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Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2024 Reviews and Interviews

December 12, 2024
Panos Kotzathanasis
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A summary of all our reviews and interviews for the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2024

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Film Review: Samsara (2024) by Garin Nugroho

Samsara Ario Bayu

The comments about choosing the easy way and ‘selling your soul to the devil” are not exactly unique, but this is definitely not the focus of “”. Instead, by choosing to implement an approach that is filled with tension and energy, deriving from both the combination of traditional and beat music (which actually sounds a lot like industrial) and Dayu Ani’s choreographies, he comes up with an audiovisual extravaganza that makes it very difficult to avert your gaze from the screen even for a second.

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Short Film Review: Fish Balls (2024) by Anwar Johari Ho

Fish Balls image of a topless man with several hands on his face and at his neck

Although definitely not for everyone, and definitely not exactly clear on its comments, “” emerges as a rather captivating short, with the audiovisual and directorial approach to the story and the two protagonists elevating it much above any of its issues.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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