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- Divorced and exhausted, retired actress Moon Lee is offered the chance of a comeback as the lead of a do-your-own stunts martial arts film.
- 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.
- Ping leaves her hometown for Kuala Lumper to work with her aunt. During the counteless days of boredom, her niece shares with her conversations with a pen pal during the day, while a young man named John tries to woo her at night even though she already has a boyfriend back home. Although they already set the rules from the every beginning, her belief that love conquers all still slowly strips off all her inhibitions. With authentic and relatable characters, TAN Chui-mui's debut feature was a winner at numerous film festival. There are a thousand ways for love story to be a cliché, but this film is the one that remains true and captivating.
- The story of Sidi, who lives in a run down neighborhood in the Malaysian city of Johor Bahru near the prospering Singapore, is told through seemingly ordinary moments in his life.
- This is the third and final part of James Lee's Love Trilogy which offers a glimpse of the life of three lovers portrayed in three long scenes about the three couples turning point in their relationship.
- Six directors each reflect on the Chinese diaspora.
- MEE lives with her widowed mother since the father passed away. MENG the youngest and only son in the family lives outside on his own. Somehow the father's passing has leaves a strange aura to the family which has drifts apart emotionally as the mother continues her affair with her lover, which none of the children knew about.
- Two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their situation went to a trip out of the city, into the outskirt hoping to find a conclusion to their affair.
- Sook Chen quit her job. She decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, he could never understand what Sook Chen wants.
- Fifteen short films with socio-economic subject matter by 15 directors of Malaysia's "New Wave" and "No Wave."
- A portrait of village life in South Thailand, home of retired Malay-Muslim members of the communist party of neighboring Malaysia. Recollections of the decades-long guerrilla war are interspersed with a Thai radio soap opera.
- Azam comes back to his village, and looks for his childhood friend Ali. Ali and his wife Minah invites Azam for fishing and a mid night picnic on a small island. Towards the end of the night, they have a game of holding breath underwater for 3 minutes, and Azam is never seen again...
- One day Chang's wife Ling Yue went to work and never returns. She left no message of whatever kind or clues. A man named Tong shows up and claims to be Ling Yue's lover and is looking for her too. In a turn of event both men formed an uneasy alliance in order to find Ling Yue. This is the first part of James Lee's Love trilogy.
- "Sometime, Sometime" peers into the uneventful everyday lives of Zi Kien and his single mother. One day he finds out that his mother has a new boyfriend, Mr Lee, and he is worried that he might lose her to this new stranger. Zi Kien decides to imitate adults like Mr Lee by copying their speech, their clothes, and smoking. However, Zi Kien's body is small for his age and he is still yet to become a man so his behavior does not match his physical appearance. Their lives remain uneventful until one night when his mother falls asleep drunk, Zi Kien touches her entangled hair and observes her wrinkled face. The next day she decides to get herself a 'haircut'. Both mother and son begin to act strangely in front of one another, a push and pull of deep desire for love and tenderness yet they get scared sometimes to care too much; causing their relationship to be riddled in anxiety. Because of this, their lives become just a little bit more interesting. They learn of their own unpredictable nature, and how they cope with life as it goes on.
- A woman on the brink of adulthood has a conversation with a world-weary older man during the course of one night.
- After her singing career fails in Taiwan, Fei decides to move back to Malaysia to open a cafe. She meets up with Pete, an old friend she had not met in 10 years. Pete had just recently closed down his music bar. He brings her to a junkyard to hunt for furniture.
- The laid-back, scenic and conservative Terengganu was the only one out of the 13 states of Malaysia that director Amir Muhammad had never been to. So he decided to go there for the first time in December 2015 and do a kind-of-travelogue about it. He quotes from "Voyage to Kelantan" (1838), a book by Munshi Abdullah (often referred to as the father of Malay journalism) which had some very scathing observations about the state and the men who live in it. These quotes are interspersed with conversations with some Terengganu men of today. Co-directed by Badrul Hisham Ismail who is a Terengganu native.
- In the Malaysian state of Kelantan, tossed about by politics, the shadow play of Wayang Kulit traces a steady decline. Using the framework of the play and operating in the space between politics and art, the director follows the lives of artists who carry on this tradition despite all odds.
- Koh and Hua are 2 old school radio deejays struggling to stay relevant after their company gets bought over by a mainland Chinese MNC. They are thrown into a trans-media project about the Chinese diaspora, which mirror their lives.
- Fraternal twins with a telepathic bond are abandoned by their father after his remarriage. Left to fend for themselves, their brotherly connection faces a test with the arrival of a new teacher, Lara.
- Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster enforcer. While Or Kia works hard to put his sister through school, Ah Soon cares for an unstable girlfriend prone to mysterious disappearances. As they both sink deeper into a nocturnal world of debts, drugs, and betrayal, Or Kia's loyalties are strained when Ah Soon falls out of favor with the bosses and tries to escape the business.
- Four male friends meet at a pizza restaurant for a late night of boozing and talking.
- We often fall in love first, and then look for reasons, to justify why we love someone. To ask "why you love me?", is as silly as to ask "why you don't love me?". There is no reason, and there is no logic.
- In September 1998, Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. His expulsion and subsequent trial for corruption and sodomy triggered a wave of street protests by his supporters and those who were against the authoritarian rule of the government. The label for this movement and era was 'reformasi' (reformation). Malaysian Gods takes a look at several pivotal protests that took place in the year following his sacking. It eschews archive footage in favor of interviews with people who are living, working in or visiting the actual locations of the demonstrations, about a decade later. All the interviews are done in Tamil, the main language of the smallest of the three major ethnic groups. What do people now have to say about their lives, hopes and dreams? And have the socio-political markers of Malaysian society changed all that much since then?
- A woman, distraught, starts stuttering to herself.
- Di (22), a maid who travelled from Sumatra to work in Kuala Lumpur, has been taking care of a lonely elder at home. From her place, she sees KLCC everyday, and longs to visit there, which she believes to be the symbol of Malaysia, yet she couldn't leave her workplace due to the nature of her job. To Di, Kuala Lumpur is a developed city, where its people are educated and wealthier. She hopes one day she could transform into a person of higher class. One day, Di found an opportunity to visit KLCC by pretending to bring the elder to the "old mansion". In this adventure, she also embarks on the journey of finding her own identity.
- Family dinner. Typical family portrait. Family members gathered lively at the table to eat and chat-they talked about other people enthusiastically. They continue to give solutions and even criticise the troubles encountered by other people's families. Some people eat quietly, like an outsider. None of them ever watched themselves. In this family gathering, sudden incidents have unexpectedly caused tension among family members, and they must also face this cruel fact.