Title: Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka

Director: Fahmi Reza
Synopsis: Unknown to many, October 20th, 1947 was a historical day in the rakyat’s constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism. This documentary
chronicles the events that culminated in the Malaya-wide ‘Hartal’ day
of protest against the undemocratic Federation of Malaya
Constitutional Proposals devised by the British Colonial Government
and the UMNO, and the rise of the people’s democratic movement in
Malaya, ten years before Merdeka.
Length: 30 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Malaysia

Title: She’s My Son

Director: Indrani Kopal
Synopsis: Transgender issue is real ! Apparently this is something that many Malaysian will not admit. This special breed, ought to be treated as a sex object, or even worse as sex jokes and social outcasts. Many boys who had the urge of becoming a girl, resisted it. Suganya begs to differ. She’s my son tells the story of Suganya from her mother’s point of view. “He” before the sex change, had the courage to face the reality and today as “she” stroll the road confidently, with her family and friends accepting the reality as she did.
Length: 30 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Malaysia

Title: Forgotten

Director: Ong Boon Keong
Synopsis: The clan jetties are at the sea front of George Town, Penang. More than 2000 ex-port workers whose contribution towards the establishment of the Penang port and the George Town city has largely been forgotten. They live in an endangered heritage area with their land lease having to be renewed every year. After waiting for more than over a century, the application for World Heritage City status for George Town hold up a hope for getting their right to land recognized.
Length: 30 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Malaysia

Title: I love Malaya

Director: Asia Witness Production
Synopsis: In 2005, an 81-year-old man sued the Malaysian government for denying him entry into the country of his birth. This man was Chin Peng, the infamous leader of the Malayan Communist Party which waged the longest and most difficult war lasting more than 30 years; first to overthrow the British colonial government and then against the Malaysian estate. When peace was finally secured in 1989, more than 200 guerillas returned to Malaysia. However, Chin Peng, amongst many others who have remained in Southern Thailand are stateless aliens who are unable to step foot into the country they had given their lives fighting for. I Love Malaya is the story of their journey home.
Length: 40 minutes
Year: -
Country: Malaysia, Singapore

Title: River Kwai

Director: Aljazeera, 1001 East
Synopsis: The infamous Siam-Burma railway was an ugly chapter of World War Two. This story reveals the untold story of how the majority of sweat and blood spilled on the railway belonged to Asian workers forced to work as slaves by the imperial Japanese army. For the first time, some of the survivors of that horror have brought their case to court demanding compensation and an apology. 101 East follows the battle for compensation by the forgotten survivors of the Siam-Burma Death Railway.
Length: 23 minutes
Year: -
Country: -

Title: Passabe

Director: James Leong, Lynn Lee
Synopsis: The remote village of Passabe, a battle-scarred community with a horrific past, lies on the precarious border between East and West Timor. In the run-up to the vote for independence in 1999, Passabe was a base for hundreds of pro-Indonesia militiamen – East Timorese who participated in the rampage of violence that climaxed in a bloody massacre. As families continue to grieve, questions remain unanswered; who took part in the killings? Who is to blame? Five years on, one man decides to publicly own up to his role in the massacre; an explosive move that not only exposes him to possible prosecution, but also persecution from his own people. Shot over the course of a year, this film documents a quest for redemption and forgiveness. It is an intimate look into the lives of ordinary folk struggling to rebuild their lives after an armed conflict, and an exploration of the very universal themes of justice and reconciliation.
Length: 110 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Timor

Title: Anak Kg Chubadak

Director: KOMAS
Synopsis: As a mother, an ustazah, and a daughter of Kampung Chubadak, she showed us how it is like to be all that and at the same time struggle to organize her community. This urban pioneer’s village located close to Sentul, have long been eyed by developers and DBKL (city hall). The community must learn to stand up for themselves or face losing their homes forever; one thing this mother would not want to wait and see.
Length: 14 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Malaysia

Title: Idiot Nation

Director: Tan Meng Yoe
Synopsis: Idiot Nation is set in this fictional country called Faltasia. This film is set during the height of election season, and 4 candidates, including the incumbent, have a chance to address the nation on television.
Length: 9 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: That The Mountains May Chant The Truth

Director: Cordillera Human Rights Alliance – KARPATAN
Synopsis: A documentary on the political killings and forced disappearances under Operation Bantay Laya led by the Arroyo government.
Length: 23 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Phillipines

Title: Imagine Being Sued For Caring

Director: Heide Douglas
Synopsis: In Tasmania, communities came up to protest against illegal logging and got sued by timeber companies in return, who alleged that the environmentalist are trying to affect their business.
Length: 12 minutes
Year: 2005
Country: Australia

Title: Penusah Tana (The Forgotten Struggle)

Director: Hilary Chiew, Chi Too
Synopsis: For over 20 years, Ajang Kiew, a Penan leader, has been setting up blockades to protect his NATIVE Customary Rights land from the intrusion of logging companies. To his dismay, his cries and efforts have fallen on deaf ears. Now, he sets up one final struggle before palm oil plantations takes over for good.
Length: 35 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Malaysia

Title: Modern Heroes Modern Slaves

Director: Marie Boti
Synopsis: A behind the scenes look at the situation of overseas contract workers in the wake of the death sentence imposed on domestic worker Flor Contemplacion and the imprisonment of Sarah Balabagan in Canada.
Length: 44 minutes
Year: 1997
Country: Canada

Title: There’s Blood in Your Coffee

Director: ST Exposure
Synopsis: A documentation of the massive protests launched by the striking workers in Nestle Cabuyao, Laguna, the largest Nestle Plant in Asia. The camera eye captures the violence that eventually erupts and thrusts the viewers into the frontlines of the struggle.
Length: 22 minutes
Year: 2003
Country: Philipines

Title: Suicide Jumpers

Director: Herbert Docena
Synopsis: The plight of migrants in warring state of Lebanon and what drove them to desperate measures by jumping out of the very homes they were working in.
Length: 20 minutes
Year: 2005
Country: Lebanon, Philipines

Title: Turbulent Waters (Navires de la Honte)

Director: Malcolm Guy, Michelle Smith
Synopsis: Most of the goods we consume are transported by sea on ships where working conditions recall those of the galley ships of another age. Turbulent Waters takes us into this murky world where ship owners avoid operating standards and working cinditions in force in their own countries by registering their ships offshore in tax havens like Panama, the Bahamas, or Liberia. They then hire seafarers for cheap in the Phillipines, India, China, or the Ukraine.
Length: 75 minutes
Year: 2004
Country: -

Title: WTO – why is it bad for you

Director: Ra Riviera
Synopsis: Have a look at what some experts and everyday people have to say about the World Trade Organization, delivered in the most interesting way.
Length: 5 minutes
Year:-
Country: -

Title: Half Widows

Director: Sushil Kumar
Synopsis: This is a story of missing people, boys and men, who were picked up by security forces and then simply disappeared. The location is Kashmir. Sandwiched between India and Pakistan, Kashmir is a battleground for both. Since the men are missing and not declared dead, their wives are not widows but “half widows”.
Length: 25 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Kashmir

Title: Drying up Palestine

Director: Rima Essa, Peter Snowdon
Synopsis: A portrait of the stresses and strains imposed on Palestinian society by Israel’s almost total control over access to water and sewage facilities in the West Bank, told in the words of ordinary people. A compelling picture of the impact of military occupation on everyday life.
Length: 28 minutes
Year: 2007
Country: Palestine

Title: Trade Talking in Indonesia, Zambia and Brazil

Director: Rimba Media
Synopsis: Smaller businesses like dairy farms and textiles in developing countries are facing threats from the globalization of trades; this video shows how these small communities are working to stand on their own 2 feet against multinational giants.
Length: 24 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Indonesia, Zambia, Brazil

Title: Exodus

Director: Sherman Ong
Synopsis: Two women and a man in cinematic dance, subtle emotions and hidden desires, revealing truth and deadly beauty. Exodus deals with the unspoken nuances of human emotions. An encounter between a lower-class ethnic hinese shampoo girl and a Javanese court dancer sparks an awakening that manifests the dialectics of obsession and the transient nature of human affection. Set against the backdrop of the dominant Javanese culture, this story deals with the aspirations and identity of the two women, each gambling for a better life in a post-Suharto era.
Length: 30 minutes
Year: 2003
Country: Indonesia, Singapore

Title: 24 hrs

Director: Royston Tan
Synopsis: Two men meet and probably spend the night together. One must leave. They would like to talk and understand what happened between them, but they speak different languages.
Length: 8 minutes
Year: 2003
Country: Singapore

Title: Brokeback Sharbat

Director: Namita Malhotra
Synopsis: Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee’s Oscar winning film, is a story of gay love. It has spun off many paradies and take-offs. This is a trailer titled Brokeback Bharat, as part of the campaign against law that makes homosexuality in India illegal. (Malaysia has a similar law).
Length: 2 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: India

Title: A Place to Pray

Director: Hindraf
Synopsis: An expose on the Hindu temples that are being systematically demolished over the past years right here in Kuala Lumpur. Watch how communities are used by and torn apart by forces with little respect for another’s way of life.
Length: 20 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: Training video for Keris, Wushu and Bow and

Arrow
Director: Fahmi Fadzil
Synopsis: There are many ways to use traditional weapons these days, as sometimes demonstrated during political party assemblies; this video will show you some samples.
Length: 7 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: My New Home

Director: Amy Lim
Synopsis: Little Mei Mei just moved into this new community and has happily made some friends; however, her family did not feel the same as they face culture and language differences.
Length: 10 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: 1957.1969.2006

Director: Brenda Danker
Synopsis: This video captured glimpse of lives in these 3 eras, their hopes and dreams and things that changed along the way.
Length: 15 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: Speakers Cornered

Director: Martyn See
Synopsis: When Singapore hosted the World Bank’s and International Monetary Fund’s Annual Meetings, Speakers Cornered captures the thwarted attempts of nonviolence activists to protest peacefully at Speakers’ Corner, a park designated for those with the urge to mount their soapboxes – though, as per the Singaporean way, not without first securing police blessing. In Martyn See’s latest film, the park’s legendary status as a white elephant without clothes is cast in cold hard stone. Living up to its title, its seventeen chapters reveal that to be shackled in Singapore is no metaphor. Stunning and yet strangely amusing, the litany of oppressions catalogued in Speakers Cornered is nothing if not an embarrassment to Singapore. Singapore’s authorities have seen the events that unfolded that week. Why shouldn’t anyone else?
Length: 27 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Singapore

Title: Cut!

Director: Royston Tan
Synopsis: A musical that satirizes censorship in Singapore, and lampoons Ms Amy Chua, director of media content at the Media Development Authority (MDA).
Length: 13 minutes
Year: 2004
Country: Singapore

Title: Old But Not Dead

Director: The Bus Group
Synopsis: A short film following an old man’s journey with a suspicious package on the bus to reach a mysterious destination. Watch as events unfold and how he plays his part for the change he wants to see.
Length: 10 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

Title: Photographers

Director: Pekka
Synopsis: A group of widows and single mothers learn to tell their own stories through the lens of camera.
Length:11 minutes
Year: -
Country: Indonesia

Title: 15

Director: Royston Tan
Synopsis: Semi-docu following lives of young people involving with gangsterism in Singapore. Fast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is the story of five Singaporean teenagers who, abandoned by the system and estranged from their parents and life in general, buold their own world in which gangs, drugs, fighting, piercing, self-harm and suicide are common and brotherhood is important above all else. Shot in stunning, jarring style, Royston Tan manages to brilliantly capture the chaotic lives of these boys, living in the shadows of a sprawling metropolis and with only each other to rely on.
Length: 25 minutes
Year: -
Country: Singapore

Title: Jom Gi Minum (Let’s Go For A Drink)

Director: Sevan Doraisamy
Synopsis: We follow Arasu on his job hunt after graduation as he experiences more than racial discrimination.
Length: 7 minutes
Year: 2006
Country: Malaysia

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