About Me
Aretha Iskandar is a French-Indonesian filmmaker based in Paris. She crafts emotionally charged, intimate films that explore human relationships, vulnerability, and identity. Most of her work were made in France, Germany and Italy.
Her debut short Raphael (2020), filmed in Berlin, received multiple awards and was acquired by the U.S. platform Dekkoo. In 2021, she co-directed ALEX in Italy, which won a jury prize at the Nikon Film Festival and was selected for the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also broadcast on BrutX and continues to screen internationally.
Following this recognition, she received a writing grant from the CNC and co-directed Après l'été (2023), in which she also acts. That same year, she directed Ordinary Violence, acquired by Formeweb TV and 7 Palms Entertainment, and later broadcast on MyTF1.
In 2024, she directed Sous mon cœur, feux d'artifice (fireworks under my heart) as part of the Nikon Film Festival. This film depicts the Middle East conflict through children's eyes. Her work is marked by a poetic visual style and a deep focus on emotional truth.
In 2025, she won 2nd place on a pitching contest for her short film On se retrouve au Kebab and has directed two really short films T'es mon amour and Madame Héros, that got selected for the festival Festival du Film de Demain.