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The new wave from Malaysian Cinema will be presented at Rialto Theatres in Amsterdam from October 29 until November 2, 2008.

The festival includes more than 30 Malaysian films, Q&A's with filmmakers, masterclasses, an Asian lounge and much more!

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Let's watch WAITING FOR LOVE the last part of James Lee's Love Trilogy series in this coming Deepavali Eve while waiting to celebrate!

~FREE ADMISSION~

DATE: Sunday 26th October 2008
TIME: 3:00PM
Duration: 70 minutes
Venue: IndieCine, KL Performing Art Centre (KLPAC)
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Q & A with James Lee after the screening!

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The sixth Berlinale Co-Production Market will be held from Sunday to Tuesday, February 8-10, 2009, as part of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.

It is a 2 1/2-day event designed especially for producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasting and funding representatives who are actively participating and have experience in international co-productions.

If your project is selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market, you will have the opportunity to present it to interested co-production partners and financiers in pre-scheduled individual meetings.

Moreover, in framework programme producers can catch up on current film financing strategies in case studies and workshops, get first-hand information on co-production opportunities at the "Country Tables", exchange experiences in "Theme Talks" and establish new and refresh existing contacts during informal "Speed Matchings", cocktail receptions or while visiting the "Producers' Lounge".

If you have any questions regarding the project submission or if you want to participate in the Berlinale Co-Production Market without a project, as a potential co-producer for the selected projects, please contact: Tel +49-30-25920-517, e-mail: coproductionmarket@berlinale.de

www.berlinale.de

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
05. - 15.02.2009

Bonjour!

Today, I cried uncontrollably. Tears kept rolling down my beautiful autumn-in-Paris cheeks. I whispered to myself loudly, "WHY THIS SUDDEN RUSH OF EMOTIONS? AM I TURNING INTO A CREATURE CALLED WOMAN??". At the same time, I reached down to feel my genitalia. Phew! You would not imagine how relief I was when I found out that I'm pretty much still a man.

Then I realised, the cause of the whole drama was the onions that I was chopping. No I don't slice, I chop.

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Bonjour!

The french phrase for today is:

Va te faire enculer: Go get fucked up the ass

When you are in a french restaurant and some cocky french waiters show you his attitude because you are a fucking asian better looking than them, say it to his face. You don't have to shout. The softer you say it, the better. So that when he couldn't hear you, he'll lean closer to you. Then you whisper in his ear. It's very effective. They understood what I was saying coz I got thrown out from the restaurant.

This is a gift from my friend Anchalee Saisoontorn in Bangkok.

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DATE: Sunday 19th October 2008
TIME: 3:00PM

Watch the music video here: Night Rain

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10th Jakarta International Film Festival: 5 - 9 Dec 08

27th Vancouver International Film Festival: 25 Sept - 10 Oct 08
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13th Pusan International Film Festival: 2 - 10 October 08
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GSC International Screens:
Pavilion KL, Mid Valley, 1 Utama & Gurney Plaza.
25 SEPTEMBER > 22 OCTOBER 2008
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excerpted from OFF THE EDGE Oct 08
Biting Cinema: Viewing the country's liminal zones by Benjamin McKay

Azharr Rudin's Punggok Rindukan Bulan (This Longing) is many worlds away from the glamorous horror of Susuk. This languidly paced rumination on space and place is, on the surface, a tale about a young boy Sidi (Saeful Nazhif Satria) and his father Adman (Sahronizam Noor) who are both emotionally dealing with the absence of Umi (Maya Karin), their mother and wife. Shot in Johor Bahru and largely set in the recently demolished Bukit Chagar housing development, this modest but astonishing film is proof that the promise of Azharr's The Amber Sexalogy was indeed justified. In making a thematic link to my musings on liminality, I can think of no more profoundly liminal a place than JB, and this film captures it with a quiet, poetic intensity rarely found on Malaysian screens.

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Hong Kong - Asia Financing Forum (HAF) will be back for its 7th edition on 23 - 25 March 2009!

HAF alumnus and Berlinale Silver Bear Award winner LI Yang said: "HAF is the best platform for Chinese directors to showcase themselves to the West, as well as an excellent conduit for international filmmakers to enter China." To read about the accomplishment highlights of previous HAF projects, please click here.

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Bonjour!

I've arrived in Paris for a few days now and I'm freezing my balls out already(it doesn't help when you have more than 2 balls). A friend suggested that I should be wearing my pants when I'm out walking in the streets. I guess she's right.

This is where I do my writing. The black and white girl in the poster comes alive at night

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