Fantastic Fruits

Fantastic Fruits 2022

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Buah Dahsyat (Fantastic Fruits) is a short film capturing the veiled and coded lives of residents in Boon Lay, Singapore through enigmatic fruits acting as multifarious symbols for intersecting themes including everyday rituals, desire, social mobility and labour. Anchored by the voice of drag queen Luna Thicc, the fruits’ behaviour and habits become enmeshed with found footage, smartphone videos and kitsch popular culture imagery.

2022

Assalamualaikum

Assalamualaikum 2020

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A son struggles to overcome his grief when he loses his father during the COVID-19 pandemic and has to make peace with his brother.

2020

Dance Like a Snail

Dance Like a Snail 2021

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The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing.

2021

Echo

Echo 2020

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Based on the folklore of Sape’, this film follows a woman’s journey into the realm of the supernatural and to be awakened to accept her husband’s deteriorating condition.

2020

Dora

Dora 2021

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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.

2021

Clothes for Mom

Clothes for Mom 2015

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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.

2015

Rompak Raya

Rompak Raya 2021

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Aidilfitri special telefilm, 'Rompak Raya' starring Syafiq Kyle and Amerul Affendi

2021

Tuju Tuju

Tuju Tuju 1970

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Dr Eddy, Dr Suzana, Luthya dan Vanessa have arrived in Kampung Parit Polong to investigate and solve the mystery of the curse that has befallen the village. The curse is causing and making one by one of the villagers kill themselves by suicide. They suspect that it is the curse by an old bomoh (shaman) who was wrongly accused by the villagers in the past, and they must find out how to break the curse. However, Suzana also has a reason to be there for her younger sibling was kidnapped and lost in the village years ago. Directed by Javerd Nizar, this movie is a joint Malaysian-Indonesian collaboration.

1970

Bebel

Bebel 2016

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A series of intersectional relationship stories that revolve around and bring unity with the diversity of food in Malaysia.

2016

No Love for the Young

No Love for the Young 2020

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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.

2020

Ninavau

Ninavau 2019

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Ninavau, a native Kadazan woman returns from Peninsular Malaysia to her devout Catholic family in Sabah – with a change of heart.

2019

Aishah

Aishah 2020

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Two siblings deal with the death of their mother while hosting her mourning ceremony.

2020

Rotan

Rotan 2017

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A father, who is also the discipline master at his son’s school, has to grapple with his own principles when his rebellious son breaks one of the school rules.

2017

Alkesah

Alkesah 2018

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Mat Jenin is a hopeless dreamer who is the new village head of Kampung Alkesah, a position he reluctantly inherited from his late father, along with the mounting misfortunes that have been distressing his beloved village. At the advice of Pak Belalang, the village astrologer, Mat Jenin must embark on a quest to brave through Hutan Bahana to the summit of Gunung Saman and seek out the evil witch Nenek Kebayan. Only by doing the witch's bidding will the curse that she has put on the village be lifted, thus ensuring survival and happiness for his merry bunch of villagers. Mat Jenin soon discovers that this daring mission might be more than his great imagination could ever have conjured.

2018

Coklat Chip Spesial

Coklat Chip Spesial 2020

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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.

2020

Kolong

Kolong 2019

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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.

2019