Discoveries from Malaysia World Cinema

When Neelakandan needs a drink, he will get it no matter what. The short film follows his struggle of trying to score some alcohol amidst the MCO in Malaysia due to the recent outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.

Elated at the thought of being spoiled, Mona couldn't help but explode with joy and excitement. A young man made her a promise that he swore to keep- he would give her everything that she desired.

Tells the story of a group of female students who face various mystical disturbances until a hidden secret is unraveled after 100 days. What is the mystery?

In 2001, divorce sent by text message was legalised in Malaysia. This is the story of how one woman, ANA (Lisa Surihani) on the brink of joining her husband abroad, receives one such text message and has to deal with the sudden shock.

Ropie successfully captured the ghost that was disturbing Kampung Lenggong, leading to his appointment as the village chief, defeating his rival, Tok Jidin. However, suddenly, an entity resembling Ropie appeared, causing chaos in the village and disturbing Ropie's family.

A man with an ambition to serve his country is facing a dilemma of his romantic relationship.

A man realises his wife has gone missing during their honeymoon in a resort. He asks the receptionist if he has seen ger, but she hasn’t. In fact, she has never seen his wife at all, as he checked in alone.

A wedding comedy story of Farel with his wives, Intan and Bella.

A man who mourns the murder of his daughter has the ability to travel back in time but there's a catch...he can't change the outcome of his own timeline and he can only travel to a very specific moment in time.

Sofi and Mizan's travel plans to return to the village are delayed, when Debunk fans challenge Sofi to prove that the devil's ghost is bound before Ramadan. In order to prove the truth of his words, Mizan invited Sofi to the North Mega Hospital and Sofi was definitely not to be challenged! Sofi's arrival at the Utara Mega Hospital accidentally invites Edna who has been lonely there for a long time, and really wants to feel the Hari Raya atmosphere in the village. Secretly, Edna finally gave Sofi and Mizan a ride to the village. Sofi's Hari Raya turns into chaos when Edna plans to make Sofi's Hari Raya even more fun for the family!

This follow-up to 2017's "A Rainbow's End" tells the true story of seven HIV-Positive youths, aged from 8 to 16 years old, who live at the Rumah Jaireh foster home in Batu Arang. Due to the stigma attached to HIV, these children are abandoned, abused and shamed despite suffering from the illness through no fault of their own. The movie aims to fight for their right to receive a proper formal education and to educate the masses that these youths future lies in everyone's hands.

Based on the real-life events of Ops Kota Gubir I and II, where security teams from the 17 RAMD unit have ambushed several communist camps at the border of Thai-Malaysia, near Gubir, Kedah.

Mat lives on Ghost Island and is an amateur magician who always makes mistakes in all his performances. One day at sea, he meets a troupe led by a famous American magician, John Calvert, and invites them to perform at the birthday party for the King of Ghost Island.

This film is tells of an express bus company that consist man an woman. Hairani heading to the same destination as bus driven by Pie and Maidin. They ask her to join them to the destination. They found out that Hairani didn't have a job so they offer her a job as a Bus Conductor with them.

A phone scammer is in a moral dilemma as she tricks her family in order to get money for her abortion.

Kyaw Kyaw, a 25-year-old Burmese Punk, obsessively tries to develop the Punk scene in Myanmar. Although the former military dictatorship has experienced a number of democratic reforms, Kyaw Kyaw remains skeptical. Together with his punk band, Kyaw Kyaw raises awareness for the continuing violation of human rights.

Naeem, a Bangladeshi migrant worker employed as a street sweeper, initially feels fearful and keeps his distance from the locals. However, his encounter with Zainab, a 20-year-old local woman living on the streets, slowly captures his attention. As their bond deepens, Naeem finds himself navigating unfamiliar emotions in a city that remains distant and indifferent.

A famous tick tok artist has been murdered brutally recently by a unknown masked person. Detective vasundra and her team gets in action to track down the killer. Will they succeed?

A struggling makeup artist finally lands a job only to find that its not makeup for the living.

An homage to the difficult paths we must walk on to get to our dreams.

Set in a Malaysia National Service Camp, the film examines the sentiments of a female Chinese trainee as she is delegated to lead her multiracial female comrades against the backdrop of Malay-Muslim traditions.

Their initially tense relationship turns into a close one, until feelings of love arise. However, everything becomes complicated when Rumi finds out Mira's true status.

A beloved horror actress questions the triviality of her career starring in Pontianak films, all the while being filmed by a group of documentary filmmakers.

The rain never stops. She's trapped in a damp, rotting house—how long, she no longer knows. Rain fills her mouth, echoes in her dreams, and becomes her only voice. When she finds a page drawn with strange flowers, she begins to believe: the rain speaks. It speaks of death. Of rebirth. Through storm and mud, she runs - chased by silence, hunger, and memory. Rain hides her footsteps. Rain carries her whispers. This is a whisper in the rain - a captive girl’s secret dialogue with the world, with nature, and with herself.

Karthi, a disgruntled assistant on commercial productions, is working on an honest, personal film script, but his project is without industry backers. In the dispiriting pursuit of his dream, he loses his love and sinks into alcoholism, until he meets a kindred spirit adrift in the world.

Johan is illegal selling Cd man suddenly he founds porno but oh no the ghost of the porno haunts him.Beto is police

Elis suffers a miscarriage and undergoes a process of abstinence following Malay tradition, but things take a dark turn when her maid accidentally reveals the secret Elis has been hiding.

When Yue moves into her new family, she finds out that her stepsister, Aini, is friends with a being from Europa, whom she contacts through a radio.

This social drama is set in a working class Singaporean Tamil family. With gangsters at his doorstep and drug addicts for parents, 17-year old Prakash struggles to hold his family together and protect his mentally-challenged brother from dangers in and outside the family. When his family is implicated in a crime gone sour, Prakash's resolve and courage are put to the ultimate test.

A mysterious series of supernatural disturbances begins to haunt a small community, leading to the revelation of an ancient Malay curse involving the legendary Penanggal — a flying female spirit that detaches her head and organs to prey on victims at night. As dark secrets slowly unravel, the truth behind the haunting forces the characters to confront forbidden knowledge, black magic, and terrifying consequences.

An ustaz is ashamed of his father's business, a 'bundle' shop near the alley of immorality, and is worried that it will affect his reputation.

When a bandar girl meets a kampung boy, suddenly her stay in her hometown isn't as daunting as she thought it would be.

Mahadi and Marliah have been friends since they were little. When they become adults, they want to get married but often Musa gets in the way.

The story of the lives of 3 girls in the same house who begin to change after they find a baby who was abandoned by someone.

JAGA, led by Sel and his two officers, is a government unit managing the coexistence of the supernatural and humans. Jackie, a reporter, records their activities for rakyat approval. But Sel’s ethical boundaries are tested, when they confront a Sundel Bolong.

Two sisters seeking revenge for the murder of their sisters, Isabel. As the story progresses, the sisters learned something from the criminal involved in the murder as one of them confesses.

Two brothers become separated when Southeast Asia submerges. Both struggling to survive as immigrants in a foreign country, the two finally unite, but under grim circumstances.

In a mist-shrouded swamp, Raaja, a quiet, introspective boy, captures a red Siamese fighting fish with his friend Gila, a curious chatterbox. What begins as a simple act of fascination turns into a haunting meditation on life and the bonds between living beings. Raaja learns from an old bird keeper, Pak Tok, that every living thing we hold becomes our responsibility, its life, its fate, its death. When Raaja’s care turns to obsession and the fish dies, he confronts the painful truth about love, loss, and letting go. Set against a haunting natural landscape, Sayap is a poetic tale of innocence, mortality, and the delicate balance between human hands and the wild soul of nature.

Transitioning into womanhood without a mother, a 21-year-old woman looks through her late mother's old belongings to capture the last drop of warmth she left for her.

"The Penthouse" is a psychological thriller that follows Saina and David, a young family who moves into a luxurious penthouse in Kuala Lumpur to start a new life.

It tells the story of three siblings namely Jep, Shuib and Mamat who lost their parents. Yet despite the absence of the parents, they are left with a secret will. They live life like ordinary village teenagers. It is difficult and easy to go through together until the time when the will can be read by them. Apparently, the three siblings will get a lot of property left by their parents but they must comply with the conditions set through the will. They have to go to town to find someone.

Dr Eddy, Dr Suzana, Luthya dan Vanessa have arrived in Kampung Parit Polong to investigate and solve the mystery of the curse that has befallen the village. The curse is causing and making one by one of the villagers kill themselves by suicide. They suspect that it is the curse by an old bomoh (shaman) who was wrongly accused by the villagers in the past, and they must find out how to break the curse. However, Suzana also has a reason to be there for her younger sibling was kidnapped and lost in the village years ago. Directed by Javerd Nizar, this movie is a joint Malaysian-Indonesian collaboration.

Mina, (also known as aminah jenin) constantly day dreams about rahman, a new transfer student. Mina needs to gather her confidence to talk to rahman, rather than just daydreaming about him, because sometimes, it's your imagination that is in your way to achieving your goals.

Arman tells the story of a young man, a successful ship owner's son, and will be married with a model Nia. Nia is a strong attack her babbling and hot-tempered. Arman is in the interest of many girls. until a girl came to her home claiming to be his son. Who is the girl?

What would an outcast do to be accepted by the mainstream? Would it be mimicking appearances, or perhaps imitating language? Maybe even helping to cover up a murder, just to gain the slightest chance to be heard? However, what if, despite all these efforts, she is still rejected? – Xige Yi

The sight of a mysterious woman, always dressed in beautiful traditional dress and living in an old Malay village house is bringing curiosity among the passersby, especially the ones that know about the legend of Cerana Biduk.

Eight members of a student drama club try to make a movie before they graduate, but can their friendship survive their ambitions?

”Tiga suku”, which literally translates into “three quarters”, is a Malay term used in the context of describing crazy, whacky or oddball-like behaviour; of being mentally “not quite there”. And “Mat Tiga Suku” is indeed an eccentric film that seeks to subvert our usual sense of logic, decorum and good taste. In this film, Mat Sentul is a poor and helpless man, lives in a house that talks to him, and daydreams about wealth and pretty princesses. It is an episodic adventure that follows the slapstick antics of Mat Sentul who, among many pranks, moves the bus-stop at his will, halts an aeroplane that does not give way, and pretends to be an office worker, a barber and a doctor.

An exploration of the human psyche, Blue takes the viewer on a journey alongside its main character, through the mundanity of life itself, while he discovers his identity while his heart and his mind feels so Blue. A tour de force from debut filmmaker and author Sameer Monn, Blue is a study on the struggles, on the hopelessness of depression, the edge of the cliff, and the power of the human heart to persevere, grow and heal from our darkest days.

Frankie lives at home with his grandma while his peers go off to school. When a Government notice arrives one day announcing land reform of his village, Frankie is unable to read it. Too proud to ask his best friend Gamat for help, he spirals into rage and later, regret. Bagan tells the story of the final days of a dying village, told through the eyes of a pair of adolescents; when innocence clashes with the harsh reality of growing up and moving on.

A story about a careless mother and her lonely, insecure daughter. Eighteen year old Faye is always on the edge because of her mother's boyfriends. Her mother survives by running a beauty shop. Since there are only the two of them, they are very close and are at times like friends or sisters, but to Faye, her carefree mother is also like a child she needs to watch after. She is also plagued by rumors about her and her mother. Her anger reaches its limit when she learns that her mother is pregnant. Sadly, she can't do anything but endure reality and hope to escape her dull and depressing life.

An old man lives alone, his days are slow and filled with simple routines. One evening, he places empty buckets outside the house. In the stillness of the night, something arrives softly.

Two couples who go on a rest retreat to a country house find that they are the targets of a supernatural force, and have to fight hard for their survival.

On her way home from work, Keen encounters a mysterious woman from “somewhere far away” in the midnight bus, who reveals to her that she is on a one-day trip to visit her family who she has not seen for a long time. As Keen finds out more about the mysterious woman in the bus, she reflects on familial values and the meaning of separation.

Ammar, a college student, is obsessed with learning about the supernatural though he isn't much of a believer of ghosts and tricksters. He convinces his friends Johan, Keena, Aida, Hezry, Faizal, Tom and Farhan to travel with him to Penunggu Island to stay in one of the old and abandoned bungalows rumoured to be haunted.