'Lolo & Sosaku' The Western Archive
Sound artists Lolo & Sosaku become modern cowboys rummaging for sounds in the desert’s vastness.
66'
Spain
IFFR 2024
After her long-unseen uncle mysteriously turns up one night at her food truck in Kuala Lumpur, Bonnie drives home to her semi-estranged father in a village up north. With a sudden lockdown preventing her return, she is forced to spend the night at the family-owned café, where she encounters the ghosts of those dearly departed gathering around for a scrumptious meal.
The dead and the living are connected through their stomachs in We Jun Cho’s heartwarming food-centric dramedy, Hungry Ghost Diner, set among the Malaysian Chinese community during the weeks preceding the Hungry Ghost Festival. The film finds a unique tone for its subject, poised between bittersweet family drama, surreal fantasy and matter-of-fact horror, but always leaning on the side of levity. This is a work in which musical numbers rub shoulders with resplendent puppet shows and stately religious ceremonies.
With its vibrant, expressive cinematography, propulsive score and an endearing, doe-eyed lead performance by singer Keat Yoke Chen, Hungry Ghost Diner tells an entertaining and universal story of reconnecting with one’s family.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
IFFR 2024
Programme IFFR 2024
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Read more about this programmeSound artists Lolo & Sosaku become modern cowboys rummaging for sounds in the desert’s vastness.
66'
Spain
IFFR 2024
A candid grassroots record of the non-violent protests against India’s controversial farm laws.
151'
India
IFFR 2024
Kung Fu masters, slingshot gangs and French mercenaries battle it out in a vigorous actioner.
108'
China
IFFR 2024