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Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.
Towards the end of 2016, Noom meets Jane when he helps her throw garbage at the mall's disposal area. Their relationship grows at a noodle house. Roaming around the Memorial Bridge and smoking, Jane unlocks some repressed feelings about her family.
A young woman working late at night at a beauty salon gives into her restrained interest in a young man who spends his evenings driving Phnom Penh's streets by motorbike as a delivery man.
An underachiever comes up with an outlandish plan to avoid alimony obligations to his fashion executive ex-wife.
An Indonesian boy and his mother bring Chinese takeout to a church potluck and pretend it’s a traditional family dish. The boy's quiet observations lead him to question his parents' behavior as they strive to find a sense of belonging in a new country.
A group of young individuals in their mid-20s Kwan, Ploy, and Kawin who, in their newfound and unconventional love, look for a sense of belonging as the world comes to pause. In stillness, they face themselves and confront their personal identities in the shadows of family quarrels and the unforeseen future of their youth and the world. Kwan narrates a personal reflection on a mythical story her mother once told her. A woman who vowed to be born as a Dalha flower for the sake of love. As the myth threads a connection in Kwan's memory of her absent mother, Kwan comes to understand her conflicted identity. Following her mother's footsteps, she decides to embark on a journey in search of change.
An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors defend a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.
Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
On the Annapurna Massif, Tukten, a young Nepali man setting off for a new life as a laborer in Dubai, encounters an older Australian woman who causes him to change course and discover his homeland in a new light.