AFS

[Programme Title] Closing Film

Tickets at $10 / 12 (conc. for students, NSFs, SFS members and Friends of The Substation)
21st September, Monday, 7 – 10pm
Venue: The Substation Theatre
Total runtime: 158min

[Sub-Programme Title] Edwin’s Short Film Retrospective
*Screened before the closing film – Punggok Rindukan Bulan (This Longing)

1) A Very Slow Breakfast

Edwin / 2002 / 6min / Indonesia / RATINGS TBA

Synopsis:
The film that explore feelings about individuality and the loss of family values. An attempt to redefine the meaning of family in the changing realm of modernity.

Director’s Statement:

Film Festivals:
- Jakarta International Film festival, Indonesia, 2003
- 7th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Canada, 2003
- Cinemasia Amsterdam, 2004
- Experimento Film and Video Festival, 2004
- 17th Singapore International Film Festival, 2004
- Brazilian Student Film Competition, 2004
- 5th Short Shorts Asia, 2004
- 9th Pusan International Film Festival, 2004
- Jakarta International Film Festival, 2004
- 30th Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, 2007

2) DAJANG SOEMBI (The Woman who was Married by a Dog)

Edwin / 2004 / 7min / Indonesia / RATINGS TBA

Synopsis:
The legend of Dajang Soembi, retold. Her son turns around to be a killer because he wants to be his own mother's lover.

An absurdist folk tale, inventively told in the form of a silent movie.

Director’s Statement:

Film Festivals:
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2005
- Singapore international Film Festival, 2005
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2005
- Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2005
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2005
- Jakarta International Film Festival, Indonesia, 2004 (2nd Prize Short Film Competition)

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3) Kara The Daughter Of A Tree

Edwin / 2005 / 9min / Indonesia / RATINGS TBA

Synopsis:

Kara is a little girl living in an isolated place. Her father disappeared after Ronald killed her mother. A journalist’s invasion to her life made her decided to seek for Ronald for an ultimate answer.

Director’s Statement:

Film Festivals:
–Cannes International Film Festival, France, 2005
- Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea, 2005
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2005
- CJ Asian Independent Film Festival, Seoul, 2005
- 7th Jakarta International Film Festival
- Festival Film Indonesia, 2005 (Best Short Film Award)
- 35th Rotterdam International Film Festival
- 25th Vancouver International Film Festival
- 30th Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, 2008
- Barcelona Asian Film Festival, 2008

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4) A Very Boring Conversation

Edwin / 2006 / 6min / Indonesia / RATINGS TBA

Synopsis:

The conversation starts from comments about music and e-mails, then slowly moves to illogical things that could possibly change a `"mother-son relationship" into a "man-woman relationship".

Director’s Statement:

Film Festivals:
- 35th Rotterdam International Film Festival
- Singapore International Film Festival, 2006
- Jogja Netpac Asian Film Festival, 2007 (Best Short Film)

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5) Hulahoop Soundings

Edwin / 2008 / 7min / Indonesia / RATINGS TBA

Synopsis:

Lana swings on a hulahoop when taking sex calls. Nico is madly in love with her. Heidy is his jealous girlfriend who believes Lana has put a spell on him. A remake of Joel Coen’s thesis film, “Soundings”.

Film Festivals:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2009
- Jakarta International Film Festival, 2008
- Asian American International Film Festival, 2008

[Sub-Programme Title] Closing Film
*With Pre-screening of Edwin’s Short Film Retrospective

1) (Punggok Rindukan Bulan (This Longing)

Azharr Rudin / 2008 / 122min / Malaysia / PG

Synopsis:
Sidi is a scrappy boy living in a condemned tenement. His escapades revolve around avoiding school and hallucinatory scenes of night fishing with his father. Malaysian director Azharr Rudin's first film is a formally daring mood piece that meditates on the meaning of leaving one's past behind.

Director’s Bio:
Azharr Rudin is based in Kuala Lumpur. He has had stints as pizza maker, web designer, contributing photographer/writer for a Malaysian music magazine, before venturing into filmmaking. He was editor for the documentaries “The Year of Living Vicariously” (2005) and “Lelaki Komunis Terakhir” (The Last Communist). His “Majidee” (2005) won awards at film festivals in Hawaii, Tokyo and Singapore. His compilation of shorts called “The Amber Sexalogy” debuted at the 2006 Singapore International Film Festival. Some of his works have also been featured in a number of international film festivals including Fajr, Vancouver, Clermont-Ferrand, Pusan, Sydney, Rotterdam, San Francisco and Mexico. He served as a NETPAC juror in Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2007).”Punggok Rindukan Bulan” (This Longing) is his debut feature film.

Director’s Statement:

Film Festivals:
- Jakarta International Film Festival, 2008
- Vancouver International Film Festival, 2008
- 4th Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival, 2009

Contact:
azharr.rudin@gmail.com

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