15Malaysia
Yasmin Ahmad is one of the directors who made a short film for the project 15Malaysia. She died last year of a brain haemorrhage. In memory of Ahmad, this compilation of fifteen films includes a ‘making of’ her film Chocolate, which is a clear commentary on the racial segregation developing in Malaysia. Just like Ahmad, fourteen other exponents of Malaysia’s New (or No) Wave film generation provide their vision of present-day society in a few minutes.
That results in a varied selection, both in form – varying from documentary to stylised montage of black-and-white photos – and in substance: from a humorous manual for halal slaughter to contemplation on a future Big Brother society in which everyone is in a different family each day.
Film details
- Country of production
- Malaysia
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 85"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
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