Films by Joo Peter – Festival Participations and Awards
Mentawai – Souls of the Forest
Feature Documentary Film
supported by Film Fund MFG (Award report)
Awards
Balinale – International Film Festival Bali Juni 2022
(World Premiere – National Premiere) 56 Min Version
Mount Everest Award – Best Documentary – International Competition
International Film Festival Nepal, Kathmandu March/April 2023
(International Premiere) 74 Min Version
Winner – Asians Best Feature Documentary Film – International Competition
Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival, Mexiko April/May 2023
Winner – Best Documentary Film – International Competition
International Film Festival Druk, Bhutan, Himalaya 2023
Winner – Best Documentary Feauture Film
High Tatras International Film Festival, Slowakia, August 2023, pdf
Winner – Best Documentary Feature Film
Palanque International Film Festival, Chiapas, Mexico, 2023
Winner – Best Documentary Sound – International Competition
FICIMAD Film Festival Madrid, Spain March 2023, Festival-Magazine
Honoroble Mention Award for Feature Documentary
Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental IV Edición,FICAA, Mexico,2023
Winner – Camera Award Best Color
Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental IV Edición,FICAA, Mexico,2023
Winner – Best Documentary Film – International Competition
Indogma International Film Festival, Faridabad, Haryana, India, December 13 to 17th 2023
#1 Finalist category tribal focus in documentary film, Vindhya Int. Film Festival, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2024
Winner – Best Feature Documentary Film – Debut Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival, Mexico, 2024
Winner – Best Feature Documentary Film, International Competition, Imperial Inka International Film Festival, Lima, Peru, May 2024
Master of Storytelling Award on the occasion of 5th Anniversary of International Film Festival Druk, Bhutan, Himalaya 2024
Winner – Commitment Award – Prix de l’Engagement, Festival International Ecologique et Social, Cannes, France July 2024
Special Jury Award, Kalimantan International Indigenous Film Festival. August 22nd to 24th 2034, Palangka Raya, Kalimantan Borneo, Indonesia
“Ojo de Dios” Award of Recognition, International Film Festival EthnoKino in Bern , Switzerland, October 5th 2024
Official Selection Chronology
Balinale – International Film Festival Bali June 2022 (56 min version) AWARD
International Film Festival Nepal NIFF, Kathmandu March/April 2023 (74Min) AWARD
Liberation Doc Festival Bangladesh, March 2023
International Film Festival Transcending Borders, Paris, France 2023
International Film Festival Druk, Buthan, Himalaya 2023 AWARD
FICIMAD Film Festival Madrid, Spain March 2023 AWARD
Cannes Film Awards, April 29th, 2023
Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival, Mexiko April/Mai 2023 AWARD
FESCUSCA 7th San Antonio Independant Film Festival, Ecuador, March 2023
Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec, Kanada, May 20th 2023
12th International Cambodian Film Festival May 30th June 4th 2023
Babul Eco Film Festival Hyderabad, India June 1st, 2023
Blue Water Film Festival, San Diego, California, June 8th to 11th 2023
7th Portoviejo Film Festival Ecuadaor, June 8th to 11th 9th
Wairoa Maori Film Festival, Nuhaka, New Zealand 2023, postponed
Montevideo Film Festival Uruguay, July 7th to July 9th 2023
Naturvision Filmfestival Ludwigsburg, Juli 21stto 23rd 2023
International Ethnographic Film Festival Ilinden Days, Macedonia, July 18th-23rd 2023
Green Montenegro International Film Festival July 29th to 31st, 2023
Supbatdeul Mountain Village Film Festival for Co-Existance and Equality, South Korea, August 23rd to 27th 2023
Tatras International Film Festival, Slowakia, August 31st, 2023 AWARD
El Festival Ecuatoriano Turicine (FECT) Quito Ecuador, Sept 7th to 17th 2023 (Finalist)
El Cine Suma Paz Film Festival of Environmental Culture and Culture of Peace, Colombia, September 2023
Palanque International Film Festival, Chiapa, Palenque Site Museum Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, Carretera Zona Arqueológica Maya)
KKIFF Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo, September 23rd to October 1st, 2023
Dili International Film Festival (DIFF), Timor Leste, Palapasu, Sept. 28th to October 16th, 2023
California Capital International Documentary Film Festival in Sacramento, California, USA, Sep 29th to Oct 1st 2023
InkaFest Mountain Film Festival, Arequipa, Peru, October 16t to 22nd, 2023
El Festival de Cine Independiente de Sogamoso – FECISO, Colombia, 25th to 31st October 2023
Green Screen International Environmental Film Festival, Trinidad, Tobago, November 2nd, 2023
El Ojo Cojo – International Film Festival in Madrid, Spain November 4th 2023
Festival International du Film Amazigh d’Agadir (FINIFA), Marocco, 7th to 11th December 2023, Festival Magazin
Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental, FICAA Ciudad de México, December 8th 2023 AWARD
Indogma International Film Festival, Faridabad, Haryana, India, December 13th to 17th 2023 AWARD
Korea International Etnographic Film Festival (KIEFF) Seoul, 28-29 December 2023
Vindhya International Film Festival in Madhya Pradesh, India, January 5th to 7th 2024
Caribbean Sea International Film Festival in Venezuela, January 19th – 21st 2024
EthnograFilms Paris, France, 2024
The Human Environment Care Film Festival (HECFF), Toronto, Canada’, February 10th to 11th 2024
15th International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest, KLEFF, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, February 17th-18th, 2024
Chennai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Tamil Nadu, India, February 20th to 29th, 2024
Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival, April 4th to 7th 2024, Puerto Aventura, Mexico AWARD
Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) Lagos, Nigeria, April 22nd, 2024
Festival de Cine Amazonía del Plata, Museo de la Reconquista, Argentina, April 2024
Imperial Inka International Film Festival, Lima, Peru, May 2024, AWARD
Festival Internacional de Cinema de Santarém, Portugal, May 15th to 19th 2024
Jakarta International Film Festival Kinosuite, Jakarta Indonesia, May 31st to June 1st, 2024
FIFES – Festival International Film Ecologique social, Cannes, France, June 1st, AWARD
Indigenous Film Festival Kalimantan, Ranu Welum Foundation, Palangka Raya, Indonesia, August 2024, AWARD
Film Festival on Ecology and Social Justice, University for English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India on 2-4 September, AWARD
Festival International de Cine de la No-Violencia Activa (FICNOVA) held in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, October 2024
EthnoKino Film Festival Bern, Switzerland, October 3 to 6, 2024, AWARD, Q & A
New Vision of Earth International Film Festival – United Nations partner GLF Film Festival ( Global Landscape Forum ) at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium and alongside the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP16) of the United Nation in Cali, Colombia. October 21 to November 1, 2024
International Multicultural Film Festival, Perth, Australia, October 19 to November 23, 2024
EthnoKino Film Festival Marrakech, Morocco, December 13 to 15, 2024
Ecoframes Environmental Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece, June to September 2025
International Science Film Festival, Thrissur, Kerala, India, 8-10 August 2025
Ecology Film Festival, Agaram Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, June 20 to 22, 2025
The Taraba Human Rights International Film Festival (TAHRIFF) in Abuja, Nigeria, August -September 2025
Festival Film Market Invitations
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland 2023
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2023
Mentawai Trailer – Official Selection
Biophilia Film Festival Mexico 2021
Kalimantan International Indigenous Film Festival, Indonesia 2021
8th edition Goa Short Film Festival 2021
Films for the Forest, Austin, Texas, USA, 2022
Special Screening
International Indigenous Film Festival Bali, Indonesien (Preview)
Ruang Tamu Eco System & Pangrok Sulap in Kinabalu, Sabah (Borneo) Malaysia November 2023
Konferensi ICIR (Intersectoral Collaboration for Indigenous Religions), Ambon, Indonesia, October 23rd to 24th 2024
3rd Annual Conference of Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Business (ACSTHB), October 22nd 2024
Films for Future, Zurich Switzerland, Impact Hub, May 23rd 2023
Kinobar Prager Frühling, Leipzig, 2023
Apollo Kino, Ungarn, 2024
Photo Exhibitions
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna by Borneo Orangutan Survival Switzerland (BOS Switzerland)Vienna, Austria, 2025
Trailer
Migration in Transit. International Film Festival Lima, Peru, August 2025
KKIEFF, Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival,Malaysia, August 2025
Golden Grape International Short Film Festival, Telavi, Georgia, Augst 2025
Indigenous Culture Short Film Festival, INCUFF, Yerel Kültür Film Festvali, city Denizli, Turkey Oktober 2025
Entretodos, 18º Festival Entretodos de Filmes Curtos e Direitos Humanos, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, September to October 2025
Special Sreenings
Rang Tamu Ekosistem Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Borneo, August 10th 2025
Paradiso Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, September 10th, 2025
Review Asian Review of Books
short film Malaysia 2021
Award Winner – Best Documentary Short Film
Vindhya International Film Festival Madhya Pradesh 2021
Uruvatti International Film Festival, India 2021
Aiyan Film Awards, India 2021
Golden Eagle Film Festival, South Tamil Nadu India 2021
FICIMAD Film Festival Madrid, Micro Short Documentary 2022 Festival Magazine
Gold Medal – South East Asia Short Film Festival Phnom Phen Cambodia 2022
Niitin International Film Festival Malaysia, 2023 , Penang 2023
Navy International Film Festival, Penang, Malaysia, 2023
Verghiano Film Festival, Sicily, Italy, August 20th, 2023
Award Winner Bronze
One Earth Film Festival, India , Best Documentary Short Film 2021
Special Jury Award
Golden Leaf International Film Festival India 2021
Indo-Singapore Film Festival 2021
Golden Eagle Film Festival, South Tamil Nadu India 2021
Intimalente – Festival di film etnografici, la XIII edizione 2022, Premio Doc Scuola
Special Mention Award
Cambodia Independent Film Festival 2021
Official Selection
Short to the Point Film Festival Bucarest 2022
Muestra Intergaláctica de Cine, Mexico 2021
Bahia International Film Festival, Brazil 2021
Festival di Cinema de Cefalù, Italy 2021
Kerala Short Film Festival, India 2021
Golden Short Film, Rome, Italy 2021
Paradise Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary 2021
Rome Prisma Awards, Italy 2021
International Multicultural Film Festival Melbourne 2022
KKIFF Kinabalu Malaysia Sabah, Borneo 2022
7th Jaipur Film World Festival 2023
Metropolis Film Festival, Milano, Italy, 2023
Origen – VII Festival Audiovisual Internacional, Granada, Spain 17th to 20th August 2023
New Generations Independant Indian Film Festival, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2023
No Words – International Film Festival, Ptolemeida, Greece, 23 December 2023
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra Australia, November 11th 2023
Video Poetry Film Festival, Institute for Experimental Art, Athens, Greece, April 19th-20th, 2024
Cinemistica Festival ‘2024 Mitos, Ritos y Cotidianidad’, 10th edition, Granada, Spain 7th-24th November 2024
Amarcort Film Festival dedicated to Fellini in Rimini, Italy, December 3rd to 8th, 2024
Special Screening
Indigenous Film Festival Bali
Pasola – battle on holy ground
short film, Sumba, Indonesia 2021/22
Award Winner
Best Documentary Short Film – International Film Festival of Andaman and Nicobar (IFFAN) 2021
Gold Winner – Toyko Film Awards – Short Documentary 2022
Best Documentary Short Film Uruvatti International Film Festival, India 2022
Best Documentary Short Film, Budapest Film Festival 2023
Best Trailer
FICIMAD Film Festival Madrid 2021 Festival Magazine
Finalist
Lisbon Film Rendevouz, Portugal 2021
Madeira Curtas, Portugal, June 16th 2023
Official Selection
Asia South East-Short Film Festival 2021 (WWCSF)
Goethe Center Meta House Phnom Phen, Cambodia January 8th 2021
Corti di Mare, Italy 2021
Festival Mundial de Cine Veracruz, Mexico 2021
One Earth Awards, India 2022
Dili International Film Festival East Timor 2022
Short Cut Film Festival, Belgrad, Serbia, August 25th – September 6th, 2023
Marmostra Film Festival, Portugal, Praya da Toca, 21st-23rd July 2023
Festival del Cinema di Cefalú, Sicily, Italy 2023
Special Screening
Indigenous Film Festival Bali
short film
AI Film Festival, Utah, USA, May 2023
Experimental Brasil Rio de Janeiro July 9th-10th 2023
INQRVENTION Barcelona, Spain 2023
Bizarrya Film Festival, Porto, Portugal 2023 (Finalist)
Art Film Awards, Skopje, Macedonia 2023 (Finalist)
Shapeshift Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria June 2nd to June 4th, 2023
BAIFF (Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival) October 10th to 15th, 2023 in Burano, Venezia, Italy 2023
Anima Cinefest Hamilton New York October 18th, 2023
Short Cut Film Festival, Belgrad, Serbia, August 25th to September 6th 2023
Grenzen der Aufklärung, Galerie Oberwelt, Gruppenausstellung, Stuttgart, Germany September 15th to 30th 2023
International Short Film Festival Monstrale , Halle an der Saale, Germany, October 9th to 15th 2023
NarrarElFuturo: X Festival de Cine & Nuevos Medios, Bogota Colombia September 5th to 10th 2023
UltraCinema, Tijuana, Mexicali, Mexico, October 14th to 22nd, 2023
UltraCinema, Ciudad de México, Xalapa, Puebla, Oaxaca, Mexico October 23rd to 29th 2023
Goethe Institute Jakarta, Conference on AI, October 2023
Make Art not Fear, International Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, October 5th to 12th 2023
GENERIcamente HUMANI – Human Rights Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy, October 10th, 2023
Ros Film Festival, El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura, Elche, Spain, November 12th to 21st, 2023
Knowmad Short Film Festival (KSFF), European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Sciences, December 5th
International Alternative Media Film Festival (FICMA) , Mexico City, 18th to 26th December
SCIFF – Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Laemmle Theaters, Los Angeles California, USA, December 7th to 1th 2023
Life, the Universe and Everything -Film Festival, Provo, Utah, USA, February 16th 2024
Benson Film Festival, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, April 26th to 28th, 2024
Hiroshima Animation Season, Japan, August 2024, Academy Award qualifying Festival
Oned — Art/Experimental Film Festival, Beijing, China, August 30th to September 1st 2024
Nomad 2024 – The Infinite Sky, Central Asia School of Arts and Sciences, Naryn, Kyrgystan, 19th – 21st September 2024
Pebbles Underground Film & Video Art Festival, Toronto Canada and London, UK, December 15th to 21st, 2024
Oned — Art/Experimental Film Festival, Toulouse, France, March 25th 2025