Makbul Mubarak is an Indonesian
filmmaker based in Jakarta. He graduated
from the film department of Korea
National University of Arts. He directed
several short films before embarking
on his first feature film, Autobiography,
produced by Jakarta-based company
KawanKawan Media in co-production
with France, Singapore, Poland, Germany,
the Philippines and Qatar. Autobiography
premiered in Venice Orizzonti 2022 where
it received the FIPRESCI Prize. Since
then, Autobiography has travelled to
numerous festivals such as Toronto, BFI
London, Marrakech, New Directors/New
Films, Busan, Karlovy Vary, etc and received
19 awards worldwide, including awards for
best film at festivals such as Tokyo FILMeX,
Adelaide FF, Singapore FF and others, well as
a prize for best first feature film at Stockholm
Film Festival 2022. He is currently developing
his second feature Watch it Burn, at TFL
ScriptLab and presented at Busan FF’s Asian
Project Market 2023.