MELBURNIANS will soon get a chance to watch the late Yasmin Ahmad’s Muallaf at the Australian Malaysian Film Festival (AMFF) from Oct 4 to 7 at the city’s cultural landmark, Federation Square.
Organised by A2K Media, the festival pays tribute to the legendary film maker and opens with Talentime, a love story about an Indian boy and a mixed-race Malay girl who fall in love during a talent quest at school.
Muallaf or ‘The Convert’ is slated to screen on the last day and tells the story of two Muslim sisters who escape their abusive father, forming an unlikely relationship with a Catholic boy who harbours a dark past.
“Yasmin prevailed although she was confronted with many challenges. Her films are one of the most powerful pictures seen in Malaysian cinema,” said Farah Al Amin, AMFF’s event coordinator.
The film festival, is part of the inaugural Malaysia Week, a pet project of the various Malaysian Student Organisations in the state of Victoria. Malaysia Week starting from September 27 to October 13, aims to promote Malaysia through a showcase of arts, culture and tourism.
Apart from the film festival, other highlights of the month long Malaysian extravaganza include the Fiesta Malaysia, an exhibition of Malaysian batik and designs, a career fair and the gala dinner “Malam Gemilang”.
“This year’s films will be screened during the day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and are specifically chosen for a predominately young Australian student audience,” added Al Amin.
The organisers have invited secondary and tertiary teachers along with their students to attend these screenings and hope to include discussions with those behind these entertaining films.
Among the films to be featured include animated feature Geng The Movie, highly acclaimed Cicakman 2, My Telatori a short animation by students of The One Academy and the emotionally charged Pensil by M. Subash.
This year’s films showcase a diverse range of genres from comedy, action adventure to melodrama and offers positive messages of hope, depictions of the human condition and universal themes that everyone can identify and connect with.
Featured films will be screened at Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne.
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late yasmin ahmad are really a good director. she is so creative. i like to watch her films especially talentime. that films is really 1 Malaysia. she is a person who always "think out of the box" and this is what make her different with others. - al-fatihah -
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