The New World

Country
Malaysia
Production Year
2021
Running Time
Genre
MOCKUMENTARY, FANTASTIC, EXPERIMENTAL

Synopsis

This is the story of a man who decided to build another world. His new world. That man was his father, and this is the story of his dream and how his mother and himself were carried away with it.


Schedule

Bioskop Date Time
Kineforum Taman Ismail Marzuki Sunday, October 16 2022 Teater Sjuman Djaya - 15.35

Director

Gwai Lou & Annabel Tiu
Gwai Lou (⻤佬) means “Foreign devil”, it is common Cantonese slang for Westerners. Now it is what she calls herself. Last year she won the Jakarta Global Short Competition, Jakarta Film Week with her short film The Girls Are Alright.

Annabel Tiu was born in Malaysia, in 1982. She is a mixed ethnicity (indigenous Kadazan and Chinese Filipino) Malaysian filmmaker and musician. She is a trilingual (English, Mandarin Chinese, and Malay) and it has shaped the way she understands the world and the kind of films she is interested in making.