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Here we meet Mameng, a laundrywoman who aspires to work in Hong Kong; Tiago, a plantation caretaker who drinks his heartaches away; and Ilyong, Jun-jun and Moymoy, three youngsters whose only joy, aside from playing games, is watching action movies at the "Betamax House", the town's makeshift theater with a player and pirated videos. One fateful night will make them realize what the 'Balikbayan Box' is truly worth. |
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A love story. At first sight maybe a simple love story. About how blind a girl in love can be. Slowly but unavoidable the story will become less simple, will raise more questions without giving too many answers. Main character - if not main victim - is Ah Peng (Coral Ong Li Whei). A common girl from Penang. She arrives in some outskirt of Kuala Lumpur to find work in the economy rice stall of her aunt. She is taken in by the family like an older daughter and shares a room with little sister Mei (Leong Jiun Jiun). In a way Mei is the main character - and certainly no victim - of her own love story with a mysterious pen pal. The indolent Ah Peng and the bright and lively Mei get along very well. Like real sisters. Ah Peng has a boy friend in Penang. Regularly she makes her way to the public phones to make her ritual call. Fate has it that just there she attracts the attention of John (Stephen Chua Jyh Shyan). John shamelessly listens in on the conversations between Ah Peng and her boy friend and right there starts a relationship that has to be doomed. Tiger Award - 2006 Rotterdam; Best Film - Asian Digital Competition, Official Selection 2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival |
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This is a movie about polygamy in modern Indonesia, the largest Moslem country in the world. It is a film about three women from three different social classes and ethnic backgrounds, conveying their passages in dealing with polygamy: sharing a husbandÕs love and attention with several other women. The film reveals their troubles and internal conflicts. In their course of finding the answers to their problems, sometimes they meet with each other without even realizing that they share a similar story. Best Feature Film - 2006 Hawaii International Film Festival |
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 Mukhsin | Yasmin Ahmad | Malaysia Orked is ten. Mukhsin is twelve. They meet during one school holiday and quickly become the best of friends. They play together and even dress alike. But everything comes to an end when Mukhsin has to go back to his village. Mukhsin never promised that he will be back, but Orked assure that she would ask her parents to drop by at Mukhsin's place, but a misunderstanding between them has changed everything. Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix, Glass Bear - Special Mention - 2007 Berlin International Film Festival; Official Selection - 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival |
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 Pao's Story | Quang Hai Ngo | Vietnam Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past. Official Selection - 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival; Golden Kite Award for the Best Movie Category - 2005 Vietnam Cinematography Association; Official Selection Cannes Film Festival. |
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 Ploy | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Thailand Ploy is a highly detailed, erotic psychological drama in which three strangers are locked inside one hotel room. It starts with subtle suspicions and builds up to jealousy, as the appearance of a young woman triggers devastating consequences for a married couple. Official Selection - 2007 Quizaine Des Realisateurs Cannes |
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 Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand/France/Austria The real-life love story between filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents inspired this romantic drama which follows three separate stories occurring over a span of forty years. First, a shy but charming young doctor has just started working at a hospital in Bangkok, and he soon becomes deeply infatuated with a female surgeon on the staff. However, he has a rival for her affections, as she has feelings for a man who grows and sells orchids. Later, a monk comes to the same hospital for an appointment with a female oral surgeon; over the course of the visit, the two discover they have a powerful chemistry, which may be love or could represent a deep level of spiritual communication. Finally, a new intern on the hospital's staff finds it difficult to deal with the prying minds of the administrative staff and he escapes into the outer reaches of the hospital, only to discover a forgotten wing of patients suffering from a variety of unusual maladies. Nominated for Gold Lion Award - Venice Film Festival 2006 |
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 The Unseeable | Wisit Sasanatieng | Thailand Flashback to year 1946, a young pregnant rural girl, Nuan-chan enters the city of Bangkok to find her missing husband. She rents a boarding house where she meets several strange incidents, especially the widow, Madame Run-juan, who is the also owner of the house- It has been rumoured that she still sleeps with her dead husband. In seeking of her own husband, the desperate girl finds the connection between the widow's husband and her. In discovering the truth, she has to encounter something unseeable. Official Selection - 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival
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