What's special about the 2025 Indonesian Film Festival?

Official flyer of Indonesian Film Festival 2025 Melbourne , 2- 4 May at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne. Image: Courtesy IFF 2025.

Official flyer of Indonesian Film Festival 2025 Melbourne , 2- 4 May at ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne. Image: Courtesy IFF 2025.

As last year, the 2025 Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) also only features three films, which will be screened at ACMI, Federation Square Melbourne from 2 - 4 May.


From the committee, Windy, Salma and Malika each explained to SBS Indonesian about the films screened this year. The first film from FFI 2025 is entitled "1 KAKAK 7 KEPONAKAN" written and directed by the reliable Indonesian filmmaker Deddy Mizwar, indeed in his writing Deddy was also inspired by his life experiences or his extended family.

What about the horror film LEMBAYUNG? According to Salma, Indonesian horror films are usually good and scary and full of mysticism. He said that the mystical horror genre film can be used as an effort to preserve Indonesian culture which in everyday life is full of mysticism. While the closing film of FFI this time according to Windy is an interesting film and therefore a bigger cinema is provided. The title alone. PERAYAAN MATI RASA. Can you imagine it?
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