KK International Film Festival, South-East Asia Night
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
An Island Drifts
Set in Singapore, a young teacher presses for the truth from a maladjusted student. This leads to devastating results and they suffer the ignominy of losing everything that matters to them. The story holds a mirror up to society, where a mistake can derail a life in an overly pressurized world.
Vivian Ip (director) and Kim Mariel (producer) will be present at the screening of the film.
Somleng Reatrey - Sound Of The Night
Vibol and his brother Kea sell noodles from a motorized cart every night on the streets of Phnom Penh. They often face troublesome threats from gangsters and thieves, even if those very people are their only customers. As the city is growing around them, they consider their unstable income and imagine a different future.
Ribs
Morgan is a young man trying to reconnect with his deceased mother and determine what events led to her suicide. He does this by pursuing a modeling career which made his mother famous before he was born. He encounters the devastating neglect and trauma he and his mother share and discovers that her giving birth to him ruined her famed career.
Noah Cotgrove (director) might be present at the screening of the film.
Ang Dragon Sa Capanganuran
Ang Dragon Sa Capanganuran (The Dragon In The Clouds) takes place between 1898 and 1900. When the revolution against Spain breaks out in the Visayas, a poor Chinaman from Cebu and his unlikely friend, a Spanish lieutenant, are taken prisoner by vengeful Katipuneros. Meanwhile in Carcar, General Pantaleon Villegas of the Revolutionary Army, butts heads with the Mayor, a loyalist to Spain.
They all have different plans for a new Philippines - with conflicting ideas about what being a Filipino means. Now they must ask themselves: Who is in the right?
Kokuryo - The Untold Story of Bb. Undas 2019
Centred around two brave transgender women who find the resilience of their friendship tested over the course of one chaotic midnight, KOKURYO: THE UNTOLD STORY OF Bb. UNDAS 2019 is a squalid short story of a midnight gone wrong. Mindy Jane has just won the Bb Undas 2019. While de-dragging and untucking backstage, she opens the envelope containing the cash prize and is shocked to discover that half the money has gone!
Mindy Jane immediately tells Diding, her best friend, and then decides to embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous robbery.
From fighting against drunk transphobes, blasting at the sponsor's house and being summoned to the Barangay Hall, their rip-roaring odyssey leads through the physical and emotional rollercoaster ride of a lifetime.
Aunt Lotus & Her Dream Bicycle
Spurred by a film production crew who claimed she had no imagination, a blind grandma constructs an unusual cycling simulation with common household items.
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.