The Japan Foundation Asia Center will hold the screening event "Colorful Indonesia 2" with Athenee Francais Cultural Center from Wednesday, January 25 through Saturday, January 28, as a Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) tie-up event.

On January 28, there will also be a symposium with the Indonesian filmmaker Eddie Cahyono, who directed SITI, and producer Meiske Taurisia who was involved in arranging these screenings. With film critic Chris Fujiwara as the moderator and Asako Fujioka (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival) as the interpreter, the symposium focuses on 'now' of contemporary Indonesian cinema which has many talented young filmmakers.

"Colorful Indonesia 2" will introduce attractive Indonesian films which are uniquely handpicked with an Indonesian point of view. Selections of the films are quite different from the time of the first event at TIFF. The line-up includes the omnibus film 9808 Anthology of 10th Year Indonesia Reform (2008) by young directors and artists like Edwin looking back on the dynamic changes in 1998, the pop music documentary of the Indonesian neo-acoustic band White Shoes & The Couples Company gaining reputation at home and overseas, Kamila Andini's newest short film Memoria (2016) set in Timor-Leste. Free booklets specially made for this event will be distributed to the participants in "Colorful Indonesia 2."

-Event Information-

1. Screening

[Dates] Wednesday, January 25 - Saturday, January 28, 2017

[Venue] Athenee Francais Cultural Center (Address: 4th Floor, 2-11, Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

[Tickets] Adult 1,300JPY / Student & Senior 1,100JPY / 3 ticket package 2,700JPY  / Members of Athenee Francais Cultural Center 800JPY   *Tickets are sold on the day of the screening and each ticket is valid for only one program.

[Films] 10 films including 1 omnibus film and 5 short films with Japanese subtitles

[Organized by] The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Athenee Francais Cultural Center

[Supported by] Tokyo International Film Festival

2. Symposium "Contemporary Indonesian films"

[Date & Time] Saturday, January 28, 2017 6:10 p.m. - 7:40 p.m.

[Venue] Athenee Francais  Cultural Center

[Admission] Admission free. No reservation required.

[Guests] Eddie Cahyono (Director), Meiske Taurisia (Producer)

[Moderator] Chris Fujiwara (Film Critic)

[Interpreter (Japanese and English)] Asako Fujioka (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival)

For more details on the event

http://jfac.jp/culture/events/crosscut-asia-indonesia2-17012528/

-The Japan Foundation Asia Center- http://jfac.jp/en/

The Japan Foundation is Japan's principal independent administrative institution dedicated to carrying out cultural exchange initiatives throughout the world. The Asia Center, established in April 2014, is a division within the Foundation that conducts and supports collaborative initiatives with its Asian-primarily ASEAN-counterparts. Through interacting and working together in Japanese-language education, arts and culture, sports, and grassroots and intellectual exchange, the Asia Center pursues to develop the sense of kinship and coexistence as neighboring inhabitants of Asia.