Ain, a 28-year-old full-time patient care assistant, struggles to find a work-life balance. Work can be overwhelming for her on some days but there are days when working as a caregiver brings joy to her life. After a long day of visitations, she always looks forward to her last patient’s house.
This film features senior and new actors including Datuk Jefri Omar, Aman Shah, Ebby Saiful, Razali Hussein, Megat Terawis and Tizie Nik. Filming of this film is expected to start on 12 January 2022 in locations around Kedah for 20 days. - Vibration, December 21, 2021
Singapore production directed by A.R. Tompel.
Tells the story of a group of female students who face various mystical disturbances until a hidden secret is unraveled after 100 days. What is the mystery?
Ignored in school and at home, Hannah (13), turns to social media for attention. Along the way she meets Eve, an android who shows her the importance of human connection.
An all star cast of Bruneian actors take the silver screen by storm as HANI (Liyana Yus) trains to become an elite security guard tasked with protecting one of Brunei's rarest natural treasures.
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.
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.
Two stories intertwine: one of a workaholic father and his growing impatience with his young son as they make their way to a wayang kulit show and the other of a man who dotes on his son but secretly inflicts acts of abuse on his wife before he disappears after a violent incident.
Three mothers, each facing their own hardships, find strength and common ground in each other as their lives converge at a local social service center.
Structured around traditional wayang kulit puppetry, Nurudin draws together references to Islamic culture and her explorations of S&M.
A series of intersectional relationship stories that revolve around and bring unity with the diversity of food in Malaysia.
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.
"'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.
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.
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.
