Malaysian Short Films + Your Favourite Malaysian Movies

29-Aug-25 18:00

Malaysian Short Films + Your Favourite Malaysian Movies

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With Merdeka around the corner, Popcorn Culture celebrates local filmmaking with a review of three local short films: 'Pace' by Ekin Kee Charles, 'The House of Brick and Stone' by Ananth Subramaniam and 'Fasa' by Syahmi Norsan.

Then on Take 2, we discuss your favourite Malaysian movies, before hearing from our local filmmakers about the hopes thay have for Malaysian cinema. For this we hear from Adam Zainal, Ananth Subramaniam, Anwar Johari Ho, Gogularaajan Rajendran, Lee Yve Vonn, Mickey Lai and Putra Adib.

Image Credit: IMDb

Produced by: Sudais Ferhard

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Sudais Ferhard

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Categories: film, culture, History/Heritage, visual arts

Tags: malaysia, merdeka, national day, malaysian film, indie film, sabah films, bmwshorties, independent filmmaking,

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