Sidi Saleh (born April 5, 1979) is an Indonesian film director, who
was also a film producer of Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly, a film that
had been presented in Rotterdam Film Festival, Busan, Tokyo and also
in several other film festival selections. He was also a
cinematographer of Postcard From The Zoo, (Indonesian First Feature
Film Competing at The Berlinale Film Festival), cinematographer of
D’bijis, Kara Anak Sebatang Pohon (CannesDirector's Forthnight),
Yokudo/Taksu (Japan), This Longing (Malaysia).Sidi Saleh first entered
the film industry in the early 2000s, not long after graduating from
Jakarta Institute of Arts, to pursue a career path as a
cinematographer, the path he chose since he is already accustomed to
working with a camera (his father used to work in the field of wedding
video documentation).In his early days as a cinematographer, Sidi got
involved in several film productions, Kara, Anak Sebatang Pohon, Blind
Pig Who Wants To Fly (also worked as the film producer), and Kebun
Binatang (International title: Postcards from the Zoo). Kara, Anak
Sebatang Pohon won an award as The Best Short Film in the 2005
Indonesian Film Festival. Furthermore, it also became the only
Indonesian film passed the Director's Fortnight (Quinzaine des
Réalisateurs) selection at Cannes Film Festival in the same year. In
addition to the above achievement, Blind Pig who Wants to Fly also won
a prestigious award from FIPRESCI at the International Film Festival
Rotterdam in 2009 while Postcard From The Zoo competed in the main
competition at Berlinale Film Festival in 2012.Sidi's directorial
debut began in 2011 with Full Moon, one of the segments in the film
titled Belkibolang. Other films he directed, Fitri, included in the
International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand in 2014. His hard
toil wasn't for nothing as Maryam, a carefully crafted story of a
Muslim stuck in the ritual of another religion with someone who has
autism while she is experiencing a difficult inner pressure herself,
won Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film in The Venice Film Festival or
Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte
Cinematografica della Biennale Venezia, "International Exhibition of
Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale"), founded in 1932 by
Giuseppe Volpi. This is the oldest film festival in the world and one
of the "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Cannes Film Festival
and Berlin International Film Festival and he became the first
Indonesian film maker ever winning an award from one of the
prestigious and the oldest film festivals in Europe. Sidi Saleh Top Movies & Young Movies