On the night of 18 October 1987, a soldier ran amok with an M16 in the area of Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur. Due to the thorny circumstances of the time and place, his amok triggered a citywide panic and rumours of racial riots. Why did he do it? Why were Malaysians so jittery at the time? And what happened next? "The Big Durian" speaks to 23 Malaysians (some real, some fictional) to find out.

Young Chef Huang (Namewee) struggles to get his restaurant business going because he cannot adapt to the “localised’ cooking his patrons are looking for. However, despite his unpopular cuisine, he is well-known as Hero Huang in the local neighbourhood where he carries out good deeds by helping the community – that is, until he met Xiao K (Karen Kong) who gets him in deep trouble. So as to get his life and the restaurant business back on track, Chef Huang must now seek help from a mysterious hawker stall lady (Adibah Noor), who summons him to embark on the extraordinary journey. He is to meet many ‘local heroes’ who will help him rediscover his roots and the hidden message of ‘Nasi Lemak’.

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

Ali (Gambit Saifullah), a young and ambitious guy works for a company that publish political newspaper and mysterious magazine. His job is to take photograph of horror places and then modify it as it appear the ghost are visible. He falls for a cartoonist, Sarah (Melia Aimellia), who is an university graduate. In order to win Sarah’s heart he lies to her that he too was an university graduate from the same university as Sarah’s. One day he get to know Sarah’s father used to work with Dato Zidan, who is a political rival of Datuk Razali Bunari (Eman Manan), his own boss. Ali is required to expose Dato Zidan’s scandal by stealing his secret document. However, in order to win Sarah’s heart he decide to steal the secret document from his boss’s home and not to expose the scandal. Will he cover up the truth or expose everything out in the end for the sake of Sarah’s love?

An amusing story about Wak and his friends who plan to rob a pawnshop when the owner, Tauke Wong, refuses to allow Wak to redeem his grandmother's brooch. After numerous discussions and rehearsals for the BIG robbery day, the guys fall into a trap! Someone else has stolen their thunder! Watch them try to get out of this mess as more surprises await them.

Ramlee (Afdlin Shauki) is a Malay boy doomer who can't seem to settle job, much to his Mother's (Kartina Aziz) disappointment. Out of a job and out of money, he stumble upon across a sushi challenge by restaurant owner Honda (Patrik Teoh) Hungry and desperate, Ramlee attempts the challenge, and fails. In compensation, Honda lets Ramlee take a job at the restaurant to pay off his due. Ramlee becomes a member of the shop staff, along with Haris (Awie) and Andy (Radhi Khalid). He learns that a part of his obligation is to participate in the Malaysia Sushi Association Amateur Sumo Wrestling Championships held by Japanese sushi restaurant owners.

Fifteen short films with socio-economic subject matter by 15 directors of Malaysia's "New Wave" and "No Wave." 15Malaysia is a short film project. It consists of 15 short films made by 15 Malaysian filmmakers. These films not only deal with socio-political issues in Malaysia, they also feature some of the best-known faces in the country, including actors, musicians and top political leaders. You may think of them as funky little films made by 15 Malaysian voices for the people of Malaysia.

"She is a woman, therefore to be wooed." Made by cell phone without any film lens, this short film tries to capture the relationship and feelings of a couple separated by distance through their video calls.

Teoh is dumped by his live-in girlfriend who takes all her possessions, including the washing machine. He buys a second-hand machine, which is when things go wrong.

Lips to Lips is an urban comedy featuring four intertwined stories about desire, all set during one day in Kuala Lumpur. A suicidal young man mourns the death of his stepmother who had come into fatal contact with an apple. A bubbly radio DJ catches her fiancé in an unexpected sexual encounter on the eve of their wedding night. A dapper restaurant owner falls for his doppelganger. A bookshop clerk resorts to black magic to get the attention of a girl with a fetish for cookbooks. Lips to Lips is Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad’s directorial debut. It is Malaysia’s first independent digital feature film that marked the beginning of the Malaysian independent film movement. It paved the way for the Malaysian New Wave’s unique brand of DV (digital video) cinema, whose leading figures have developed a niche of dedicated film audiences.