Winners Of The 2023 Indonesian Film Festival Citra Cup Ready To Be Announced November 14

Ahmad Mahendra, Reza Rahadian, Garin Nugroho (Virgilery / VOI)

JAKARTA - The 2023 Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) Citra Award will take place on November 14, 2023 at Ciputra Artpreneur Theater, Jakarta at 19.00 WIB. FFI 2023 Awards will also be broadcast live through the YouTube channel and Instagram of the Indonesian Film Festival.

After announcing the list of nominees on October 14, 2023 at the National Museum of Indonesia, now is the time for the peak of the highest film award in Indonesia to be held. The 2023 FFI Award night took the theme and concept of 'Citra' which became the name of the FFI award since 1967.

FFI 2023 is also the last year for the FFI Committee for the 2021-2023 period chaired by Reza Rahadian. Reza Rahadian revealed that during the last three years the FFI was still in a pandemic period and now in an endemic period, he saw that many achievements had been made.

Among them are adapting to several requirements for films that deserve to register, until the presence of several new categories such as criticism and the category of favorite nominations for the audience's choice.

"The night of the 2023 FFI Citra Cup Award raised the concept of 'Citra.' We want to give advice to film people and the public that films and film people who are nominated this year are also part of the image of our film. Over the past three years, various dynamics in our film have gone through," said Reza Rahadian, quoted from the media received by VOI, Thursday, November 2.

"Hopefully in the last year my term as Chairman of the FFI Committee, I and all members of the FFI Committee 2021-2023 can provide the best for the public. Both in terms of implementation and assessment for all nominations," continued Reza.

Director General of the Ministry of Education and Culture Hilmar Farid represented by the Director of Film, Music and Media (PMM), Directorate General of Culture, Kemendikbudristek, Ahmad Mahendra added, the implementation of FFI under the Ministry of Education and Culture is a mandate to continue to provide concrete support to the arts and cultural ecosystem, especially the Indonesian film ecosystem.

"Over the last three years, we should be proud because Indonesia's film achievements are so brilliant. Both in terms of achievements in the industry with a reflection of the number of viewers and critical achievements through the victory of various Indonesian films at international festivals. Hopefully, with the implementation of FFI, it can also be a barometer of Indonesian cinema in the future and in the future," said Ahmad Mahendra.