Edmund Yeo
Filmography
Edmund Yeo at IFFR
Blue Roof
A playful film that does not only play with colour and vertigo, but also with expectations.
15'
Malaysia
IFFR 2008
Woman on Fire Looks for Water
Father and son wrestle with love in a small Malaysian fishing village. While father looks up an old lover he should have married years ago, his son faces a dilemma. Will he choose the girl he's in love with, or the daughter of his boss?
99'
Malaysia
IFFR 2010
Exhalation
'How do you cope with loss?', the filmmaker wonders, whilst studying its meaning to others.
22'
Japan
IFFR 2011
The Tiger Factory
The maker was too honest in an interview: he made the film really quickly. Too quickly, said the critics. An easy target. But the film was made at the speed of real life and with real emotions. A girl becomes the victim of illegal insemination. Like a pig.
84'
Malaysia
IFFR 2011
Girl in the Water
A film featuring real fishermen, a real young mother and a story as real as a hallucination.
19'
Denmark
IFFR 2012
Last Fragments of Winter
A Malaysian film student travels to Japan to study and is amazed by many things. About a girl in the snow, for instance.
24'
Malaysia
IFFR 2012
Floating Sun
Director’s cut of a short film that was part of a horror trilogy. More atmosphere than horror. Girls with long black hair and wafting net curtains.
21'
Malaysia
IFFR 2014
River of Exploding Durians
In commercials, Malaysia is heaven on earth. Palm trees, white beaches and clear blue seas. In that same country, an extremely polluting factory has been built on the coast. As a result, the romantic and unpolitical life at a local secondary school changes drastically. A contemporary environmental story.
128'
Malaysia
IFFR 2015
The Second Life of Thieves
In a small fishing village in Malaysia, it’s not easy to keep anything hidden. Yet the village chief has kept a great secret throughout his life: he had a relationship with a man who disappeared one day. The village chief then starts a quest that brings back many events from the past.
87'
Malaysia
IFFR 2015