KK International Film Festival, Night 6
The KKIFF
Since 2009, the Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (KKIFF) has been bringing international movies to Sabah, promoting emerging regional filmmakers, and training young people for the film industry.
Film Line-up
Galang Kangin
Putri (16) lives with her mother (42), who is blind. Putri is a third-grade junior high school student who sells bead bracelets at a tourist site on her way home from school. But Putri's mother suffers from trauma from the Bali bombing incident and is always worried and afraid of crowds.
One day, Putri invites her mother to visit Sanur Beach - both to reminisce about the past and also to take toya segara (ocean water) to sprinkle in their back yard.
The trip to Sanur Beach is made on public transport, a bemo. However, when they arrive at the beach, they are expelled by a security guard because a hotel has privatized the area.
Twenty20
Jenny is a teenager who has to live up to the “perfect life”. Taking care of her Asperger brother becomes the lens that her inner world is projected upon, together with the dilemma of meeting expectations and the realistic failings of everyday life.
Between an absent jet-setting father, real-estate mogul mother and a favourite teacher leaving, Jenny's disappointment becomes sharper when her drama club fails to secure the championship. Unbeknownst to her, the people around her are also going through their own journeys. Everything converges in a family crisis where all of them are forced to look at each other's vision of what the perfect life is.
Like the year 2020, the film marks a turning point. As events change, viewpoints have to be adjusted. Only with new vision is the future possible.
Wong Kwang Han (director) will be present at the screening of the film.
Organiser of this event
How to get to this event?
City Cineplex
2nd Floor, City Mall Shopping Centre, Jalan Lintas, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.