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TAM DokyuFest 2025 returns to Cinemata for its third online run, featuring 16 powerful student documentaries exploring the many faces of truth. Catch the festival online from May 17 to 27 and support the next generation of Filipino storytellers.
From June 5 to 8, Cinemata Currents 2025 gathers filmmakers, organizers, and audiences across the Asia-Pacific for a hybrid film festival rooted in civic imagination. Featuring powerful films, live talkbacks, and community-led workshops, the festival explores how cinema can reflect, resist, and reimagine from the margins.
In this episode of the Pretty Good Podcast Youth Series, Amnesty International regional researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong and Nepali art activist Neha Gauchan unpack the victories and ongoing struggles of LGBTQ+ rights in Thailand and Nepal. From landmark legislation to digital activism, they explore how queer youth are building safer spaces online and pushing for change beyond symbolic wins.
The military junta has continued restricting social media access and disrupting internet and phone connectivity – worsening the situation in Myanmar in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that struck in March 2025.
In this Cinemata Features article, film scholar and curator Patrick F. Campos reflects on regional exchange, collective memory, and his evolving curatorial practice across Southeast Asia. He is also part of the inaugural Cinemata Community Curator Residency Program.
Bangkok's Lumina Film Festival partners with EngageMedia to showcase compelling digital rights stories from young Southeast Asian filmmakers.
EngageMedia will be part of the South and Southeast Asia peer learning circle on AI accountability and governance, to be held from June 25 to 27, 2025.
EngageMedia seeks an experienced web specialist to maintain and optimise the DRAPAC25 website. The ideal candidate will be technically skilled and share our commitment to digital rights and internet freedom.
Young advocates from Taiwan and the Philippines share how they're building solidarity across borders to defend civic space and empower the next generation.
