Author: KKIFF

4.00pm Heart of Gaya Street Q&A with the director Malaysia | 47 mins | 2016 | Documentary Director: William Chiang M. F. Synopsis: Heart of Gaya street is a vivid collection of tales about a few personalities who have lived almost their entire lives on Gaya Street. We see through their eyes the tide of […]

4.00pm Meet stars from JAGAT! JAGAT / BRUTAL Malaysian | 86 mins | 2015 | Drama Director: Shanjhey Kumar Perumal Synopsis and Director’s Comment: Set in the early 1990’s, a critical period in Malaysian Indian history, the story subtly underlines the plight of the Malaysian Indian. Forsaken by the estate owners who had employed them […]

4.00pm Highway Malaysia | 13 mins | 2015 | Fiction Director: Aw See Wee Meet See Wee at the screening for Q&A Synopsis A college boy picks his mother up for a wedding banquet in downtown Kuala Lumpur. In the car ride jammed with typical highway traffic and an AC breakdown, they are stuck in […]

4.00pm Born into Brothels USA | 140 mins | Documentary Dirs: Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski Synopsis: Briski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata to photograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers. The children were given cameras so they […]

4.00pm IISA / AS ONE Philippines | 90 mins | 2015 | Drama Director: Chuck Gutierrez Synopsis and Director’s Comment: IISA / AS ONE is a narrative feature about a never ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm and the woman caught in between. Mindanao, Philippines. When a strong typhoon hits an armed-conflict […]