Join us for the first out of four screenings of intriguing short films over a steaming cup of coffee at cozy venues across George Town!

*There will be 3 Coffee Shorts throughout the month of August. Please select the date that you will be attending (you can attend more than one) and take note of the location where the screening will be held.

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1. Human Form (12min)

Feeling isolated in a world where everyone wears the same surgically-altered appearance, a young girl takes extreme measures to change her own.

2. Bro (14min)

Xiao Jie is getting married soon, but there's a secret that she never told her fiance before, that is - she has a mentally retarded brother who is now living in Special Education Center. Today, she has made up her mind and brings her brother back to introduce her brother to her fiance. However, it is not as easy as she thinks.

3. Xing (20min)

Irwan is Malaysian and madly in love with Xing, a Chinese cabaret artist whom he watches performs on stage every night. Xing, for her part, needs company and takes to his presence as best she can. The film stays close to the lives of the two lovers, casting an intense light, both sensual and incredibly mature, on this impossible love story.

4. Revenge (11min)

Upon discovering that her boyfriend has cheated on her, a woman resorted to traditional Indonesian black magic santet to invoke the same pain on him. Revenge is the best way to heal a broken heart. Or is it?

5. Hanging On (12min)

Based on a true story. An aged dad misses his beloved daughter all the time, wondering if she's too exhausted from work, if she takes good care of herself.

At the same time, this daughter never neglects her father and spends valued moments with her dad out of her busy life. Until one day, an incident happens, and everything changed, except...

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