7–11 Oktober 2026 | Jakarta
Metropole XXI / Taman Ismail Marzuki & Ruang Komunitas
Spreading | Healing | Growing
Madani International Film Festival presents films, narratives, and ideas from Muslims as majority and minority, fostering understanding of diverse lives, dreams, and hopes across communities and nurturing brotherhood in diversity.
First held in 2018, Madani is the first festival in Indonesia focused on Muslim society issues. The 9th edition takes place October 7 to 11, 2026 in Jakarta.
Four foundational pillars supporting the festival, drawn from the official MIFF 2026 curatorial documents.
Madani Fest serves as a platform for films, narratives, and ideas concerning issues within the Islamic world. The festival focuses on Islam in everyday life, as experienced by people across all social groups and strata in various parts of the globe.
Madani Fest also serves as a platform for exploring aspects of civilization, namely ethics, knowledge, and the arts, through discussions, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, and art performances.
Madani Fest revitalizes the meaning of madani as "civil order" or "civic life", translations of the concept of civil society. Community activation, citizen engagement, and the strengthening of the civic sphere serve as the festival's ongoing focus.
Madani Fest is a festival of ideas about the city, explored through the activation of space and movement (mobility) rooted in everyday urban life. This connects to the root of the word madani, shared with madina, signifying city and polis.
Since 2022, Madani Fest has welcomed filmmakers worldwide via Film Freeway. Works passing curation are screened during the festival.
Communities, cinema collectives, and civic hubs convening across festival spaces.
Dozens of communities, collectives, and academic partners networked across Jakarta.
Support & Partnerships Organized in partnership with the Provincial Government of DKI Jakarta, Department of Culture, Jakarta Arts Council, JAKPRO, DISPUSIP, and Taman Ismail Marzuki.
