How Indonesia’s New Film Agency Chief Plans to Turn Local Box Office Dominance Into Global Presence

May 15, 2026 1:31am PT How Indonesia’s New Film Agency Chief Plans to Turn Local Box Office Dominance Into Global Presence

By Naman Ramachandran

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Fauzan Zidni is at Cannes this year as the newly elected chair of the Indonesian Film Agency (BPI) with a program already in Critics’ Week and the agency making its first institutional appearance at the festival.

“Next Step Studio Indonesia” — four short films by Indonesian directors made alongside peers from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Myanmar and produced by Yulia Evina Bhara and Amerta Kusuma at KawanKawan Media and co-produced by Dominique Welinski, the program’s originator and curator — premieres at Critics’ Week. It is the first Cannes project drawn entirely from Indonesian financing .

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