Malaysia

A story about a careless mother and her lonely, insecure daughter. Eighteen year old Faye is always on the edge because of her mother’s boyfriends. Her mother survives by running a beauty shop. Since there are only the two of them, they are very close and are at times like friends or sisters, but to Faye, her carefree mother is also like a child she needs to watch after. She is also plagued by rumors about her and her mother. Her anger reaches its limit when she learns that her mother is pregnant. Sadly, she can’t do anything but endure reality and hope to escape her dull and depressing life.
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A spark of childhood inspiration causes an autistic man to embark on a quest to collect delicate items. Little does he know that his quest of building a delicate item would unlock the answers to his life and change everything.Read More »

In the outskirts and back-alleys of Kuala Lumpur, several individuals with money problems struggle to get their lives straight, finding their paths unexpectedly intersecting – with fatal results.Read More »

Appoy is a school kid with a creative mind who couldn’t cope up with the formal system. All the while he got attention through his art. When he was forced to the edge of the system he begin to lose his identity. Later he is pushed into a loser category. At one point he begins to get attention when he started to perform outside of the system as a wild character. Because of the strong outer factor of the system and due to confused feelings he chose to remain as a wild character without knowing he is actually being a slave of the rottening system.Read More »

Two boys, Li Ahh and Li Ohm, grow up motherless. Their father, Sui, is a workaholic who shuts himself out of the world. The boys’ quest to reach out to their father leads them to adopt a puppy. But when the animal is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. For the first time, Sui realizes that all his children ask is simply to love and be loved.Read More »

The story revolves around the central character of Bapak, an ageing, polygamous, British-educated, Malay, Muslim, retired journalist, patriarch, who realises he doesn’t have much time left on Earth and so invites his five children to have dinner with him to discuss some unresolved family matters with them, including who will inherit his house, their childhood home, an old decaying mansion, set in an acre of lush garden in the centre of the rapidly developing capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.Read More »

Sheriff and Nazri, police officers from different departments, team up to take down Tony, a ruthless drug kingpin running a methamphetamine syndicate responsible for numerous deaths, known as the Meth Killer.Read More »

San Francisco International Film Festival wrote:
Director Tan Chui Mui returned to her birthplace, a quiet and remote Malaysian fishing village, to film Year Without a Summer, a story of boyhood friends who reunite after a long separation. Steeped in the rhythms of the sea, their story develops slowly and mysteriously, in a meditative tone that illuminates the poetry and emotion of their lives. Beginning with the arrival of Azam, now an adult on the tail end of a successful singing career in Kuala Lumpur, the film weaves together flashbacks to reveal the circumstances of their relationship, as Ali and his wife take Azam on a nighttime boat trip to an uninhabited island. Read More »

Zi Kien and his mother Ah Lin have only each other in their life until one day Ah Lin has a new boyfriend. Zi Kien feels that his place in Ah Lin’s life is threatened, and he starts to change himself.Read More »