In Before the Wedlock House, the bride allows filmmaker Liao Jiekai to follow her in close lengths documenting her pre-dawn conversations with her make-up artist and the early birds in her wedding entourage. In conversational chapters, we learn about the relationships between her, the filmmaker and the greater environment that surrounds them.
Two women meet weekly to devise a performance on becoming their fictional characters. In this process personal stories co-exist with written texts, that leads to issues pertaining identity, nostalgia and longing.
A Covid-19 omnibus film by students of Multimedia University (Malaysia).
An ex-convict of substance abuse tries to win over his 9-year-old son and reintegrate himself into society. His value as a father and a man is challenged as he goes through a particularly trying day.
An Indonesian fisherman in a foreign coastal city is disillusioned with his state of being as he has to spend one last day with his foreign lover.
Inspired by Dora Jalius, a girl from Simohong showed Sabah Pongo Society (PONGO) the incredible impact of kindness on humanity. She was diagnosed with brain cancer and never forget her family. The love from her family became the foundation of PONGO's Development Programme in Simohong.
Colonialism and modernity, tropics and the arts. In 1955, Ho Kok Hoe, then president of the Singapore Art Society made a months-long journey to the UK, Europe and the US. An artist and architect of local repute, curatorial legend has it that he embarked on the journey with over 200 pieces of artworks by him and 6 other Singaporean artists. His search for an exhibition venue began only upon his arrival in London, which by some minor miracle culminated in the first exhibition of Singaporean art in Europe.
Structured around traditional wayang kulit puppetry, Nurudin draws together references to Islamic culture and her explorations of S&M.
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.
It revolves around the story of Tok Adi who tried to investigate a strange incident that happened to some people who lived in different districts and had nothing to do with himself.
Arip, an unemployed man aspires to become rich by selling lemang and then he tries to find bamboo and unexpectedly met with a beautiful Lemang Bamboo Princess who was injured.
"'Jiran Sekampung' is an ambitious [social-realist] ensemble film that ties together overlapping story-strands. (...) It seeks to function like a microcosm of contemporary Malay society. There's envy and backbiting, but also love and understanding. People are conscious of status. The old are quick to judge the young. Men are socially privileged, but women sometimes make their own worst enemies." (Amir Muhammad, '120 Malay Movies', 2010)
A young Malay man named Ramlie has a bad habit of getting up early. This habit makes it difficult for him to get a job so that every day he always quarrels with his mother. One day, because her mother is sick, Ramlie has to shop at the stall of Pak Mad Pantun and meets Laila, her idol. In order to maintain the prestige of Herman, the young rival of Ramlie to get Laila, Ramlie invites Laila to a weekly night even though at that time he did not have the money. Ramlie also racked his brain to look for capital to start looking for a loan from Mr. Mad Pantun and also toured the village. During his journey, Ramlie found interesting things that had been marginalized, especially Malay culture such as Makyong, traditional games and many more. Until he manages to meet Norma on the night of the week he dreams of, an unexpected incident becomes a turning point in his life.
Nina is suffering from emotional distress when she learns that her baby died at birth. She then heard the baby crying at her mother-in-law's house, and began to feel that her child was still alive.
Farah could not comprehend the fact after she found out that her son, Hani has dyslexia. As a villager with no education qualifications, she did not know what dyslexia was.
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 story tells of Kelantan people who migrated to Kuala Lumpur.
A young man travels back and forth between his parents' public housing flats, searching for a beloved T-shirt so he can join his friends on a highway motorcycling trip.
Abu Samad is a very fierce man. He is even feared by his neighbors, hence calling him ‘Samad Tedung’ (Cobra Samad). He will even punish his children for making petty mistakes. His wife, Rusmila has always been patient with his behavior although her family asked her to leave him.
