Movies: Pōtocol
- 2023
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
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After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral....
- 2024
Tomorrow Is a Long Time (2024)
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Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his family’s past, and forced into bullying other kids at school. Everything changes when he is thrown into a l...
- 2024
Pierce (2024)
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Shy and sweet-natured Zijie spends his time learning the art of fencing and listening to his widowed mother, Ai Ling, sing at a local nightclub. When Zijie’s older brother Zihan – a three-time national fencing champion – is released from juvenile pri...
- 2020
Motel Acacia (2020)
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In the cold west, Motel Acacia is tasked with exterminating immigrants by the government through a BED, haunted with the spirit of a Filipino tree demon, that eats men and impregnates women. A young Filipino man, JC, is groomed by his tyrannical cauc...
- 2024
MA - Cry of Silence (2024)
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Yangon, Myanmar, in 2022, is in the midst of a civil war following the military coup on February 1, 2021. Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman, works in a garment factory in Yangon, far from her native village. Wages have not been paid for the past two mon...
- 2023
Autobiography (2023)
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A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence....
- 2023
Beyond the Other Shore (2023)
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Following the unexpected demise of a stranger while at work, a repair technician spirals into facing the reality of his own mortality....
- 2021
Rehana Maryam Noor (2021)
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An assistant professor at a medical college balances her roles as a professional, a mother and a teacher. Her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student....
- 2023
Last Shadow at First Light (2023)
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Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form....
- 2018
A Family Tour (2018)
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A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan....
- 2017
I Have Nothing to Say (2017)
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The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her ...
- 2023
I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself (2023)
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With her family on the cusp of change and separation, a filmmaker questions the meaning of her given name, her place among her four sisters, and their stories....
- 2021
The Age of Revelation (2021)
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The Age of Revelation tells the tale of a mythic figure who wanders through the world and observes the slowly growing disconnection between humanity, nature, and humanity’s innate spirituality. A sound-film collaboration between SAtheCollective and ...
- 2017
Forest of Copper Columns (2017)
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In the forest of copper columns, a man performs a ritual of cleansing....
- 2020
The Wandering (2020)
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Something has gone wrong for a typical Singaporean family. After a man loses his job and the respect of his wife and teenage son, he tries to reconnect with his family by taking them on a trip to visit a childhood haunt. Now abandoned and falling apa...
- 2021
The World of Mindfulness (2021)
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During the pandemic, the filmmaker’s son found himself stuck at home for a very long time. Ying Liang watched him cut out a portrait of Abbas Kiarostami from a book, and create a face mask on the face of the Iranian filmmaker. Liang observes how his ...
- 2022
Absent Smile (2022)
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Absent Smile is a loving document of Clang’s parents and their mixed feelings of longing yet support for their son. Using the age-old format of family portraiture augmented with digital means, the spectral quality of absent family members projects a ...
- 2021
Between Beginnings: Donna Ong (2021)
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Donna Ong is an installation artist, best known for her evocative and thought-provoking and often complex environments made from furniture, found objects and original artwork....
- 2021
On Memory (2021)
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Lost while visiting the graves of his ancestors, the protagonist finds his future self. Together, they embark on a journey of retracing the places their family would visit during the Qing Ming festival of tomb-sweeping. Inspired by the poetry and in ...