Jakarta World Cinema 2024 unveils the full lineup for its third edition, adding new strands and a competition section.
Jakarta World Cinema (JWC) formely known as Jakarta World Cinema Week (JWCW), has unveiled the official lineup for its third edition, running from September 21 to 28. This year’s festival will feature major films from Cannes, Berlinale and Venice across ten new strands, including its first competitive section.
The JWC was first held in 2022 as a non-competitive festival but included an Audience Award for its selection. The winner of its inaugural edition was Rebel, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. The second edition was highlighted by the Cannes Critics’ Week title Inshallah a Boy by Amjad Al Rasheed, which also served as the opening film and was crowned the winner. For its third edition, the JWC is expanding its program to include 10 new strands, featuring 120 titles from 61 countries.
The JWC Icon section will showcase the new works from established filmmakers, including Jia Zhangke (Caught by the Tides), Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig), Miguel Gomes (Grand Tour) and Matthias Glassner (Dying). The Discovery section will present Payal Kapadia’s first fiction film All We Imagine As Light, along with Ariane Labed’s directorial debut September Says and Simon of the Mountain by Federico Luis, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Critics’ Week 2024.
The Contemporary World Cinema will feature a diverse selection of films by renowned auteurs and emerging talents from around the globe. Highlights include Berlinale hit My Favourite Cake by Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia’s sophomore feature Demba, and Sex, the first entry in Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy. Spotlight Asia will include films from South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Palestine, Saudi Arabia. Georgian director Levan Akin’s Turkey-set Crossing and Swiss-produced The Shameless by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov, about forbidden love set in India, also a part of this section.
New and emerging talents will compete in the First Feature Competition, which features 13 debut films. Notable entries include The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe; Tunisia’s Who Do I Belong To, produced by Tanit Films (Four Daughters); Berlinale winner Young Hearts; and Nelicia Low’s Pierce, fresh from its world premiere at Karlovy Vary 2024 which earned her Best Director Award. In our review for Who Do I Belong To, we described it as “a visually stunning, deeply affecting, and haunting debut”. The jury, composed of Indonesian filmmakers Lola Amaria (The Exiles), Makbul Mubarak (Venice’s Autobiography) and Yosep Anggi Noen (Locarno Special Mention winner for The Science of Fictions) will award the Best Film and Best Director in this competition section.
The festival will also present 4K Remastered versions of the Thai horror Shutter and local titles Putri Duyung and Bangkitnya Si Mata Malaikat and will open with the screening of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and close with Andrea Arnold’s Bird.
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OPENING FILM
The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
(USA, UK, France)
CLOSING FILM
Bird by Andrea Arnold
(UK, USA, France, Germany)
FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION
Good One by India Donaldson
(USA)
Young Hearts by Anthony Schatteman
(Belgium, Netherlands)
Last Swim by Sasha Nathwani
(UK)
The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe
(Austria, France, Germany, Somalia)
Day of the Fight by Jack Huston
(USA)
Silent Roar by Johnny Barrington
(UK)
Block Pass by Antoine Chevrollier
(France)
Locust by KEFF
(Taiwan, France, USA)
Who Do I Belong To by Meryam Joobeur
(Tunisia, France, Canada)
Brief History of a Family by Lin Jianjie
(China, France, Denmark, Qatar)
Pierce by Nelicia Low
(Singapore, Taiwan, Poland)
Girls Will Be Girls by Shuchi Talati
(India, France, USA, Norway)
The Paradise of Thorns by Boss Kuno
(Thailand)
JWC ICON
Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
(France)
Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhangke
(China)
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
(Portugal, Italy, France)
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
(France, Belgium)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
(Germany, France)
Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
(France, Italy)
Dying by Matthias Glasner
(Germany)
DISCOVERY
All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia
(France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
(Latvia, France, Belgium)
Sing Sing by Greg Kwedar
(USA)
September Says by Ariane Labed
(Ireland, UK, Germany)
The Dog Thief by Vinko Tomičić Salinas
(Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, France, Ecuador, Italy)
Simon of the Mountain by Federico Luis
(Argentina, Chile, Uruguay)
Exhibiting Forgiveness by Titus Kaphar
(USA)
Sons by Gustav Möller
(Denmark, Sweden)
Wild Diamond by Agathe Reidinger
(France)
The Balconettes by Noemie Merlant
(France)
Eephus by Carson Lund
(USA, France)
Adult Best Friends by Delaney Buffett
(USA)
Kidnapping Inc. by Bruno Mourral
(France, Canada, Haiti)
Heartless by Nara Normande and Tião
(Brazil, France, Italy)
Peak Season by Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner
(USA)
In Flames by Zarrar Kahn
(Canada, Pakistan)
Tuesday by Daina O. Pusić
(USA, UK)
The Rooster by Mark Leonard Winter
(Australia)
20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
(Spain)
City of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
(France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Qatar, Germany)
The Queen of My Dreams by Fawzia Mirza
(Canada)
Hey, Viktor! by Cody Lighting
(Canada)
Daddio by Christy Hall
(USA)
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
The Girl With the Needle by Magnus von Horn
(Denmark, Poland, Sweden)
La Cocina by Alonso Ruizpalacios
(Mexico, USA)
Ghostlight by Kelly O’Sullivan
(USA)
Mamifera by Liliana Torres
(Spain)
Chuck Chuck Baby by Jenis Pugh
(UK)
The Other Way Around by Jonas Trueba
(Spain, France)
My Favourite Cake by Maryam Moqadam and Behtash Sanaeeha
(Iran, France, Sweden, Germany)
The Damned by Roberto Minervini
(Italy, USA, Belgium)
Three Kilometers to the End of the World by Emanuel Pârvu
(Romania)
Visiting Hours by Patricia Mazuy
(France)
Being Maria by Jessica Palud
(France)
Samia by Yasemin Samdereli
(Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden)
The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
(France)
Demba by Mamadou Dia
(Senegal, Germany, Qatar)
Seven Viels by Atom Egoyan
(Canada)
Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud
(Norway)
The Good Teacher by Teddy Lussi-Modeste
(France, Belgium)
Guardians of the Formula by Dragan Bjelogrlić
(Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia)
Paradises of Diane by Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann
(Switzerland)
The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri
(Canada, France)
Je’vida by Katja Gauriloff
(Finland)
Widow Clicquot by Thomas Napper
(USA, UK, France)
Race for Glory: Audi Vs Lancia by Stefano Mordini
(Italy, UK)
Deserts by Faouzi Bensaïdi
(France, Germany, Morocco, Belgium)
Cold by Erlingur Thoroddsen
(Iceland)
Blind at Heart by Barbara Albert
(Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg)
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry by Elene Naveriani
(Switzerland, Georgia)
NIGHT SCREAMER
Gazer by Ryan J. Sloan
(USA)
Coup! by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman
(USA)
Booger by Kenny Suleimanagich
(USA)
Kryptic by Kourtney Roy
(Canada, UK)
The Devil’s Bath by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
(Austria, Germany)
The Damned by Thordur Palsson
(UK, Iceland, Ireland, Belgium)
Things Will Be Different by Michael Felker
(USA)
The Count of Monte-Cristo by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière
(France)
The Successor by Xavier Legrand
(France, Belgium, Canada)
We Are Zombies by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
(Canada, France)
Amelia’s Children by Gabriel Abrantes
(Portugal)
SPOTLIGHT ASIA
Crossing by Levan Akin
(Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia)
A Traveler’s Need by Hong Sangsoo
(South Korea)
The Shameless by Konstantin Bojanov
(Switzerland, Bulgaria, France, Taiwan, India)
Great Absence by Kei Chika-ura
(Japan)
Above the Dust by Wang Xiaoshuai
(China, Netherlands)
Black Dog by Guan Hu
(China)
All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung
(Hong Kong)
Norah by Tawfik Alzaidi
(Saudi Arabia)
Leila’s Brothers by Saeed Roustayi
(Iran)
52 Hertz Whales by Izuru Narushima
(Japan)
Silent Love by Eiji Uchida
(Japan)
The Teacher by Farah Nabulsi
(UK, Palestine, Qatar)
When The Waves Are Gone by Lav Diaz
(Philippines, France, Portugal, Denmark)
Hajjan by Abu Bakr Shawky
(Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan)
The Hotel by Wang Xiaoshuai
(China, Hong Kong)
WEEKENDER
Ghost Cat Anzu by Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita
(France, Japan)
Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger
(Spain, France)
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point by Tyler Taormina
(USA)
Jippie No More by Margien Rogaar
(Netherlands)
REAL TO REEL
Dahomey by Mati Diop
(France, Senegal, Benin)
No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
(Palestine, Norway)
Us, Our Pets and the War by Anton Ptushkin
(Ukraine, Canada)
Pictures of Ghosts by Kleber Mendonça Filho
(Brazil)
In Viaggio by Gianfranco Rosi
(Italy)
The Echo by Tatiana Huezo
(Mexico, Germany)
KLIKFILM REMASTERED
Shutter by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom
(Thailand)
Krakatau by Misbach Yusa Biran
(Indonesia)
Bangkitnya Si Mata Malaikat by Iksan Lahardi
(Indonesia)
Soerabaja 45 by Imam Tantowi
(Indonesia)
Badai Jalanan by Dhany Firdaus HS
(Indonesia)
Putri Duyung by Atok Suharto
(Indonesia)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Hesitation Wound by Selman Nacar
(Turkey, Spain, Romania, France)
Everybody Loves Touda by Nabil Ayouch
(France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway)
Brief History of a Family by Lin Jianjie
(China, France, Denmark, Qatar)
Pierce by Nelicia Low
(Singapore, Taiwan, Poland)
Dewi
(Indonesia)
Winter Elegy
(Indonesia)
Malam Pertobatan
(Indonesia)
Jakarta World Cinema is organized by Abhiseka Foundation, and powered by KlikFilm. The third edition will run on 21-28 September 2024.
