Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto

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Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto (born 1999) is an Indonesian film director. [1] She is most noted for her short film Sawo Matang , which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2023. [2]

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She made a number of student films prior to debuting her short film Srikandi at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. [1] Later the same year she released Brown Enough, a short documentary film co-directed with Kent Donguines.

In 2022 she released Shallots and Garlic (Bawang Merah Bawang Putih), which utilized the body horror genre to tell a story about a young woman with an eating disorder. [3]

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