Gayatri Nadya Paramytha

Gayatri Nadya Paramytha is an independent curator based in Jakarta, Indonesia and woarks at Jakarta Film Week as industry head.

Gayatri Nadya Paramytha participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Gayatri Nadya Paramytha’s submission:

Interesting take to deep dive into some period of time in Southeast Asia region where up until now the struggles are still here.

— Gayatri Nadya Paramytha
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Dajang Soembi, the Woman Who Was Married to a Dog Dajang Soembi: perempoean jang dikawini andjing Edwin Indonesia 2004 7’

Edwin brought the folktale of Javanese with female protagonist that owned her own body and decision. This Mix media short also create experience on how audience can archive as the memories or the myth.

27 Flóra Anna Buda France, Hungary 2023 11’

Embracing body with noise of the city and fantasy. This animation become playful with colour as part of the distortion yet the imagination that brings blurred lines between life and the longing.

Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month Carlo Francisco Manatad Philippines 2017 13’

Working class, is the key person to set the society on fire #punintended

Death of the Sound Man Sorayos Prapapan Thailand 2017 16’

The life and livelyhood of filmmaker. Who's gonna be the one to take care of it yet laugh about it?  They only have themselves to survive.