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JAFF Future Project is a space for emerging filmmakers to meet with industry professionals. Designed to find potential and quality feature film projects.  

Indonesian production “The Light of Fire” (Tinju Api), a coming-of-age action drama from director-writer Sesarini, is being presented at the inaugural JAFF Market, running alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival.

A new documentary project, “Me, My Mother’s Favorite Monkey” (Aku, Monyet Kesayangan Ibuku), helmed by director Ivonne Kani, examines Chinese-Indonesian identity through the lens of intergenerational family dynamics at the inaugural JAFF Market in Yogyakarta.

Indonesia’s Base Entertainment and Netherlands-based New Amsterdam have partnered on two projects, the companies revealed at the inaugural JAFF Market that takes place alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (JAFF) in Yogyakarta (Jogja) from Dec. 3-5.

The newly signed co-production treaty between the Netherlands and Indonesia aims to strengthen bilateral film collaboration, providing filmmakers from both countries access to national funding schemes and production incentives, industry leaders revealed at the inaugural JAFF Market in Jogja, Indonesia during a panel.

Indonesiana.TV, the government-backed digital platform, is teaming up with the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival‘s new JAFF Market 2024 initiative to expand distribution channels for Indonesian filmmakers. The collaboration marks a strategic push to connect local content creators with international buyers and strengthen the country’s growing film ecosystem.