DATE | COUNTRY | FILM |
MONDAY, 22/04/2024 | THAILAND | A Time to Fly |
Time: 1800 - 2100 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Inspired by a true story of young Mong Thongdee, a boy hailing from the rural mountains of northern Thailand, unexpectedly wins a local paper plane tournament. Now a member of Thailand’s national team, he has the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Japan and take part in an international paper plane competition. But he faces one major obstacle: he is stateless. Bearing no citizenship to his name, leaving the country becomes one of Mong’s mere fantasies. Alongside with his teachers, lawyers, journalists as well as the Thai public calls for its birthright laws to make his dreams a reality…before it’s too late. |
TUESDAY, 23/04/2024 | PHILIPPINES | Water Lemon |
Time: 1900 - 2100 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Water Lemon is set in the coastal town of Mauban, Quezon, where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, a socially handicapped genius, and a helpless grandfather interconnect to create bumps in their flatline lives. |
WEDNESDAY, | MYANMAR | Mystery of Snow |
24-Apr-24 | Duration:2 hr 15 mins |
Time: 1300 - 1500 HRS | In "Mystery of Snow," Okkar, a tourist guide in Myanmar, discovers old photos of his father, sparking a journey to uncover his mysterious death on Hkakabo Razi. Along the way, he meets a girl but prioritizes his quest. With the help of U Phay Ran and his son, Okkar finds his father's frozen body but faces peril as a storm approaches. Despite setbacks, Okkar learns to forgive and finds solace with Phone Tee Ran's family. |
WEDNESDAY, 24/04/2024 | BRUNEI | Yasmine |
Time: 1530 - 1730 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Set in modern Brunei, Yasmine tells the coming-of-age story of a high school girl who learns the local martial art of Silat. Despite her father's disapproval and her school's underdog Silat club, Yasmine decides to take matters in her own hands and start leading the team. |
WEDNESDAY, 24/04/2024 | CAMBODIA | When Mom Gets Old |
Time: 1800 - 2100 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 42 mins |
| When mom gets old, she starts to over complain, and recite the same things more often which bothers her children. That is when it causes upset between mom and children, the fighting back and forth, the argument between the old and new viewpoints; which takes place every time, everywhere, and in almost every family. "When Mom Gets Old" this movie will narrate the lives of 4 moms along with problems that happen in their family, which has similarities to what happens in society. |
FRIDAY, 26/04/2024 | VIET NAM | Story of Pao |
Time: 1800 - 2100 HRS | Duration : 1 hr 38 mins |
| Story of Pao (2006) is one of the most classic films of Viet Nam that told the life and the culture of the ethnic people. A poetic movie, yet is still realistic. The movie describes the eagerness to be free and happy through the cultural life of the ethnic minority. It won 4 Golden Kite Awards and 1 Special Asia Pacific Screen Awards. |
SATURDAY, 27/04/2024 | SINGAPORE | Ajoomma |
Time: 1200 - 1400 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 30 mins |
| A widowed Singaporean housewife obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life and finds more than she bargained for in Seoul. The film garnered four nominations at the 59th Golden Horse Awards and premiered at the 2022 Busan International Film Festival. It is the first official Singaporean-South Korean co-production, and was mostly shot in South Korea. |
SATURDAY, 27/04/2024 | MALAYSIA | Ola Bola |
Time: 1415 - 1615 HRS | Duration : 1 hr 53 mins |
| Set in the 1980s during tumultuous economic times, Ola Bola is about an unlikely team of footballers whose disagreements have left them with a streak of embarrassing losses. Personal issues have caused each of them to crack under pressure while the team slowly falls apart. They have only one chance left for international glory, and this multicultural team has to find it in their hearts to overcome their individual odds and unite for the sake of an entire country. But unknown to them, their greatest test is yet to come, one that will make or break their fighting spirit and the nation's hopes and aspirations. |
SATURDAY, 27/04/2024 | LAO PDR | The Signal |
Time:1630 - 1830 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 39 mins |
A country girl comes to the city in search of her father, but secrets and mysteries will force her to re-evaluate when a family needs to stay together and when it needs to let go. |
SATURDAY, 27/04/2024 | INDONESIA | The Jungle School |
Time: 1845 - 2045 HRS | Duration: 1 hr 30 mins |
This film follows Time Magazine’s 2004 “Hero of Asia” Butet Manurung’s (Prisia Nasution) journey from anthropologist to educator to activist as she works with the indigenous forest people (Orang Rimba) who live upstream the Makekal river in the forest of Bukit Duabelas of Jambi, Sumatera, Indonesia. |