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 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.
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?
The latest edition of Tech Tales Youth showcases powerful stories about digital rights from Malaysia and Bangladesh, produced by young filmmakers.
Cinemata is the exclusive streaming platform for ‘Piyu, I Love You’ 2025, available from February 17 to 24. FEU Film Society’s annual film festival returns with this year’s theme, ‘Love Outside the Box,’ challenging traditional romantic tropes and offering fresh perspectives on love in Filipino cinema.
In Taosin Zafar’s film “The Black Kite,” Arif, a freelancer who relies on crutches, faces a devastating reality when a government-imposed internet shutdown cuts off
[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Cinemata is building a pool of talented Southeast Asia-based developers to contribute to the video platform’s development.
We’re looking for two film curators to develop a film program addressing issues on shrinking civic spaces in the Asia-Pacific.
