JIFFest: A feast for movie enthusiasts

JIFFest: A feast for movie enthusiasts

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFFest) is likely to
repeat last year's success and popularity with movie lovers, as
evidenced by the many sold-out films during its opening on
Friday.

"Tickets for 31 films have already sold out," Vashti
Trisnawati Abhidana, the communications director of JIFFest 2001,
told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

People, however, still have a chance to see 13 other films, as
limited seats are available at the box office at the respective
theaters an hour before the show.

The tickets cost Rp 10,000 each.

The organizing committee began selling tickets on Oct. 17. On
the second day, tickets for Jelangkung, an Indonesian horror
movie, were sold out, while tickets for Dancer in the Dark, a
film starring Bjork, were sold out within four days, according to
Vashti.

Other big-name films with tickets still available are Traffic
(Academy Award 2001), Memento, The Circle, Amelie from
Montmartre, Almost Famous and Bread and Tulip.

This year's JIFFest is the third running and will last until
Nov. 10.

"Last year, after the festival was over I was almost sick
because every night I always went out to see the movies. And now,
I surely want to see as many movies as I can," Joseph, a movie
buff, told the Post as he got ready to watch Deep End at the
PPHUI film center.

JIFFest 2001 will screen about 100 films from some 30
countries at the Djakarta Theater, TIM, the PPHUI film center,
the Goethe Institute, Erasmus Huis and the Jakarta Arts
Institute.

There will be 28 Indonesian films screened at the festival,
picturing the country from the 1930s to the present.

For more information, please call (021) 325-113 or 325-115 or
visit www.jiffest.com.