Event overview
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Join us for a showcase of South East Asian short films from Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
MONDAY NIGHT SCREENING
Aiming to increase the awareness of South East Asian screen culture, this film screening event helps to raise the profile of South East Asian filmmakers.
1. INDONESIA
The Malediction (Ruah)
Writer/Director: Makbul Mubarak
2017/ 20 mins
In Indonesian with English subtitles
Halim considers himself a pious Islamic man. He wishes to marry a young woman in her village as a second wife to save her from a miserable life. His wife doesn’t agree. Halim contemplates on his own decision while a weird fantasy world starts to suck him in.
2 BRUNEI
Still Vanishing Children
Writer/Director: Abdul Zainidi
2016 / 14 mins
Told and narrated like a storybook, Still Vanishing Children is a series of stories centring missing people, spirits and abandoned houses that possess energy. The film investigates superstitions and beliefs, restrictions and to some degree, escaping the physical world.
Boy on Fire
Writer/Director: Abdul Zainidi
2016 / 2 mins
A coming of age fiction story about forbidden love and the deathly themes of a tragedy that beckon. It is about wanting to be loved.
3. LAOS
A Long Way Home
Writer/Director: Xaisongkham Induangchanthy
2017 / 18 mins
In Laotian with English subtitles
A Lao American young man, James, brings his father’s ashes to Laos to fulfil his last wish – to return home. His mom keeps telling him to stay away from their relatives in a village to avoid getting asked for money. He stays in a city until a stupa to house his father’s ashes is built. One day, James' relative, Joi, travels to town to look for him. They have to travel together on the mighty Mekong and endure each other’s differences.
4. EAST TIMOR
Hamrok Ba Ran (Thirsty for Blood)
Writer/Director: Malkriadu Cinema (Agivedo “Laka” Veralera and Thomas Henning)
2017 / 17 mins
In Tetun with English subtitles
A vampire drifts through the night in Dili seeking blood. He encounters others with appetites that also cannot be sated. The first ever horror-comedy from Asia’s newest nation.
5. SINGAPORE
Poets On Permits
Director: Upneet Kaur-Nagpal
2016 / 30 mins
'Poets on Permits' is a documentary on migrant workers in Singapore and their poetry. Read between their lines. Five captivating people from Bangladesh, Philippines, India, China and Indonesia, share their personal stories and views on the local migrant worker life. The documentary features their poetic talent and hopes to bring us closer as a society - realising that at the end of the day, we all have common goals - of home, love and happiness.
6. PHILIPPINES
No Rice Grows Among the Lemongrass (Wala’y Humayan Sa Tanglad)
Writer/Director: Neil Angelo Briones
2018 / 13 mins
In Cebuano with English subtitles
A mockumentary crew go out into Philippine agricultural heartland to tail the lives made rich by miracle rice—a prized strain of the grain with almost mythic qualities. The short film tackles the issues of farming, religious cults and capitalism in a small town.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Mar 2019 |
6:00pm - 8:30pm Refreshment served after film screening. Accessibility: RHB 137 is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. |
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