What is passion? What is pleasure? Actors and non-actors contemplate questions of the heart and play a game of word association, ruminating on definitions. And when words are inadequate, they employ movement. Drunk on life, art and a youthful honesty, characters reveal their inner worlds, relating a generation’s sensibilities.
Excited about the chance to take a trip abroad, a grandmother living in a Bruneian kampong cannot help but tell every neighbour she meets about it, even if it is just to nearby Miri. But she is not the only one in the family with holiday plans.
Akmal had promised his mother that he was getting married this time but he had not met the girl of his choice so far. It's all because of two things: 1) He wants a beautiful girl 2) He doesn't look attractive. Desperate to have a girlfriend, Akmal has taken to using makeup to make his face look good. But the unexpected was that he had turned into a beautiful woman. Now Akmal is facing new problems when many men fall in love with him.
By trailing a solitary character who roams the land and communes with the dead, the film serves as an elegy to a richly layered site on the verge of rupture.
Suri dreams of becoming an actress but her money, which she has borrowed from a "money lender", gets stolen by a travel agency. The thugs are now hunting her down to force her to pay her debt. She plans to get her mother's grant to pay for it but she is stopped by her sister. In dire need of money, she decides to accept a high-paying job as a caretaker of a blind man, since she has experience taking care of her blind mother. She encourages herself to go to the man's bungalow, even though it is supposedly haunted by the spirit of his late wife.
This documentary follows Malaysia's national blind football team, known as Harimau Buta, on their journey to qualify for the World Blind Football Championships. The footballers Asri, Kenchot and Rollen, along with their coach Sunny Shalesh, are also working hard to defend their 2017 ASEAN Para Games' championship title.
A loser struggles to be a good seamstress and starts a bussiness
Selasih, a married young woman who appears to be struggling through a personal problem that is noticeable amongst her coworkers. Ana, a caring colleague came to Selasih’s aid but is frustrated when she did not manage to get through and decided to go find the root of the problem before it’s too late.
The past life of a successful doctor named Alia with her disability brother. It centers around the lives of past successful doctor named Alia with a disabled brother. They were orphaned when both their parents died in a road accident. Demi sustain life, Alia and her brother sell Fried around the village. Following the difficulties of life, her brother was finally handed to the host family because Alia wants her ambition to be a doctor.
A short film about a lonely middle aged landlord who rented a room to a couple. The landlord begins to develop an interest to the tenant's young girlfriend and starts creeping into her life.
A young American girl and her friends search for the resting place of her birth parents deep in the Malaysian jungle and encounter the Pontianak, a demonic female banshee seeking revenge on those who have wronged her.
Mat is contented working as a rag-and-bone man. He is offered a paper bag that he thinks is just filled with shards of glass. It turns out to contain jewels worth millions of dollars that he unknowingly gives away to his friend Hamid. The owner sends his henchmen on a wild goose chase to hunt down the bag. This bewilders Mat as he is forced to be on the run. He puts on various disguises and encounters a slew of obstacles and colourful characters along the way.
Requiem depicts now-elderly former communists reclaiming memories of their political participation, war, deportation, exile, and socialist dreams, in the form of song. In their youth, they were guerrilla fighters who took on the British in the jungles of Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) in the anti-colonial war of 1948-1960. Two versions of this work exist, single and double-channel video installation with sound. The double-channel version was shown as part of solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York. The single-channel version was shown at the Venice Biennale 2024 as part of The Disobedience Archive curated by Marco Scotini.
In a mist-shrouded swamp, Raaja, a quiet, introspective boy, captures a red Siamese fighting fish with his friend Gila, a curious chatterbox. What begins as a simple act of fascination turns into a haunting meditation on life and the bonds between living beings. Raaja learns from an old bird keeper, Pak Tok, that every living thing we hold becomes our responsibility, its life, its fate, its death. When Raaja’s care turns to obsession and the fish dies, he confronts the painful truth about love, loss, and letting go. Set against a haunting natural landscape, Sayap is a poetic tale of innocence, mortality, and the delicate balance between human hands and the wild soul of nature.
Shahnon Ahmad's novel Terdedah (1965) has not been reprinted in decades. This rambunctious satire is about a young widow with two lovers. Why hasn't the book been seen for so long? Did it "dedah" (reveal or expose) too much? Amir Muhammad asks seven artists how they would design a cover of Terdedah if it were reprinted today. Through Zoom, they discuss how the novel can be presented visually. In an unfortunate twist, one of the artists disappeared after agreeing. So this artist is replaced by ChatGPT. The six human artists are Anderson Ee, Fahmi Mustaffa, Hannah, Mark Lee See Teck, Syuq Tone and Yante Ismail.
What can we learn from spaces of futures past? Derived from the Kelate word for matchstick, Ggésék is a portrait of human-machine relationships in the twilight of Malaysia’s last match factory. A space once bustling with over 1000 workers is now manned by 26 with a single match dipping machine, reconfiguring space and relationships on the factory floor. We invite you to sit and contemplate with us amidst the immersive clattering engines and quiet moments of prayer.
