bold auteur dramas, family tentpoles, genre breakouts and long-awaited franchise extensions.
Here are seven Indonesian films that not only broke audience records in 2025 but also left a lasting mark on the national ...
Last year’s inaugural JAFF Market served as an experiment – Indonesia’s first-ever film market testing whether the local industry was ready for such a platform. The answer, according to organizers, ...
Deep in the forests of southern Java, a chilling scene is playing out late into the night. A king possessed by a spirit, his face covered in bleeding sores comes charging out with a knife in hand, ...
Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but ...
Indonesia has selected Yandy Laurens’ “Sore: Wife From the Future” as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards. The romantic sci-fi drama, produced by ...
The Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) delegation has arrived at the Cannes Film Festival with plans to showcase Indonesia's burgeoning creative industries on the global stage. As JAFF prepares ...
Sinematek Indonesia (SI), located at the H. Usmar Ismail Film Center in Rasuna Said, South Jakarta, is the first film archive in Southeast Asia. Film enthusiasts and other stakeholders initiated the ...