Fikri Al Murtaky

The Quiet Beside Me

In the pages of a farmer's handwritten journal, the fracture of a village comes into view. At the foot of Mount Gede, the expansion of a geothermal project tears into land considered sacred, seizing ground its people have worked for generations. Grassroots resistance slowly decays into suspicion between neighbours, until residents themselves are driven to a boiling point of helplessness. Following the ink trail and personal archive of farmer-activist Cece Jaelani, On the Verge of Seething traces how collective rage hardens into an inherited fate, culminating in an ancient act: residents pleading for the mountain itself to erupt.

Barisan Jiwa Doraka reveals the reality of bajidoran dancers within contemporary art by reinterpreting and reworking the male gaze as a critique of cultural norms and the roots of harassment that haunt artistic spaces. This documentary is an effort to preserve identity and resist objectification on stage by exposing the phenomena experienced by bajidoran dancers.

Serani (20) lives among a land that cultivates silence and patience, where time never truly moves forward, it only loops, repeating events that keep knocking in different faces. When truth is seen as a disturbance, and silence is praised as virtue, Serani drifts between those who stay quiet and those who know. Her voice slowly loses its form.

Menyulam Lobang departs from the story of a mother who is forced to leave her bamboo stilt house and move into a concrete structure. This personal transition becomes a reflection on the paradox of modernity, where human development reshapes the earth to sustain comfort like embroidering the abyss . Through fragments of 35mm imagery, the film explores material fragility, time, and memory, suggesting that every structure we build carries traces of loss and unseen damage.