ReelOzInd! Australia Indonesia Short Film Competition and Festival

Celebrating 10 years of coming together The 2026 Jury brings together Indonesian and Australian leaders from film, the creative arts and storytelling. We are especially excited to welcome back Indonesian filmmaker, Riri Riza, who was a member of the inaugural ReelOzInd!

Melbourne-based Indonesian filmmaker takes out ReelOzInd! Best Film Award for 2025 Thata Debora Agnessia The first images in this tender film are of a father tidying up books, old boxes and brushing dust from a forgotten corner.

Winning Films Showcase Excellence in Filmmaking and Storytelling ReelOzInd! Festival Premieres were held in Melbourne and Yogyakarta on 23 October, announcing the winning films from each of the competition categories.

The shortlist for ReelOzInd! 2025 features 24 short films by filmmakers from across Australia and Indonesia.

We are excited and honoured to announce our Jury for 2025, which once again includes Australians and Indonesians with world class expertise across the fields of film, television, dance and literature. We are especially proud to acknowledge and thank Novi Kurnia and Andrew Mason who were both members of our inaugural Jury in 2016, and […]

ReelOzInd! returns in a milestone year with the theme imajinasi In 2015, the Australia-Indonesia Centre invited a group of people passionate about strengthening ties between our two nations to imagine new ways of connecting our cultures and sharing our stories.

Exploring what it means to be a woman in Indonesia is the focus of Superia, the short film that won Best Documentary and Best Film at ReelOzInd! 2024.

Mulawarman University (UNMUL) in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, will host the Indonesian premiere of the ReelOzInd! Film Festival on 24 October.

Celebrating its 9th iteration, the festival’s Indonesian premiere will be held outside Java for the first time ReelOzInd! 2024 will premiere in simultaneous screenings in Melbourne at ACMI and in Samarinda, at Universitas Mulawarman on 24 October.