Fauzan Zidni is at Cannes this year as the newly elected chair of the Indonesian Film Agency (BPI) with a program already in Critics’ Week and the agency making its first institutional appearance at the festival. “Next Step Studio Indonesia” — four short films by Indonesian directors made alongside peers from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Myanmar and produced by Yulia Evina Bhara and Amerta Kusuma at KawanKawan Media and co-produced by Dominique Welinski, the program’s originator and curator — premieres at Critics’ Week. It is the first Cannes project drawn entirely from Indonesian financing . “That is not a debut,” Zidni tells Variety . “That is a thesis.” Popular on Variety The thesis, as Zidni frames it, is that Indonesian cinema’s next phase cannot rely on individual producers’ persistence. “Indonesia is one of the few film markets in the world where local films now routinely outperform Hollywood,” he says. “We have the audience.…