Category 1: Indigenous Language
Director: Ryot A Ujin (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Tells the adventures of seven children with a mission to set the “Sabah” state flag on the hilltop… along their journey they show the spirit of unity and not give up on themselves.
Director: Kelvin Soong (Malaysia)
Synopsis: A young man named Vanus regrets being helpless as he witnesses a distasteful robbery. Mentally pushed to the brink, he decides to do things right next time, hence: insanpo “one more time”. Will he find atonement? What happens next is up to one’s own interpretation.
Director: P DIK GANAI (Malaysia)
Synopsis: SININGGAZANAK ( A Wooden Monument To The Childless )
Long ago, in the middle of the twentieth century, there was a Kadazan husband named Jinu with his wife Indai. They worked on the land as farmers.
When his wife Indai died childles , Jinu felt angry and discriminated against by the head of the village as he found himself helpless in claiming his wife’s property. After an explanation by the headman and as well as being comforted by his own brother in law, two sisters in law and a few village people, Jinu began to understand the established legal procedure for the claiming of property.
A widely practiced custom in the Kadazan region was the commemoration of a childless person.
The head of the village, together with Jinu and members of his family and supported by the village people, attended a special ritual that was conducted by two priestesses (bobohizan) with an appropriate celebration to erect a wooden monument on Indai’s land.
Category 2: Narrative
Director: Mark Adrian Khor Wei Meng (Malaysia)
Synopsis: “You.” is a film about the different personality, passion or dream each person has. From one person to another, the film shows us whoever you are and whatever you do.. If you have the love and passion for it, doesn’t matter what your age is or what you do.. you have to keep it going and chase that dream of yours! Basically keep things rolling.
Director: Esa Hari Akbar (Indonesia)
Synopsis: A terrorist wants to detonate a bomb in a public toilet . Wwill he succeed ?
Director: Lyka Gonzalez (Philippines)
Synopsis: Set in the rural Philippines, a young girl, Nina, asks about her mother’s dreams and aspirations. As Nina’s mother recounts her bygone ambition of moving into the city, she and Nina are faced with pressing concerns about their choices. Agos: The Manila Dream explores the plight of fulfilling fantasies in the diaspora and surge of urban migration.
Director: Anupong Charoenmitr (Thailand)
Synopsis: With the experience gained from knowing. Man will link things together in his will. And one important thing that human beings require for understanding the event is “the confrontation” with the story or something by the instinct of self. Upon confrontation, responses received from situations.
Director: Arnont Nongyao (Thailand)
Synopsis: This film is a sound and film experimental made at the artist’s studio when he was playing with weird things that related a lot to the circle form. “All things can always link to both the rational and the un-rational, Thailand, May 22, 2014”
Director: Harlif Haji Mohamad (Brunei)
Synopsis: Amir sells family’s land to spend social materialistic lifestyle in city. He feels ashamed to visit his dementia-suffering father whose routine is to raise national flag everyday. Threatened to settle his debt in 3 days, Amir has no choice but return home to get the family’s last land grant for sale.
Director: Phua Cardin (Malaysia)
Synopsis: A dark, surrealistic revenge fantasy of animals on humans for the mess they have made.
Director: Matthew Victor Pastor (Vietnam)
Synopsis: “A surreal painting of moving lights, Xuống Dưới (Down Under) captures the melancholy of lost love and rejection amidst the emptiness that is found in a restless city” – Joyce Ng (Editor, JOM Magazine)
A young man from Australia is alone in a run down hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He smokes cigarette, after cigarette weeping. A Vietnamese local rides her motorbike through the neon lit city. She stops occasionally to light up a cigarette, and it’s back into the darkness for her. This is their story.
Director: Matthew Victor Pastor (Vietnam)
Synopsis: Valentine’s Day 2014, a Melbourne sex worker is going to find out the real meaning of love.
“A unmistakable vision, a unashamed film which paves it’s own way and ignores all signals.” – FakeShemp.net
Director: Jazli Iqbal (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Chan, a stubborn young mechanic, crosses path with Nur and her friend Nana who are stuck on a roadside with their old car broke down. Chan refuses to help them but returns to help them out of pity. While he is repairing the car, he got to know more about Nur and soon her story will make him realize about the importance of family and how ignorance would lead them to regret.
Director: Zaifirull Amry Khairi Bin Zulkhairi (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Imagine a film keeps rolling the same scene over and over again,but the difference is the character is aware of it…
Director: Au Yong SeokWun (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Catherine, passionate diver from a traditional Malaysian family is enjoying her life working on an island off Borneo. She is inspired by her friend, Eve, a scuba diving instructor to pursue a career and lifestyle similar to hers. With the support from Eve, she aspires to stay on the island and goes against her brother Eugene during his visit.
Catherine is forced to reconsider her decision upon discovering an unexpected news from home.
Director: Leow Hjun Nam (Malaysia)
Synopsis: The doll is not haunted. Xiao Shi is actually the murderer of Jing Yi because she is jealous of Jing Yi’s Boyfriend. She always puts the drug (white powder) in Mei Qi’s doll when she is asleep. Thus, Xiao Shi is able to hypnotize Mei Qi , causing illusions and a mental breakdown. This will cause Mei Qi to think she is the one killing Jing Yi while Xiao Shi is the real murderer.
Director: Mohammad Khalil bin Abdul Mait (Malaysia)
Synopsis: A story about love and how Newton’s Law of Motion applies in our daily life.
Director: Putri Purnama Binti Sugua (Malaysia)
Synopsis: This short film is an experimental still photo of human journey from womb till death.
Director: Aaron Hiew Ing Sheng (Malaysia)
Synopsis: A girl struggling in her split personality between her cannibal and naive sides. Knowing that a cannibal is bad, but with temptation, her appetite towards humans grows. She decides to devour her prey but yet there is no satisfaction inside her knowing that she ends a human life.
Why desire to perform an action that one may enjoy immediately or in the short term but will probably later regret?
Director: Oui Jia Shin (Malaysia)
Synopsis: This is an experimental audio slide show using 10 digital art collages and sound design which is titled “Take over”. The story is about a man who is living in a world where everyone’s life is controlled by a mysterious controller. He can never get rid of the controller. However, everyone can become someone else’s life controller at a certain age. He tries to rebel and live his own life. However, he is burdened by more and more things. When it is his turn to be a life controller, he becomes revengeful. He plans to use his controlling power to live his dream using someone else’s life. He realizes he does not want others to experience the pain he has gone through. Ultimately, he gives up his power and sets people free
Director: Wong Swee Ling (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Earth prison- Diyu is a short video with a horror theme. This video is based on my own virtual hell that is inspired by ancient Chinese mythology. In this virtual hell, every human is taken after their death in the form of a soul to an underground place, to experience a series of punishments in order to realize their mistakes and wash away their demons. In my opinion, every human deserves punishment as all of them are sinful and only pain can make them change and be reborn.
To let viewers understand the purpose behind my film, I have included a story with images and sound. Also I have applied montage art in creating my images and video to make it different from other videos.
The story begins with a dead person, naked and in chains, being brought to a court which allows it to see its past when it was alive and all the crimes it has committed through the justice mirror above. Then it will need to go through a series of punishments to wash off its demons. It first meets a scary “beast”, a dragon, and is tortured. Then it is pulled down a cliff and loses its hands and legs as they are torn apart. It is also hurt the flying swords from the sky. Its body is seriously injured, and it is bleeding everywhere. Next, It drops down again into a hot lava area which is full with spikes mountains. It is scared and wishes someone can help it. At this moment, it is caught and hammered into the jungle by the giant beast’ in hell and flies into the jungle which is full of dangerous wild animals such as pigs and eagles. They eat humans as food as revenge on humans for treating them cruelly in the real world. An eagle flies down and catches it for food. It tears its skin apart and eats it. It loses its skin and is dumped on the ground. A fast horse and carriage come and crush him till blood splatters everywhere. It is severely injured, loses most of its body parts, and is left with only a skull, bones and a heart. As you can see, the heart is black. It symbolizes evil. Only evil has a black heart. In the last scene, its sins fly out and flow into the black hole, meaning it is being cleaned, and its demons are washed off and the black hole signifies that everything need to start over again.
I used “it” as my character is because I want to create no gender. No matter whether they are guys or girls, young ladies or young men, uncles or aunties, old men or old women, without any limitation of age, gender or background, one day, they will eventually go to hell. This is what I want to create.
Director: Wang Sin Yi (Malaysia)
Synopsis: A man with amnesia wants to find his mind again. So he starts a journey and discovers the dimension of Alchemy. In the end, he finds his mind but he just realises that he hasalready died.
Director: Syiling Wong Swee Ling (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Rrevenge by a girl towards the guy who kills her baby.
Jane is a young girl who loves her boy friend very much and she is willing to give everything to him. An accidental pregnancy ends her relationship. Matt does not admit the baby is his, he suspects her and they argue. Matt is really annoyed and he pushes Jane away. Jane hits the piano and the baby is gone. She is now mentally and physically destroye and ends up in a wheel chair. Jane then decides to get revenge. She makes a cake and delivers it to Matt’s house – the cake contains anesthetics. Without any hesitation, he eats it and Jane appears in his house. The act of standing up from the wheel chair shocks him but he cannot escape due to his dizziness. Jane ties him up and ends his life with continuous stabbing. She is eventually satisfied and commits suicide.
Director: Dion Chooi (Malaysia)
Synopsis: This is a story inspired by an ancient myth from Japan. It is about a girl named Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前, 玉藻の前, also 玉藻御前). She was said to be the most beautiful and intelligent woman in Japan and made everyone adored her, and even Emperor Konoe fell deeply in love with her.
When Konoe confess all his affection to the beautiful Tamamo-no-Mae, the Emperor suddenly fell ill. An astrologer told the Emperor that Tamamo-no-Mae was the cause of his illness, that the beautiful young woman was in fact a kind of evil; nine-tailed fox (kitsune: good fox spirit; nogitsune: malicious fox spirit) was making the Emperor ill in a devious plot to take the throne. Following this, Tamamo-no-Mae disappeared.
The Emperor ordered the most powerful warriors of the day, to hunt the fox. After eluding the hunters for some time, the fox appeared in warrior’s dream in the form of the beautiful Tamamo-no-Mae, the fox prophesied that Miura-no-suke would kill it the next day, and begged for its life. Miura-no-suke refused.
Early the next day, the hunters found the fox and shot and killed the magical creature with an arrow. The body of the fox became the Sessho-seki (殺生石), or Killing Stone, which kills anyone that comes in contact with it. Tamamo-no-Mae’s spirit became Hoji and haunted the stone.
Director: Wee Jia Foong (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Imperfection explores the concept of narcissism and self obsession. A teenager – subjected to society’s expectations and beliefs. As a teen, he struggles to maintain his outlook and presentation to the outside world, expecting attention because of his appearance, leaving him depressed and deprived of love, from others and from himself.
Director: Lee Kah Mun (Malaysia)
Synopsis: This is a Still Image and Sound Movie project I have done. The story is about the imagination of a girl that slowly fades when she grows up. She discovers the darkness of reality: follow the rules, broken family and greed for popularity.
I have created images and sound to tell the story.
Director: YK Kung (Malaysia)
Synopsis: This is a sweet story that happened between a grandpa and granddaughter. The granddaughter found out on social media when she was having breakfast that her grandpa fell down in Gaya Street. This is a story about the gap between two generations – and also the love that connects two generations.
Director: Lim Jian Hui and Lim Qian Li (Malaysia)
Synopsis: The Outsider is about a boy who needs to fit himself in the society. His life is like a rolling stone as his dad keeps changing jobs and moving from town to town.
Director: Ian Steven Ong (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Sara, an ordinary girl from a small town, decides to take up work in a busy city. The challenges she faces will push her to the brink of anxiety, and suddenly she is faced with making a decision.
Director: Putri Pernama Sugua (Malaysia)
Synopsis: SThe short film If Only tells the story of three friends, Ardi, Din and Emon who spend their time hanging out while dreaming their dreams
Category 3: Documentary
Director: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti (Thailand)
Synopsis: My goal is to investigate the expressive possibilities of conceptual visual language and to develop Collaborative New Art as part of both Contemporary Art/Contemporary Global Structure and the Technological Civilization in which we live today. I am especially interested in finding out how contemporary art can enhance the distribution of information and foster a profound universality in the human nature and cross-cultural artistic and critical collaboration.
Director: Ary Areonoliez Linsap (Malaysia)
Synopsis: The hostel of SMK Taun Gusi had a visit to Ranau. This activity was for the students to see places of interest in Ranau. In this documentary, we have shown the activities we did. Let’s watch !
Director: Lim Jian Hui and Lim Qian Li (Malaysia)
Synopsis: Race against Time is another reality show organized by the renowned Eco – Friendly Club of SMK Sultan Abu Bakar. The objective of this rolling on challenge is to choose the right candidate for the post of president. The theme supports Energy and Malaysia; highlighting an environmental, energy based issue, with a strong message to encourage and/or motivate the audience to take action.
