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Reflecting on Cinemata Currents 2025: Stories in Motion, Conversations Across Borders

Jen Tarnate 18/07/2025

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.

Intan leads a workshop co-organised by Architects of Diveristy

“We are humans first before we are usernames.” An Interview with Filmmaker Intan Sakinah

Guest Writer 16/06/2025

For filmmaker Intan Sakinah, stories hold the power to unravel prejudice. Her film A Jar of Light (Balang Terang), part of Tech Tales Youth 2, takes a critical look at how racial bias spreads in digital spaces and its tangible consequences in the real world.

Cinemata Currents 2025: Defending Civic Spaces through Minor Cinemas in Southeast Asia

Jen Tarnate 27/05/2025

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.

Cinemata Features: Aghniadi

Jen Tarnate 21/05/2025

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.

TAM DokyuFest returns to Cinemata for its third online run

Jen Tarnate 19/05/2025

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.

Cinemata Currents 2025: A Hybrid Film Festival of Shared Viewing and Civic Imagination

Jen Tarnate 16/05/2025

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.

Cinemata Features: Patrick F. Campos

Jen Tarnate 06/05/2025

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.

Lumina Film Festival Partners with EngageMedia to Showcase Digital Rights Films from Southeast Asia

King Catoy 05/05/2025

Bangkok’s Lumina Film Festival partners with EngageMedia to showcase compelling digital rights stories from young Southeast Asian filmmakers.

Society, Secrets, and Silence: Digital Literacy in a Deceptive World

Guest Writer 28/03/2025

One hour is all it takes—that’s how little time it takes for a predator to infiltrate a child’s world. Social media becomes a tool for manipulation, a window into the lives of the vulnerable. But the question that remains unanswered—or perhaps one that many lack the courage to confront—is this: How do we start a conversation about something shrouded in silence while the very idea of grooming, sexual harassment, and child exploitation is still considered taboo4 in Malaysia?

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