Cinemata Currents 2025_Post-Festival

Cinemata Currents 2025 gathered filmmakers, activists, and communities across Southeast Asia in a week-long hybrid film festival exploring how minor cinema can defend and reimagine civic spaces. This post-festival reflection captures key insights, highlights from curators and organizers, and what lies ahead as Cinemata continues to grow as a platform for regional connection and narrative resistance.

Between 2022 and 2024, a total of 29 incidents linked to the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) were documented. This data was collected through media monitoring, one of EngageMedia's initiatives aimed at gathering public reports on AI-related incidents. As the development of the 2025 AI Roadmap continues, this initiative can serve as a useful reference for government authorities to monitor and assess the progress and application of AI technologies within Indonesia.
Pemantauan media merupakan salah satu inisiatif EngageMedia dalam menghimpun laporan publik mengenai insiden Akal Imitasi (AI) untuk memahami bagaimana AI berdampak pada masyarakat. Inisiatif ini menghimpun dan menganalisis insiden AI yang berhubungan dengan kepentingan publik serta berdampak pada individu/grup kecil/usaha kecil dan menengah (UMKM). Secara umum, terdapat sebanyak 29 insiden yang diduga diakibatkan karena penerapan AI terjadi sepanjang 2022-2024.
Day 3 of EngageMedia's workshop delved into the latest developments in AI governance globally and policy initiatives in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Day 2 of EngageMedia's workshop on AI governance discussed bias, types of harms, and the need to document AI incidents.
Cinemata Currents 2025 reimagines the virtual film festival as a civic space that resists borders, centers marginalized voices, and fosters collective meaning-making. Curated by the inaugural batch of Cinemata Community Curators in Residence, the program brings together Southeast Asian films that confront repression, displacement, and erasure through the lens of minor cinema.
Day 1 of the workshop on AI governance and accountability focused on the history of the technology and a framework for identifying potential harms at different stages of AI development.
In this Cinemata Features article, filmmaker and human rights campaigner Aghniadi reflects on memory, intergenerational understanding, and the use of film and animation to surface difficult histories. Aghniadi is part of the inaugural Cinemata Community Curator Residency Program.
This is a unique opportunity to shape and scale learning systems that protect and empower grassroots activists working in increasingly hostile digital environments across the region.
ระหว่างวันที่ 5–8 มิถุนายน 2025 เทศกาล Cinemata Currents 2025 จะเชื่อมโยงผู้สร้าง ผู้ฉายและผู้ชมภาพยนตร์จากทั่วเอเชียแปซิฟิกผ่านกิจกรรมแบบผสมผสานทั้งออนไลน์และออฟไลน์ที่หยั่งรากอยู่ในพลังของการจินตนาการร่วมกัน เทศกาลนี้นำเสนอภาพยนตร์ที่ทรงพลัง วงสนทนาสด และเวิร์กช็อปที่ขับเคลื่อนโดยชุมชน ร่วมมองภาพยนตร์ในฐานะเครื่องมือที่ช่วยสะท้อน ต่อต้าน และจินตนาการโลกใหม่ที่อยู่นอกกรอบไปด้วยกัน

Featured Projects

  1. Introducing the DRAPAC series and our upcoming talk on AI adoption and governance
  2. Spotlight on digital rights in Myanmar
  3. New GIF reports and Tech Tales Youth Screening
  1. Chaktomuk Short Film Festival 2023
  2. Video4Change Network Updates, June 2023
  3. Call for submissions: Chaktomuk Short Film Festival 2023
  1. 13th Chaktomuk Short Film Festival Call for Submissions
  2. Derana di Rantau (Languish in Foreign Land)
  3. Behind The Scenes:Visual Essay on Myanmar Journalist Couple at the Frontline Athan