A Decade JiFFest

The film is the arena of expression and media reflection from threaded sequence of stories is poured in a script. By watching movies, everyone can be sad, laugh, fear, or anger. In addition to music, movies often selected as part of the lifestyle of the community.

For those who want the actual crowd in each, they always follow each new movie titles that played in theaters. No lag, information, gossip about the actors or the stage of the actor.

Currently, not only films imported liked many communities, local films are not lost many operation. As in the Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest) 2008, held the 5 - and 9 December 2008.

"Not a few people are enthusiastic with the films in the local Jiffest this time," said Director of JiFFest 2008, and Roisamry. JiFFest 2008 alone play several national titles and playing the film's first (premier) some local movies.

Not only as an arena of screening merely, JiFFest 2008 also opened a Long Story Competition Film Indonesia (Indonesian Feature Film Competition). In the competition are chosen Indonesia for Best Film and Best Director of Indonesian films released from October 2007 until September 2008.

From the 84 films released in this period, JiFFest has conducted preliminary selection and select the 10 films eligible to enter the competition. Films are: Fiction, Get Married, In the Name of Love, Borrowed, LOVERS, May, They says I Monkey!, Women's Own Story, Quickie Express and Radit & snopi.

Then, JiFFest 2008 also play movies that Indonesia played as the English Gala Premieres, such as: Drupadi (short film works with Riri Riza star Nicholas Saputra and real), documentary betting (on the life of the woman who is intelligent, diproduseri by Nia Dinata and made by five young director, namely anti-Ema Susanti, Iwan Setiawan & M. Ichsan, Lucky KUSWANDI, Ucu Agustin), Garin Nugroho, the latest movies Under the Tree (Under the Tree), which starred Marcella Zalianty, Nadia Shapira and Dwi Sasono .

As part of a "celebration" of this, JiFFest also present "The 10 Years of Indian Film Revival," a program that plays Top 10 movies Indonesia during the last ten years. To enter this category, a movie must bring at least 1.3 million spectators in the cinema! Films that enter this category, among others: a lot!, Jelangkung, With Love Is There?, Eiffel ... I'm in Love!, What is the meaning of Love? Artist of Love, Get Married, nature, Quikie Express, and Borrowed Pelangi.

JiFFest 2008
The playing arena of films, international tenth time this has been implemented. During the decade, JiFFest become one of the cultural events, international success to survive in Indonesia.

More than 100 films from 24 countries played this year. Screening at the Platinum FX XXI, Blitz Megaplex Grand Indonesia, the cultural centers such as the Erasmus Huis, Kineforum TEAM, TEAM Gallery Cipta, GoetheHaus, the Institute Italiano di Cultura, and The Japan Foundation.

Since the first held in 1999 until now, JiFFest always get a positive response from movie lovers in and outside the country. With the average number of spectators between 50 - 60 thousand during the last 3 years. Since 2006, JiFFest has also become the largest international film festival in Southeast Asia in the number of spectators. Far capacity spectators passing through the international film festival in Bangkok, Singapore and Manila.

However, the global economic crisis of late JiFFest forced to reduce the scale of the event for the festival, JiFFest itself. From the 10-day maintenance, reduced to 5 days. This is forced to do so with all the limitations that exist, JiFFest can continue to attend a cultural agenda of the annual Singapore and Indonesia.

Still, JiFFest still continue to be the arena spectacle film world's largest in Indonesia, and more important, JiFFest become part of the world's film Indonesia. When JiFFest new start, less than 10 U.S. movies released each year, but now, nearly 100 movies Indonesia has been and will be released until December 2008.
Contrast campaign in JiFFest

This year, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence ACTION (Contrast) take part in the JiFFest 2008. With the theme "Human Human Loves," as a social campaign, to prevent Contrast attempted violence and human rights violations.
How, to provide inspiration for every human to love each other. Dont care on the other, injustice on the weak, can be converted into a sense of grace and appreciation of each human being. "The idea is when the actual anniversary Contrast years ago. We want to fight through the medium of ethics, such as movies, which can then be inspiring, "said Usman Hamid Contrast to represent.

Coinciding with the 60 years the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Human Loves Human appropriate in some movies that will be played at JiFFest. Films are: The Day After Peace, Donkey In Lahore, Eve & the Fire Horse, Up The Yangtze, and Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden.

Love in "Human Loves Human" may perceive it as the expression of love human love. "It is not wrong, that we would spreading love is a broad, inter-human and other living beings," said Usman.

History proves human, human greed and hatred make human suffering and destruction of natural highway, including global warming, which ultimately aggravate the lives of human beings and other life.

The film and Closing
The entire series of films in JiFFest opened with a Gala Opening the show opening film, Burn After Reading, the latest comedy works Best Director Academy Awards this year Joel and Ethan Coen, the show stars George Clooney on board, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand.

While the film Closing the end of this year's JiFFest is Vicky Cristina Barcelona who the work of Woody Allen. With stars Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, plus the natural scenery of Barcelona, this movie penontonnya bring to a cloudless atmosphere and fun.

"This year, JiFFest 2008 purchasing more than about 28 thousand people from 138 movie titles played," said Then, when the night was closing in Blitz Megaplex.
Along with that, also announced the winners of the movie script, film director and best film version of best JiFFest.