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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.
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.
ระหว่างวันที่ 5–8 มิถุนายน 2025 เทศกาล Cinemata Currents 2025 จะเชื่อมโยงผู้สร้าง ผู้ฉายและผู้ชมภาพยนตร์จากทั่วเอเชียแปซิฟิกผ่านกิจกรรมแบบผสมผสานทั้งออนไลน์และออฟไลน์ที่หยั่งรากอยู่ในพลังของการจินตนาการร่วมกัน เทศกาลนี้นำเสนอภาพยนตร์ที่ทรงพลัง วงสนทนาสด และเวิร์กช็อปที่ขับเคลื่อนโดยชุมชน ร่วมมองภาพยนตร์ในฐานะเครื่องมือที่ช่วยสะท้อน ต่อต้าน และจินตนาการโลกใหม่ที่อยู่นอกกรอบไปด้วยกัน
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 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.
