Kamila Andini

Kamila Andini
Andini, 2018
Born	(1986-05-06) 6 May 1986 (age 38) Jakarta, Indonesia
Citizenship	Indonesian
Alma mater	Deakin University
Occupation	Director
Notable work	The Mirror Never Lies
Spouse	Ifa Isfansyah
Parent	Garin Nugroho

Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known for her critically acclaimed debut, The Mirror Never Lies.

Andini was born on 6 May 1986 and is the eldest daughter of filmmaker Garin Nugroho.^[1] Although uninterested in cinematography for fear that she would be "work[ing] in her father's shadow",^[2] she began studying photography while still in junior high school, hoping to "capture people's life and behavior".^[1] While in senior high school her classmates often asked her father about film making, questions which Andini later said "ashamed" her because she knew nothing of her father's oeuvre.^[1] She later began to become involved with several film committees. Andini completed a degree in sociology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.^[1]

Upon her return to Indonesia, Andini began to work as a director. She handled music videos for groups such as Ungu and Slank, as well as documentaries on music and the ocean.^[1] One of these, Lagu untuk Tukik (A Song for Tukik), dealt with turtles in the ocean in the Wakatobi Regency – part of the Coral Triangle – and was screened as part of the Goethe Institute's Science Film Festival in 2012.^[3] In 2009 she assisted her father in directing Generasi Biru (The Blue Generation), about the band Slank.^[4]

Andini began production of her first feature film, The Mirror Never Lies, in 2009. The work took over two years of research^[1] and two months of filming to complete,^[5] owing to a lack of documentary evidence on the Bajau who are central to the film's narrative.^[1] Co-produced by Andini's father and former Miss Indonesia Nadine Chandrawinata and starring Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza Rahadian, and Gita Novalista, the film was based on a young Bajau girl who uses mirrors to try to find her lost father.^[6] It received numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including a Best Director nomination at the 2011 Indonesian Film Festival (IFF) before winning in the same category at the 2012's Bandung Film Festival.^[7]

In May 2012 she started working on her second feature film, to be about children and nature.^[8] This became The Seen and Unseen (2017), a critically acclaimed work about young Balinese twins, one of whom is dying.^[9] It won the Adelaide Film Festival's Feature Fiction Award in 2019.^[10]

Her 2021 film Yuni premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival where it won the Platform Prize.^[11][12] In 2022 Andini's fourth feature film Before, Now & Then had its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.^[13]

In 2023 she explored Indonesia's social history through her Netflix original series Cigarette Girl. The story is set within Indonesia's tobacco industry and was directed alongside her partner Ifa Isfansyah.^[14]

In March 2012 Andini married fellow director Ifa Isfansyah.^[15] The two fell in love with each other after Isfansyah's 2011 film Sang Penari (The Dancer) had provided stiff competition to Andini's The Mirror Never Lies at the IFF.^[16]

• Kamila Andini at IMDb