REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- The German Film Festival 2014 in Indonesia is being organized in nine cities and will screen leading German movies, Head of Culture Programs of German Cultural Center Goethe Institute Katrin Sohns stated here on Thursday.
"The nine cities are Jakarta, Bandung (West Java), Surabaya (East Java), Banda Aceh, Yogyakarta, Palu (Central Sulawesi), Balikpapan (East Kalimantan), Makassar (South Sulawesi), and Denpasar (Bali)," she remarked.
She noted that the annual festival in Indonesia has been held since 2012, and this year it will be the third time.
In Bali, the festival is taking place in Gianyar, on August 28-30, 2014.
The festival will screen nine of the 14 best German movies of 2014. The movie screening is open to the public and is free of charge.
In addition to film screenings, a workshop by German director Nol Dernesch for documentary filmmakers was also organized, Sohns pointed out.
The documentary film workshop was attended by 30 young Balinese filmmakers.
Nol Dernesch was born in Zurich in 1977, and is now living and working as a film director in Berlin, Germany.
He has made several short films and documentaries, including "Journey to Jah" that was launched in 2014 and is now working on his first feature film.
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