Indonesia

• Review

  Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

  A refreshing throwback to 1980s kung-fu cinema with a socially conscious subtext…

  
• News

  Discover rarely seen queer cinema at Queer East Film Festival

  Queer films from East and Southeast Asia will be screened in cinemas across London, from 15 to 26 September…

• News

  Asian films screening at TIFF 2021

  A preview of all the Asian films screening at the 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival…

• Interview

  Cornelio Sunny talks Death Knot and new directions in horror

  Exploring Indonesian horror with a unique debut film…

• Review

  Death Knot

  City dwellers travel to the countryside and fall foul of black magic in this familiar Indonesian horror…

  
• News

  Udine FEFF23 unveils packed programme for online and in-cinema audiences

  The upcoming FEFF will take place at Udine and online from 24 June to 2 July…

• Review

  Satan’s Slave

  The original Indonesian horror classic, recently remade by Joko Anwar…

  
• Review

  The Queen of Black Magic (1981)

  The original Indonesian black magic classic, recently remade by Kimo Stamboel…

  
• Interview

  Kimo Stamboel interview: “Joko and me were friends, but this was the...

  The director chats about The Queen of Black Magic and the popularity of Indonesian folk horror…

• Review

  May the Devil Take You Too

  Timo Tjahjanto follows up his 2018 horror hit with more creepy curses and Evil Dead-style shenanigans…

  
• Review

  The Queen of Black Magic

  A group of men return to the orphanage where they grew up and fall foul of a particularly nasty curse…

  
• News

  10 Asian films to watch at the 2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam...

  The winter edition programme reveals 3 Asian debuts in the Tiger Competition, cutting-edge short films and new works of emerging filmmakers…

• Feature

  The Top 10 Asian Films of 2020

  James Mudge chooses his favourite films of the last twelve months from around Asia…

• News

  Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF) announces full line-up

  The upcoming film festival will take place from 4 to 10 December…

• News

  Overview of 14th Flavours Asian Film Festival line-up vol. 1

  From 25 November to 6 December Five Flavours returns in a completely revised version to live up to the challenges of the times…

• Review

  Impetigore

  Joko Anwar delivers eerie atmosphere and decent scares…

  
• Review

  The Queen of Black Magic

  Kimo Stamboel directs this treat for daring horror fans, a revisit of an Indonesian classic which works best the bloodier it gets…