19TH MINDANAO FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION
Aparat
Six teenage boys in a remote village decide to work in the village cages to rent an 8mm projector from a tour guide in order to raise the money they need to rent a projector.
Starring Actors: Mehdi Gholizadeh, Emad Mohebi, Ebrahim Najmabadi
Director: Hasan Najmabadi
Genre: Childrens
Place of Origin: Iran
Dusk
Monotony in the life of a young Nepalese sex worker breaks when she goes out with her intimate client. After the sunset, while sitting on the riverbank, the young woman realizes that her freedom is transient.
Starring Actors: Pansy Brahma, Manoj Kar
Director: Ujjal Paul
Genre: Drama, Romance
Place of Origin: India
The Age of Remembrance
Film is about ode for my grandfather’s historical narratives on Indonesian people’s movement in Malaysia which left behind the official history
Starring Actors: Sazkia Noor Anggraini
Director: Sazkia Noor Anggraini
Genre: Documentary
Place of Origin: Indonesia
Berlabuh (Anchoring)
Through film harbour the director want to explore and try to share some of the problems that exist around the seafer’s environment, but that is vary rarely known by the general public.
Starring Actors: Bimantara, Aisah, Rijal
Director: Haris Yuliyanto
Genre: Drama
Place of Origin: Indonesia
Dear Father
“Dear Father” is an experimental documentary, base on the theory of Generation Loss. It explores the memories between a father and son through voice mails,unwritten letters and photographs of them together.
Starring Actors: Barney Lim Jia Chang, Lim Seng Kee
Director: Jonathan Lee, Pak Sun Man, Ung Hei Ling, Goh Shi Hoong, Khaedchsark Siri Songkram
Genre: Slice of life
Place of Origin: Malaysia
Lichens
The movie is used as a love letter which is sent to Chiang Mai.The movie also represent the idea of Zen – there is connectionbetween everything in the universe and they cannot be seperated.
Starring Actors: Sutarath Sinnong, Nattawut Apiwannarat
Director: Karan Wongprakarnsanti
Genre: Drama
Place of Origin: Thailand
Inheritance
Sibilings gathered for their mother’s 91st birthday but the prime motive of the gathering relates to their mother’s property. In the meantime, the mother goes down her memory lane reflecting on their childhood innocence. The conversation turns into a bitter quarrel and they are blissfully unaware of what they truly inherit.
Starring Actors: Irangani Serasingha, Nisman Ranasingha, Kumudu Kumarasingha, Amil Galanga, Nadeeka Bandara, Prem Jayantha Kapuge, Uma Karandagolla, Swetha Nithyanjali, Illawarasu Lakshika, Dulsara Thajith
Director: Lanka Bandaranayake
Genre: Narrative Drama
Place of Origin: Sri Lanka
My Grandmother is an Egg
My grandmother was a T’ung-yang-hsi. It is a traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. The audiences may glimpse the long past, imagine women’s situation in our own times, and strive for gender equality in the future.
Starring Actors: Yu-Lin Chang, Yu-Chin Chang, Yu-Jan Chang, Yung-Yu Chang, Yu-Hsia Chang
Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Genre: Animation
Place of Origin: Taiwan
Family Photo
Film that feels like a photo, static and slow. The story flows through the actors, making the film stiff and unfamiliar, like a world of memories flashing through the director’s mind.
Starring Actors: Candra Irawan, Dhebora Krisnowati, Rendra Sasongko Adi, Muslimaturrosyidah
Sali, Ahmad Yusuffaz, Miftachul Choir, Ari Kurnia
Director: Maulana Arga
Genre: Drama
Place of Origin: Indonesia
The Traditional Brazillian Family KATU
Los guardianes nativos el bosque en resistencia al capitalismo agroempresarial opresivo
Starring Actors: Indigenas Potiguaras Kat Rn Brasil
Director: Rodrigo Sena
Place of Origin: Brazil