Jakarta World Cinema Festival Brings Global Mix to Indonesia’s Wide-Eyed Audiences
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Operating for only the third time, the Jakarta World Cinema film festival is bringing a diverse slate of global and local pictures to Indonesia’s biggest city.
It kicked off in high style on Saturday with a screening of Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance.” The body horror-fantasy debuted at Cannes and has already proved a popular choice as either opening or closing film at multiple film festivals.
In Jakarta, it got a reaction, extracting shrieks, gasps and applause from the opening night crowd. Earlier, in a breezy ceremony, complete with dancers replicating some of “The Substance’s” fitness moves, audiences had been told that organizers had assembled a lineup of just over a hundred titles.
In a country, where cinema is popular, but a class of risk-taking indie distributors is an industry sector has yet to be fully developed, that is a significant number.
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