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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Tan Chui Mui

TAN Chui Mui (1978, Malaysia) has worked as a columnist for local newspapers and magazines. She directed a number of short films, before making her feature film debut Love Conquers All in 2006, which won a Tiger Award. Her work is characterised by a poetic style, which she uses to depict stories about personal growth. She has had the honour of being a jury member for various festivals, including Rotterdam. Tan Chui also works as a producer for Malaysian independent filmmakers. Barbarian Invasion was selected for IFFR 2022.

Filmography

(selection) There Is Treasure Everywhere (1999, short), Living Elsewhere (2002, short), Hometown (2003, short), 3R (2004, short), A Tree in Tanjung Malim (2004, short), South of South (2005, short), Company of Mushrooms (2006, short), Ai qing zhang sheng yi qie/Love Conquers All (2006), Nobody’s Girlfriend (2007, short), All My Failed Attempts (2009, short), 15Malaysia (2009, omnibus film), No Woman Born (2010, short), Sarah and Omelga (2010, short doc), Year Without a Summer (2010), Survival Guide untuk Kampong Radioaktif/Survival Guide for Radioactive Village (2011, short, co-dir), Letters from the South (2013, short, co-dir), Barbarian Invasion (2021)

More info: Wikipedia, Tan Chui Mui

Tan Chui Mui at IFFR

  • Year Without a Summer

    A sensitive film, constructed as ebb and flow. In the first part, old friends look back on their childhood by the light of the moon. In the second par

    • Hubert Bals Fund

  • Sarah and Omelga

    Tan Chui Mui shot a short science-fiction film in South Africa (see No Woman Born). In that way she got to know the film makers of Durban. In her own

  • Before We Fall in Love Again

    Chang’s wife has disappeared and no one knows where she went. After a while, Tong drops by. He was her lover, but doesn’t know where she is either. In

    • Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang

  • The Elephant and the Sea

    An elephant has disappeared and its owner must live without it. The sea has withdrawn again, but the after-effects are tangible and visible. The inhab

    • Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang

  • Love Conquers All

    Sensitive and unspoken mood sketch of the inner world of a young woman who falls into the hands of a big-city lover who turns out to be a pimp in Kual

    • VPRO Tiger Awards Competition

  • Company of Mushrooms

    Four friends meet up in a pizza restaurant. They didn’t come for the pizzas. And they don’t really seem to be friends. Maybe they were once. Or how be

    • Short: Asian Hot Houses

  • Majidee

    A man is approached on his way to the station. He does not shake off the chatterbox, but lets him walk along. Surely he can’t believe him?

    • Short: Asian Hot Houses

  • 1979

    All on his own, a man come to terms with news that is much too much. Very meticulously dressed and filmed. A minor masterpiece.

    • Short: Asian Hot Houses

  • It’s Possible Your Heart Can Not Be Broken

    A film maker practices making a comedy. Two other film makers practise being comedians. And they’re not bad either.

    • Short: Asian Hot Houses

  • Flower

    Old woman falls for young soldier. Real or not. Nostalgic fantasy or not. It all gets pretty cheerful. With the film maker as the soldier.

    • Short: Asian Hot Houses