Kalimantan Film Festival To Speak Up On Behalf Of Indigenous People in Indonesia1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Kalimantan Indigenous Film Festival (KIFF) returns this year to amplify the voice of the often marginalized people.
A lineup of 21 films, mostly documentaries, will be screened in Cinema XXI in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on Aug. 9 and 10. The curated films come from local filmmakers in Kalimantan, Papua, Yogyakarta, Bali, as well as Thailand, India, Africa and Malaysia.
“We have had enough of filmmakers trying to depict indigenous peoples in a certain frame or even associating a certain stigma with us. It is time for us indigenous peoples to show who we really are, our cultures and beliefs. Not only to correct what has been presented before, but it should also be seen as self-empowering and self-discovering for us as well,” said Emmanuela Shinta, the founder of Ranu Welum Foundation, which organizes the festival.
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