Indonesian Film Festival New York 2026 begins Friday, November 6 through Saturday, November 7, 2026.

The festival showcases the best of Indonesian cinema, opening at SVA Theatre (11/6) with an opening night presentation of Pangku / On Your Lap at 5:30PM, a story about a mother’s resilience on the north coast of Java directed by Reza Rahadian and winner of the 2025 Best Feature Film at the Citra Awards, Indonesia’s equivalent to the Oscars.

Followed by the opening night feature, there will be a shorts program featuring Indonesian-American shorts productions, entailing the films Home, Almost; Soul Trip; Something Good Going On; Quantum Entanglement; and The Sea Between Us; at 8:00PM.

Day 2 (11/7) of the festival begins at Anthology Film Archives with our documentary presentation A Distorted Individual; a hybrid documentary-performance featuring underground South Jakarta musician Individual Distortion, directed by Adythia Utama, screening at 2:00PM.

The festival concludes with our closing night selection Komang, a love story between cultures, directed by Naya Anindita and starring Aurora Ribero and Adzando Davema. Komang will be screening at 4:00PM.