Aki Kaurismaki; 2006, 78 min
Award-winning Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki rounds out his minimalist 'loser trilogy' -- including Drifting Clouds and The Man Without a Past -- with this 'radiantly beautiful' (Film Comment) noir melodrama about a lonely security guard (Janne Hyytiainen) in Helsinki who is dragged into the shady business of a Russian femme fatale (Maria Jarvenhelmi). Timo Salminen's evocative cinematography is fittingly oppressive. Nominated for the Golden Palm at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
8.00pm, Monday 10 Dec 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
I Don't Just Want You to Love Me
Hans Gunther Pflaum
1993, 96 min.
This documantaryis an insightful and rich examination of the life and work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a true genius of German (indeed of world) cinema, filled with well-chosen excerpts from his many films and insightful comments from many of his collaborators. The film is divided into various sections profiling his life, career, and thoughts regarding the creative process.
Far superior to the later documentary Love, Life & Celluloid by long time Fassbinder editor Juliane Lorenz.
Monday 3 Dec 2007 8.00pm
1993, 96 min.
This documantaryis an insightful and rich examination of the life and work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a true genius of German (indeed of world) cinema, filled with well-chosen excerpts from his many films and insightful comments from many of his collaborators. The film is divided into various sections profiling his life, career, and thoughts regarding the creative process.
Far superior to the later documentary Love, Life & Celluloid by long time Fassbinder editor Juliane Lorenz.
Monday 3 Dec 2007 8.00pm
Sunday, November 25, 2007
BMW Shorties
Screened publicly for the first time, the 29 films shortlisted for the BMW short film competition 2007.
Presented by BMW Malaysia
Organised by Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia
in cooperation with HELP University College
Venue: HELP University College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Admission is free
Friday 30 Nov 8.00pm-9.20pm
1. Vroom² & Boot² (Law Gwo Yunn; 5' 17")
2. Roda-Roda (Akashdeep Singh; 1' 41")
3. Fortune Bucket (Muhammad Fatyhil Ahmad Shahab; 5' 50")
4. The Tale of Asli Dream (Mohd Aidil Mohd Snin; 12')
5. Average White Story (Mohd Hafizan Mohd Rajab; 13' 37")
6. Panjang Ceritanya (Anwar Fikri Abdullah; 4' 52")
7. Wake Up (Suntharesvaran Murugiah; 19' 54")
8. Old But Not Necessarily Dead (Ong Boon Keong; 17' 30")
(Total running time: 80' 41")
Saturday 1 Dec 4.00pm-6.00pm
1. Frozen Sun (Ooi Swee Yaw; 19' 24")
2. Still Frame (Derrick Yaw Kim Thean; 8’ 18”)
3. Satu Hari (Kamal Zihni Bin Zul Azhar; 15’ 33“)
4. Childrens (Balamurugan Kesavan; 13’ 33”)
5. Eyes Wider Than Before (Lim Benji; 6’)
6. Moving On (Michael Cheng Seong Mun; 15’ 55”)
7. En Passant (Cho We Jun; 13’ 13”)
8. Shattered (Lee Shee Bee; 20’)
9. The Promise (Sia Yaw Yie; 15’ 38”)
(Total running time: 2hrs 7:34min)
Sunday 2 Dec 4.00pm-6.00pm
<>1. Son of Coconut (Kartikesu Ramalingam; 2’ 42”)
2. The Broker ( Lawrence Tan Cheng Jin; 9’ 51”)
3. First Cut (Yong Jia Ling; 8’ 17”)
4. Karma (Nik Mohsain Harjuda Nik Ahmad; 3’ 2“)
5. The Waiting Room (Ding Jeet Sung; 8’ 32”)
6. Tears of the Island (Lai Soon Lee; 18’ 24”)
7. Noon (Ong Sau Kai; 18’)
8. Going Mobile (Choong Wei Chien; 10’ 14”)
9. ‘6693’ (Chong Kang Meng; 6’ 27”)
10. The Wrap (Hiong Hee Meng; 16 ’5”)
11. An Afternoon with the Box that Goes Around Town (Uzair Bin Sawal; 9’ 15”)
12. Cross Road (Chong Lead Yew; 15’ 3”)
(Total running time: 2hrs 5:52min)
Enquiries: 012-2255136
Presented by BMW Malaysia
Organised by Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia
in cooperation with HELP University College
Venue: HELP University College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Admission is free
Friday 30 Nov 8.00pm-9.20pm
1. Vroom² & Boot² (Law Gwo Yunn; 5' 17")
2. Roda-Roda (Akashdeep Singh; 1' 41")
3. Fortune Bucket (Muhammad Fatyhil Ahmad Shahab; 5' 50")
4. The Tale of Asli Dream (Mohd Aidil Mohd Snin; 12')
5. Average White Story (Mohd Hafizan Mohd Rajab; 13' 37")
6. Panjang Ceritanya (Anwar Fikri Abdullah; 4' 52")
7. Wake Up (Suntharesvaran Murugiah; 19' 54")
8. Old But Not Necessarily Dead (Ong Boon Keong; 17' 30")
(Total running time: 80' 41")
Saturday 1 Dec 4.00pm-6.00pm
1. Frozen Sun (Ooi Swee Yaw; 19' 24")
2. Still Frame (Derrick Yaw Kim Thean; 8’ 18”)
3. Satu Hari (Kamal Zihni Bin Zul Azhar; 15’ 33“)
4. Childrens (Balamurugan Kesavan; 13’ 33”)
5. Eyes Wider Than Before (Lim Benji; 6’)
6. Moving On (Michael Cheng Seong Mun; 15’ 55”)
7. En Passant (Cho We Jun; 13’ 13”)
8. Shattered (Lee Shee Bee; 20’)
9. The Promise (Sia Yaw Yie; 15’ 38”)
(Total running time: 2hrs 7:34min)
Sunday 2 Dec 4.00pm-6.00pm
<>1. Son of Coconut (Kartikesu Ramalingam; 2’ 42”)
2. The Broker ( Lawrence Tan Cheng Jin; 9’ 51”)
3. First Cut (Yong Jia Ling; 8’ 17”)
4. Karma (Nik Mohsain Harjuda Nik Ahmad; 3’ 2“)
5. The Waiting Room (Ding Jeet Sung; 8’ 32”)
6. Tears of the Island (Lai Soon Lee; 18’ 24”)
7. Noon (Ong Sau Kai; 18’)
8. Going Mobile (Choong Wei Chien; 10’ 14”)
9. ‘6693’ (Chong Kang Meng; 6’ 27”)
10. The Wrap (Hiong Hee Meng; 16 ’5”)
11. An Afternoon with the Box that Goes Around Town (Uzair Bin Sawal; 9’ 15”)
12. Cross Road (Chong Lead Yew; 15’ 3”)
(Total running time: 2hrs 5:52min)
Enquiries: 012-2255136
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Offside
In Iran, all women are banned from watching live football matches, a decision which President Ahmadinejad wished to repeal but he was overruled by the ulema....
Kelab Seni Filem's next film is framed against this background --
Offside
Jafar Panahi; 2006, 93 min
This film recounts what happens when a group of six girls try to sneak into a stadium where the Iran-Bahrain World Cup qualfying match is taking place. They are caught, and although excluded from the game, they are not allowed to go home. While Iran's most important match in years unfolds within earshot but out of view, they are put in the custody of three young and bewildered army conscripts. United by their patriotism and an obsessive desire for Iran to win, but divided by their views on the proper place for women, the characters in Offside represent a society in the process of tumultuous change. Inspired by the occasion when the director's own daughter was refused entry to a football stadium.
Awards: Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2006; Best Film, Amnesty International Film Award 2006.
Monday 19 Nov 8.00pm
Akan datang
BMW Shorties - screening of nominations for the BMW short film competition 2007
- beginning Friday 30 November, details to come.
Palestinian Film Festival
Many members missed the first few films of this program owing to the short notice, we will make amends by re-screening a number of the films at a later date.
Happy viewing
Kelab Seni Filem's next film is framed against this background --
Offside
Jafar Panahi; 2006, 93 min
This film recounts what happens when a group of six girls try to sneak into a stadium where the Iran-Bahrain World Cup qualfying match is taking place. They are caught, and although excluded from the game, they are not allowed to go home. While Iran's most important match in years unfolds within earshot but out of view, they are put in the custody of three young and bewildered army conscripts. United by their patriotism and an obsessive desire for Iran to win, but divided by their views on the proper place for women, the characters in Offside represent a society in the process of tumultuous change. Inspired by the occasion when the director's own daughter was refused entry to a football stadium.
Awards: Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2006; Best Film, Amnesty International Film Award 2006.
Monday 19 Nov 8.00pm
Akan datang
BMW Shorties - screening of nominations for the BMW short film competition 2007
- beginning Friday 30 November, details to come.
Palestinian Film Festival
Many members missed the first few films of this program owing to the short notice, we will make amends by re-screening a number of the films at a later date.
Happy viewing
Palestinian Film Festival
n conjunction with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people on 29 November 2007
Malaysian Social Research Institute (MSRI) presents
Palestinian Film Festival
Organised by Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia in cooperation with HELP University College
Venue: HELP University College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Open to the public - free admission
Wednesday 14 Nov 8.00pm
Children of Shatila (Dir Mai Masri, 1989, 50min)
Two Palestinian children record with video cameras the experience of Shatila, a refugee camp for 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese that has survived massacre, siege and starvation.
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Dir Mai Masri; 2001, 56min)
Award-winning filmmaker Mai Masri traces the delicate friendship between two Palestinian girls.
Thursday 15 Nov 8.00pm
West Beirut (West Beyrouth) (Dir Ziad Doueiri; 1999, 105min)
About two young boys and how their lives are affected by the Lebanese civil war.
Friday 16 Nov 8.00pm
Paradise Now (DirHany Abu-Assad; 2005, 87min)
Two Palestinians are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. But the operation does not go according to plan... Golden Globe Award 2005 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Saturday 17 Nov 8.00pm
Women Beyond Borders (dir Jean Chamoun; 2003, 58min)
Director Chamoun (with Mai Masri as producer) turns the camera on female ex-inmates of the notorious Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, run by Israel until 2000.
Sunday 18 Nov 8.00pm
In the Shadow of the City (dir Jean Chamoun; 2000, 105min)
In 1975, 12-year-old Ramli's life is turned upside down when Beirut is segregated into Muslim and Christian sectors. Twelve years later, Ramli is working as an ambulance driver, fighting to get news of his missing loved ones.
Related Program
Exhibition:
Palestin: Ketabahan Dalam Penderitaan
Organised by Malaysian Social Research Institute (MSRI) in cooperation with RA Fine Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian Social Research Institute (MSRI) presents
Palestinian Film Festival
Organised by Kelab Seni Filem Malaysia in cooperation with HELP University College
Venue: HELP University College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Open to the public - free admission
Wednesday 14 Nov 8.00pm
Children of Shatila (Dir Mai Masri, 1989, 50min)
Two Palestinian children record with video cameras the experience of Shatila, a refugee camp for 15,000 Palestinians and Lebanese that has survived massacre, siege and starvation.
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Dir Mai Masri; 2001, 56min)
Award-winning filmmaker Mai Masri traces the delicate friendship between two Palestinian girls.
Thursday 15 Nov 8.00pm
West Beirut (West Beyrouth) (Dir Ziad Doueiri; 1999, 105min)
About two young boys and how their lives are affected by the Lebanese civil war.
Friday 16 Nov 8.00pm
Paradise Now (DirHany Abu-Assad; 2005, 87min)
Two Palestinians are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. But the operation does not go according to plan... Golden Globe Award 2005 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Saturday 17 Nov 8.00pm
Women Beyond Borders (dir Jean Chamoun; 2003, 58min)
Director Chamoun (with Mai Masri as producer) turns the camera on female ex-inmates of the notorious Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, run by Israel until 2000.
Sunday 18 Nov 8.00pm
In the Shadow of the City (dir Jean Chamoun; 2000, 105min)
In 1975, 12-year-old Ramli's life is turned upside down when Beirut is segregated into Muslim and Christian sectors. Twelve years later, Ramli is working as an ambulance driver, fighting to get news of his missing loved ones.
Related Program
Exhibition:
Palestin: Ketabahan Dalam Penderitaan
Organised by Malaysian Social Research Institute (MSRI) in cooperation with RA Fine Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Port of Call (Hamnstad)
Dir Ingmar Bergman; 1948, 99 min
Bergman's neorealist drama set in Gothenburg is the story of Berit—an emotionally vulnerable young woman recently out of a reformatory and with an abusive mother—who is seen first attempting suicide by diving off the docks, then protesting furiously when she is rescued. A chance of happiness seems to present itself when she meets a dock worker at a dance, but first she must reconcile him to her troubled past and vicious-tongued mother. Bergman makes excellent use of his gritty, sea-front locations and doesn't shirk from showing the drudgery and misery his protagonists endure in their day-to-day lives.
Monday 12 November 8.00pm
Bergman's neorealist drama set in Gothenburg is the story of Berit—an emotionally vulnerable young woman recently out of a reformatory and with an abusive mother—who is seen first attempting suicide by diving off the docks, then protesting furiously when she is rescued. A chance of happiness seems to present itself when she meets a dock worker at a dance, but first she must reconcile him to her troubled past and vicious-tongued mother. Bergman makes excellent use of his gritty, sea-front locations and doesn't shirk from showing the drudgery and misery his protagonists endure in their day-to-day lives.
Monday 12 November 8.00pm
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Wheel
Dir. Morshedul Islam, 1993, 70min
The film depicts the journey of two bullock-cart drivers through rural Bangladesh who are assigned to deliver a corpse to his village. Wherever they go, they face hostility from the villagers. They never can find the village; what should they do now with the corpse? A parable that combines State violence with rural imagery, it won the Grand Prix at the Dunkerque film festival in France in 1994 and also bagged three awards at Mannheim .
Mon 5 Nov 8.00pm
The film depicts the journey of two bullock-cart drivers through rural Bangladesh who are assigned to deliver a corpse to his village. Wherever they go, they face hostility from the villagers. They never can find the village; what should they do now with the corpse? A parable that combines State violence with rural imagery, it won the Grand Prix at the Dunkerque film festival in France in 1994 and also bagged three awards at Mannheim .
Mon 5 Nov 8.00pm
Friday, October 26, 2007
A Tree without Roots
Dir Tanvir Mokammel; 106 min, 35mm, 2000
The film, based on a renowned novel of the same title, is set in rural East Bengal in the 1940s. It tells the story of a mullah (Muslim priest) who makes his way to fame and fortune by ‘inventing’ a shrine of a holy man in the corner of a village. An interesting look at the play between religion, power and sexuality against the backdrop of Muslim rural culture in South Asia . Winner of the Bangladesh national film award and was shown in the London Film Festival.
Mon 29 Oct 8.00pm
Happy viewing
The film, based on a renowned novel of the same title, is set in rural East Bengal in the 1940s. It tells the story of a mullah (Muslim priest) who makes his way to fame and fortune by ‘inventing’ a shrine of a holy man in the corner of a village. An interesting look at the play between religion, power and sexuality against the backdrop of Muslim rural culture in South Asia . Winner of the Bangladesh national film award and was shown in the London Film Festival.
Mon 29 Oct 8.00pm
Happy viewing
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni 1912-2007
This year in the space of 2 months (July-Aug) world cinema lost three of its greatest directors. This tribute comes after our two earlier ones to Edward Yang and Ingmar Bergman.
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film aesthetics. More than any other director, he encouraged filmmakers to explore elliptical and open-ended narrative.
This program features his most important works.
The Schedule
Sat 20 Oct
2.00pm - Il Grido (106 min)
4.00pm - L’Avventura (145 min)
6.30pm - L'Eclisse (125min)
Sun 21 Oct
2.00pm - La Notte (121 min)
4.15pm - Red Desert (116 min)
6.30pm - Blow-Up (111 min)
Mon 22 Oct
8.00pm - The Passenger (119min)
HELP Univ College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Admission by membership, available at the door: RM60 1 year (students RM30); RM40 6 mths; RM30 4 mths
Free admission for Alliance Francaise members & HELP students
Enquiries: 012-2255136
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Il Grido (The Cry; 1957, 106 min)
Aldo, a factory worker, fails to persuade his long-time lover Irma to marry him, and leaves town with their daughter to wander all over the Po Valley. Unable to forget Irma, he returns home, only to find her now living in a new home with a baby. Deeply depressed, he mounts the high tower in his former workplace…Il Grido marks a return for Antonioni to working class stories, but it continues his exploration of social alienation. Not as widely praised as his next film L’Avventura, but some consider it a better film. Winner of the Golden Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival, and the association of Italian film critics’ Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography (Gianni di Venanzo).
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L’Avventura (The Adventure; 1960, 145 min)
A girl vanishes from a group of bored and wealthy socialites on holiday, and her friends half-heartedly go in search of her. L'Avventura was Antonioni's international breakthrough, a classic study of an alienated Italian middle-class that made a star of the young Monica Vitti. Jeered by a startled audience at the 1960 Cannes film festival, it was later voted the second best movie ever made (after Citizen Kane).
La Notte (1961, 121 min)
The middle section of Antonioni’s trilogy on bourgeois alienation, La Notte covers 24 hours in the breakdown of a typical middle class marriage. Marcello Mastroianni is a novelist with a block, out of touch with his own instincts, while the wife (Jean Moreau) is a bored socialite who understands her own predicament but doesn’t know how to get past it.
L’Eclisse (The Eclipse; 1962, 125 min)
With L’Avventura and La Notte, this film completes Antonioni’s trilogy on doomed relationships in a fractured world. Lead actress Monica Vitti has a traumatic bust-up with a bookish man, and apathetically lets herself get involved with a brash young stockbroker (Alain Delon). A more formally innovative work than its predecessors.
The Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso; 1964, 116 min)
Red Desert sends Monica Vitti on a confused, blasted odyssey through a modern industrial wilderness. It is arguably Antonioni's most bold and ambitious film; a peerless study of existential dread, pulsating with lurid colours. “…an aesthetic feast…perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni’s entire career.” (Time Out)
Blow-Up (1966, 111 min)
Blow-Up, Antonioni's English-language debut, remains the archetypal Swinging 60s London thriller. David Hemmings is the modish photographer embroiled (possibly) in a murder plot, and yet nothing is quite as it seems in a film that taunts and teases the viewer. Significantly, Blow-Up climaxes with a mimed tennis match in which Hemming is lured into chasing after a lost "ball".
The Passenger (1975, 119 min)
The Passenger casts Jack Nicholson as a TV reporter who exchanges identity with a dead man and goes on the run, only to find himself hunted by his wife and some menacing strangers. Elegant and enigmatic, the film’s opening, charting the burnt-out journalist’s progress through an endless desert, and the final twenty minutes – including a virtuoso seven-minute single take – are stunning.
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film aesthetics. More than any other director, he encouraged filmmakers to explore elliptical and open-ended narrative.
This program features his most important works.
The Schedule
Sat 20 Oct
2.00pm - Il Grido (106 min)
4.00pm - L’Avventura (145 min)
6.30pm - L'Eclisse (125min)
Sun 21 Oct
2.00pm - La Notte (121 min)
4.15pm - Red Desert (116 min)
6.30pm - Blow-Up (111 min)
Mon 22 Oct
8.00pm - The Passenger (119min)
HELP Univ College Theatrette, Pusat Bandar Damansara, KL
Admission by membership, available at the door: RM60 1 year (students RM30); RM40 6 mths; RM30 4 mths
Free admission for Alliance Francaise members & HELP students
Enquiries: 012-2255136
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Il Grido (The Cry; 1957, 106 min)
Aldo, a factory worker, fails to persuade his long-time lover Irma to marry him, and leaves town with their daughter to wander all over the Po Valley. Unable to forget Irma, he returns home, only to find her now living in a new home with a baby. Deeply depressed, he mounts the high tower in his former workplace…Il Grido marks a return for Antonioni to working class stories, but it continues his exploration of social alienation. Not as widely praised as his next film L’Avventura, but some consider it a better film. Winner of the Golden Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival, and the association of Italian film critics’ Silver Ribbon for Best Cinematography (Gianni di Venanzo).
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L’Avventura (The Adventure; 1960, 145 min)
A girl vanishes from a group of bored and wealthy socialites on holiday, and her friends half-heartedly go in search of her. L'Avventura was Antonioni's international breakthrough, a classic study of an alienated Italian middle-class that made a star of the young Monica Vitti. Jeered by a startled audience at the 1960 Cannes film festival, it was later voted the second best movie ever made (after Citizen Kane).
La Notte (1961, 121 min)
The middle section of Antonioni’s trilogy on bourgeois alienation, La Notte covers 24 hours in the breakdown of a typical middle class marriage. Marcello Mastroianni is a novelist with a block, out of touch with his own instincts, while the wife (Jean Moreau) is a bored socialite who understands her own predicament but doesn’t know how to get past it.
L’Eclisse (The Eclipse; 1962, 125 min)
With L’Avventura and La Notte, this film completes Antonioni’s trilogy on doomed relationships in a fractured world. Lead actress Monica Vitti has a traumatic bust-up with a bookish man, and apathetically lets herself get involved with a brash young stockbroker (Alain Delon). A more formally innovative work than its predecessors.
The Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso; 1964, 116 min)
Red Desert sends Monica Vitti on a confused, blasted odyssey through a modern industrial wilderness. It is arguably Antonioni's most bold and ambitious film; a peerless study of existential dread, pulsating with lurid colours. “…an aesthetic feast…perhaps the most extraordinary and riveting film of Antonioni’s entire career.” (Time Out)
Blow-Up (1966, 111 min)
Blow-Up, Antonioni's English-language debut, remains the archetypal Swinging 60s London thriller. David Hemmings is the modish photographer embroiled (possibly) in a murder plot, and yet nothing is quite as it seems in a film that taunts and teases the viewer. Significantly, Blow-Up climaxes with a mimed tennis match in which Hemming is lured into chasing after a lost "ball".
The Passenger (1975, 119 min)
The Passenger casts Jack Nicholson as a TV reporter who exchanges identity with a dead man and goes on the run, only to find himself hunted by his wife and some menacing strangers. Elegant and enigmatic, the film’s opening, charting the burnt-out journalist’s progress through an endless desert, and the final twenty minutes – including a virtuoso seven-minute single take – are stunning.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Upcoming films
Michelangelo Antonioni Tribute 20-22 Oct:
El Grido
L’avventura
L'eclisse
La Notte
Red Desert
Blow-Up
The Passenger
Watch here for further updates!
El Grido
L’avventura
L'eclisse
La Notte
Red Desert
Blow-Up
The Passenger
Watch here for further updates!
Bangladesh Independent Cinema 1984-2007
A selection of fiction and documentary films presented by Dr Zakir Hossain Raju, Asian Research Fellow
Dr Raju is in Malaysia on an Asian Research Fellowship to study Malaysian cinema. He lectures on cinema at
the International University of Bangladesh. He obtained his PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne, where he
studied under Chris Berry.
Dir Zakir Hossain Raju; 24 min, video, 1991
An interactive documentary on the popular upheaval against the military junta in Bangladesh in 1990. It takes a close look at what happens in a family when the son has just been martyred. The film was shown at the Hawaiian International Film Festival 1991, Independent Short Film Festival Augsburg, Germany 1991, International Film Festival Fukuoka 1992, Festival of South Asian Documentaries, Colombo 1992 and Bangladesh Film Festival, London 2004.
Mon 1 Oct 8.15 pm
Beyond the Borders
Dir Zakir Hossain Raju; 58 min, video, 1995
A reflexive documentary on everyday traumas and triumphs of intercultural Bangladeshi-Japanese families in Japan and Bangladesh . The research and production of the film was funded by a Film Production Support Grant awarded by the Japan Foundation. Winner of a Commendation of the Jury Award at International Anthropological Film Festival Romania in 1996. The film was also featured in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995 and the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) film festival in Brisbane in 1995.
Mon 1 Oct 8.40 pm
Dir. Morshedul Islam; 70 min, 16mm, 1993
The film depicts the journey of two bullock-cart drivers through rural Bangladesh who were assigned to deliver a corpse to his village. Wherever they go, they face hostility from the villagers. They cannot find the village; what should they do with the corpse? A parable that mixes state violence with rural imagery, the film won the Grand Prix at the Dunkerque film festival in 1994 and also bagged three awards at the Mannheim film festival.
Mon 8 Oct 8.30 pm
A Tree without Roots
Dir Tanvir Mokammel; 106 min, 35mm, 2000
The film, based on a renowned novel of the same title, is set in rural East Bengal in the 1940s. It tells the story of a mullah (Muslim priest) who makes his way to fame and fortune by ‘inventing’ a shrine of a holy man in the corner of a village. An interesting look at the play between religion, power and sexuality against the backdrop of Muslim rural culture in South Asia . Winner of the Bangladesh national film award and was shown in the London Film Festival.
Mon 29 Oct 8.00pm
Dr Raju is in Malaysia on an Asian Research Fellowship to study Malaysian cinema. He lectures on cinema at
the International University of Bangladesh. He obtained his PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne, where he
studied under Chris Berry.
The Red FlowerFace in the Millions
Dir Makbul Chowdhury; 11 min, digital, 2006
A visually arresting film that recalls a young boy’s experience of circumcision in rural
Bangladesh , especially how he wanted
to avoid it. Shot in digital video, the film was shown in the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Shot by
Chowdhury himself, who also shot Zakir Hossain Raju’s Beyond the Borders.
Mon 1 Oct 8.00pm
Dir Zakir Hossain Raju; 24 min, video, 1991
An interactive documentary on the popular upheaval against the military junta in Bangladesh in 1990. It takes a close look at what happens in a family when the son has just been martyred. The film was shown at the Hawaiian International Film Festival 1991, Independent Short Film Festival Augsburg, Germany 1991, International Film Festival Fukuoka 1992, Festival of South Asian Documentaries, Colombo 1992 and Bangladesh Film Festival, London 2004.
Mon 1 Oct 8.15 pm
Beyond the Borders
Dir Zakir Hossain Raju; 58 min, video, 1995
A reflexive documentary on everyday traumas and triumphs of intercultural Bangladeshi-Japanese families in Japan and Bangladesh . The research and production of the film was funded by a Film Production Support Grant awarded by the Japan Foundation. Winner of a Commendation of the Jury Award at International Anthropological Film Festival Romania in 1996. The film was also featured in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995 and the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) film festival in Brisbane in 1995.
Mon 1 Oct 8.40 pm
TowardsThe Wheel
Dir Morshedul Islam; 30 min, 16mm, 1984
A film about the status of freedom fighters in post-independence
Bangladesh . It is the first film that started a new wave in
Bangladesh cinema, termed as ‘the short film movement’. The film won the Silver Peacock at the 1985
Delhi film festival and demonstrated the possibility of creating an independent cinema with 16 mm.
Mon 8 Oct 8.00 pm
Dir. Morshedul Islam; 70 min, 16mm, 1993
The film depicts the journey of two bullock-cart drivers through rural Bangladesh who were assigned to deliver a corpse to his village. Wherever they go, they face hostility from the villagers. They cannot find the village; what should they do with the corpse? A parable that mixes state violence with rural imagery, the film won the Grand Prix at the Dunkerque film festival in 1994 and also bagged three awards at the Mannheim film festival.
Mon 8 Oct 8.30 pm
A Tree without Roots
Dir Tanvir Mokammel; 106 min, 35mm, 2000
The film, based on a renowned novel of the same title, is set in rural East Bengal in the 1940s. It tells the story of a mullah (Muslim priest) who makes his way to fame and fortune by ‘inventing’ a shrine of a holy man in the corner of a village. An interesting look at the play between religion, power and sexuality against the backdrop of Muslim rural culture in South Asia . Winner of the Bangladesh national film award and was shown in the London Film Festival.
Mon 29 Oct 8.00pm
We are Moving
We are moving from tripod to blogger. We may or may not move the old content over here, depending on public response. However the old schedule will remain at tripod for those who are interested. Please check all new schedule here.
In this new platform, we hope to have a greater participation of film lovers of Malaysia. All are welcome to post comments, personal reviews, opinions, suggestions to each other here.
Have fun.
In this new platform, we hope to have a greater participation of film lovers of Malaysia. All are welcome to post comments, personal reviews, opinions, suggestions to each other here.
Have fun.
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