本單元雖是紀錄片影展的焦點,但有許多劇情片摻雜其中;而作為東南亞專題,不少國家及影人在此缺席,這些都是刻意為之。選映的片單質量皆豐,每一部都是高度原創的一時之選,包含幾部預料之外的驚喜之作,有首映作品,也有難得一見的時代經典。
 

這些電影皆透露出善感敏銳的個人眼光,關注孕育出這些創作的國家,深入人民的記憶與希望。單元雖以憂傷為名,但並不代表這些作品都有著讓人落淚的悲情,而是為了標記創作中面對真實毫不迴避的誠摯想法與感情。這些影片會齊聚在此,一來因為它們都是好電影,二來是透過這些作品,你將會看到世界上幾個最神秘國家的真實。

 

策展人:葛江.祝鴻

 

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The Purple Kingdom

Political films can also be very beautiful as it is proven here. A tribal woman of the suppressed Karen mountain people is looking for her disappeared husband. Clearly the authorities had a hand in that, but it feels like mysterious forces had a hand in that. A political fairy tale.

Prelude to the General

A very carefully-made and stylised short movie about carrying a secret. Careful in form, but also careful in its message. In a country like present-day Thailand, where the generals are all powerful, you can not be careful enough. An older and a younger woman meet in a mysterious place full of history.

The Return

This short movie that is maybe not a documentary is made by the filmmaker in memory of the extrajudicial killing of young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom PASAE. She knew the young Lahu boy through a workshop she gave some years before he was killed. A tribute to a young aspiring filmmaker and his Lahu language and culture.

No'I

A young Belgium film student discovers the hidden miracles of Hanoi, Vietnam. Since she did not speak the language, the film is mainly about looking – very careful and intense looking, with a visual poetry as result. It shows the beauty of decay and survival in a small street that is in fact a railway.

Old Thoughts in Tattered Paper

A very personal and atmospheric film. The filmmaker plays a moody writer herself in images that are as moody. The writer is haunted and disturbed, but anyway writes a strong poem for a film that has dark images that are as strong. A movie by a woman with many talents. A loud inner voice.

Recurrencia

A dark experimental war movie though the war has been long gone. A woman lives and re-lives the memories day after day. Again and again her memories bring her back to the Manila Massacre by Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II. A sensual song about cruelty.

Coconut

A short movie with two images that are shown parallel. Originally the film was made as an art installation, with one screen showing tourist footage from Myanmar and the other more documentary images from a Thai factory that makes coconut fibres. In the factory the hard work is done by Burmese immigrants.

Orphan

Orphan is a one-woman production and has in fact not really a cast unless you want to count children’s dolls and action figures as actors, which in fact are in this movie. It is a puppet movie but not of the sweet children’s story kind. It is a children’s movie, but of death and violence.

No One is Illegal

Bendera, an Indonesian nationalist group, is angry with Malaysia. The leader has asked to declare war on Malaysia. This can happen for real in Indonesia (or Malaysia) that somebody says we should go at war with the other country. The filmmaker took it seriously (or does he?) and goes to talk with a war monger.

Trespassed

After her father goes missing during a hunting trip, a perfectly healthy young girl begins to have epileptic fits as if she's possessed. Her mother can't find any medical help to cure her. The girl appears in her mother's dream and reveals a possible solution to her suffering.

Focus Programme: SEA of Sadness

For a programme in a documentary festival, this may have quite some fiction films. For a programme on Southeast Asian cinema, there are a few countries missing and maybe some filmmakers too. It’s all on purpose and it’s all of high quality and originality. There are brand new films that nobody has seen and older films that will be new for the younger generation of viewers.

 

All the films are sensitive and personal and go deep into the memories and hopes of the people in the countries they are made in. The sadness of the title does not mean it’s all to cry about, but that the films are made with true and sincere ideas and feelings. First of all, these films are good films; second of all, they tell you the real thing about some of the more mysterious countries on the planet.

 

Curator: Gertjan ZUILHOF

 

Films

AKU

AKU

2016
Malaysia
5min
何宇恆
HO Yuhang

Alipato: the Very Brief Life of an Ember

Alipato: the Very Brief Life of an Ember

2016
Philippines
88min
卡文
Khavn DE LA CRUZ

All is Forgiven for We Have Been Happy

All is Forgiven for We Have Been Happy

2017
Indonesia
86min
凱蒂雅.安格兒,保羅.奧古斯塔
Katia ENGEL,Paul AGUSTA

As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

2007
Malaysia
11min
何宇恆
HO Yuhang

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

2008
Indonesia
77min
艾德溫
Edwin

Blood Amber

Blood Amber

2017
Taiwan
96min
李永超
LEE Yong-chao

Bunohan: Return to Murder

Bunohan: Return to Murder

2011
Malaysia
98min
戴恩.薩伊德
Dain SAID

Burma Story Book

Burma Story Book

2017
Netherlands, Norway
81min
佩特.洛姆,柯芮安.范. 艾赫拉特
Petr LOM,Corinne VAN EGERAAT

Coconut

Coconut

2015
Thailand
阿諾查.蘇維查康彭
Anocha SUWICHAKORNPONG

Cuts

Cuts

2016
Indonesia
70min
柴魯恩.尼薩
Chairun NISSA

Dry Season in My House

Dry Season in My House

2017
Indonesia
2min
韋加斯.邦努德加
Wregas BHANUTEJA

Evolution of a Filipino Family

Evolution of a Filipino Family

2004
Philippines
640min
拉夫.迪亞茲
Lav DIAZ

Green Rocking Chair

Green Rocking Chair

2008
Philippines
59min
羅克斯李
Roxlee

Heaven for Insanity

Heaven for Insanity

2008
Indonesia
32min
德莉雅.索埃托莫
Dria SOETOMO

Homogeneous, Empty Time

Homogeneous, Empty Time

2017
Germany, Thailand
103min
敦斯卡.彭西迪佛拉高,哈瑞特.斯瑞豪
Thunska PANSITTIVORAKUL, Harit SRIKHAO

Hortus

Hortus

2014
Indonesia, Netherlands
9min
艾德溫
Edwin

Manila Scream

Manila Scream

2016
Philippines
19min
羅克斯李,布雷爾.卡密洛,鮑柏.馬卡本塔
Roxlee, Blair CAMILO, Bob MACABENTA

Masked Monkey - the Evolution of Darwin's Theory

Masked Monkey - the Evolution of Darwin's Theory

2014
Indonesia
110min
伊斯麥.法米.盧比思
Ismail Fahmi LUBIS

No One is Illegal

No One is Illegal

2011
Malaysia
30min
何宇恆
HO Yuhang

No'I

No'I

2016
Belgium, Vietnam
22min
亞琳.瑪格黑
Aline MAGREZ

Notes from Unknown Maladies

Notes from Unknown Maladies

2017
Philippines
62min
里瑞克.德拉克魯茲
Liryc DELA CRUZ

Old Thoughts in Tattered Paper

Old Thoughts in Tattered Paper

2018
Philippines
5min
米娜.克魯茲
Mina CRUZ

Open Verdict (Quattro Hong Kong 2)

Open Verdict (Quattro Hong Kong 2)

2011
Malaysia
21min
何宇恆
HO Yuhang

Orphan

Orphan

2017
Philippines
3min
安娜.伊莎貝拉.瑪圖緹娜
Anna Isabelle MATUTINA

Prelude to the General

Prelude to the General

2016
Thailand
11min
萍帕卡.托維拉
Pimpaka TOWIRA

Railway Sleepers

Railway Sleepers

2016
Thailand
102min
薩波.齊嘉索潘
Sompot CHIDGASORNPONGSE

Recurrencia

Recurrencia

2016
Philippines
9min
米娜.克魯茲
Mina CRUZ

Tarling Is Darling

Tarling Is Darling

2017
Indonesia
114min
伊斯麥.法米.盧比思
Ismail Fahmi LUBIS

The Monk

The Monk

2014
Myanmar
93min
帖莫奈
The Maw Naing

The Purple Kingdom

The Purple Kingdom

2016
Thailand
31min
萍帕卡.托維拉
Pimpaka TOWIRA

The Return

The Return

2017
Thailand
5min
萍帕卡.托維拉
Pimpaka TOWIRA

Trespassed

Trespassed

2015
Malaysia
32min
何宇恆
HO Yuhang

What They Don't Talk about When They Talk about Love

What They Don't Talk about When They Talk about Love

2013
Indonesia
104min
莫莉.蘇利亞
Mouly SURYA

Year Without a Summer

Year Without a Summer

2010
Malaysia
87min
陳翠梅
TAN Chui-Mui

Yours Trolley

Yours Trolley

2017
Philippines
25min
羅克斯李,布雷爾.卡密洛,鮑柏.馬卡本塔
Roxlee, Blair CAMILO, Bob MACABENTA
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