Breaking The Record, JAFF 2025 Receives Nearly 900 Films And Ready To Show 227 Films From 43 Countries

JAFF Press Conference (Virgi/VOI)

JAKARTA The Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF) has again proven itself to be one of the most prestigious film festivals in Asia. This year, JAFF recorded a significant increase in the number of registrants and is ready to show hundreds of films from various countries.

JAFF's director's program, Alexander Matthew, revealed that the enthusiasm of filmmakers to participate this year has increased rapidly.

"This year the number of registrants rose from 784 years ago to 894," Alexander Matthew said at a press conference in South Jakarta, Wednesday, November 5.

Of the hundreds of films that have registered, JAFF will screen a total of 227 selected films from 43 different countries.

"Last year was under 200, this year there are 227," he added.

To accommodate the increasing number of films, JAFF added one screening studio at its main location.

This year we will show all the films in the six Empire studios. So add one studio," explained Alexander.

This scale increase shows JAFF's increasingly strong position in the international film scene. Not only increasing the number of films, but JAFF has also expanded its genre coverage by introducing several innovative new programs.

Two of them are 'Transcenence' for experimental films and 'Resonance' for branded content.

"A new program on JAFF, firstly it's called Transcendence. The focus is on experimental films," said Alexander.

In addition, JAFF also embraces audio-visual works from the fashion and music world through the Resonance' and sound-dis programs.

This resonance is similar to the branded content concept. This year we are working with as far as the eye looks at it," he said.

"For Sound-dis, this year there are two works, namely Galura Tropicalia from The Panturas and Harapan, a music video from The Adams," he concluded.