Before, Now & Then
Before, Now & Then
Director: Kamila Andini
Country: Indonesia
Year: 2022
Running Time: 103 minutes
Producer: Ifa Isfansyah, Gita Fara
Starring: Happy Salma, Arswendy Bening Swara, Laura Basuki, Chempa Puteri, Ibnu Jamil, Rieke Diah Pitaloka
Synopsis:
The late 1960s. Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. But the past lives on in her dreams. Her new husband is wealthy, but her place at home is menial, and he is unfaithful. Nana suffers in silence until she meets one of her husband’s mistresses, and everything changes. Together with Ino, to whom she can confide her secrets, past and present, they find the hope of new freedom.
Director’s Biography:
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1986, Kamila Andini studied sociology and media arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Her films focus on socio-cultural topics, gender equality and environmental issues. Her directing debut “The Mirror Never Lies”, about the lives of Indonesian sea nomads, screened at the 2012 Berlinale Generation. Her second feature film “The Seen And Unseen” won the Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury in 2018 while her third film, the teen drama “Yuni”, won the Platform Prize at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
Children of the Mist
Children of the Mist
Director: Ha Le Diem
Country: Vietnam
Year: 2021
Running Time: 92 minutes
Producer: Tran Phuong Thao, Swann Dubus
Starring: Ma Thi Di
Synopsis:
Di is a 12-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of Northwest Vietnamese mountains. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping”.
When Di enters puberty, her personality has changed drastically. The carefree little girl has turned into an impetuous, hypersensitive teenager constantly arguing with her mother who is trying to keep her away from reckless relationships that she is not mature enough to handle.
On the Lunar New Year's Eve, when Di's parents come back home after celebrating, the house is silent: Di has disappeared.
This is a story about the thin line between childhood and becoming an adult. Over a period of three years, girls in her minority are forced to lose their innocence, discover the traps of seduction and fight for their independence.
Director’s Biography:
Ha Le Diem was born in 1991 in Tay ethnic minority group living in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam. She left her hometown to study journalism at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, from where she graduated in 2013.
“Children Of The Mist” is her first feature documentary film project. She is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee.
Glorious Ashes
Glorious Ashes
Director: Bui Thac Chuyen
Country: Vietnam, France, Singapore
Year: 2022
Running Time: 116 minutes
Producer: Tran Thi Bich Ngoc
Starring: Le Cong Hoang, Bao Ngoc Doling, Phuong Anh Dao, Ngo Quang Tuan, Ngo Pham Hanh Thuy, Thach Kim Long
Synopsis:
Three women, whose lives are unusual and unique to their nature, try to get the attention of their lovers in their estranged and distinct way: Hau and her husband as master and servant; Nhan and her husband as mother and child; Loan and Khang – the man who raped her when she was 12 – as victim and culprit.
Director’s Biography:
Bui Thac Chuyen is a filmmaker from Vietnam. After graduating from high school in 1985, he spent four years studying in the Acting Department of the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, and then two further years in the Directing Department from 1997. He began making short films and TV serials in 1991, and his 35mm graduation short film “Night Run” (2000) earned him the first ever Cannes Film Festival prize win by a Vietnamese film director in the Cinéfondation section in 2000. His debut feature-length film “Living in Fear” (2005) also garnered several national and international prizes including the Asian New Talent Award at Shanghai IFF. His second feature “Adrift” (2009) was officially selected in Orizzonti Competition at Venice International Film Festival 2009, and won a FIPRESCI Award. The film was also selected at numerous other film festivals, including Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Rotterdam. In 2022, his film “Glorious Ashes” won the Montgolfière d’Or in Nantes.
The Novelist’s Film
The Novelist’s Film
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Country: South Korea
Year: 2022
Running Time: 92 minutes
Producer: Hong Sangsoo
Starring: Lee Hyeyoung, Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Park Miso, Kwon Haehyo, Cho Yunhee, Ha Seongguk, Ki Joobong, Lee Eunmi, Kim Siha
Synopsis:
A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep.
Director’s Biography:
Hong Sangsoo was born in Seoul, Korea in October, 1960 and studied at Chung-Ang University, California College of the Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He made the first feature film in 1996. Since then, he made 26 feature films and a few short films. Currently he is teaching at Konkuk University in Seoul.
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