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Flower in the PocketA film by Liew Seng Tat

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    • Run time: 97 minutes
    • Country of origin: Malaysia
  • 18th NATFILM FESTIVAL
    21st Singapore International Film Festival
    10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI)
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  • Genre:
    Children
  • Synopsis:

    Li Ahh and Li Ohm grow up motherless. Their father Sui is a workaholic who spends most of his time mending broken mannequins. Sui is an outsider to the two boys, the only legacy left by the woman he loved, or still loves. While he shuts himself out from the world, the two brothers grow up with all the freedom of neglected children. They roam the streets; get into fights and other trouble in school.
    Along the way, they adopt a stray puppy, which becomes the most important thing in their lives. When the puppy is sent away for being a nuisance, the boys are devastated. Sui is very much affected by his boys' strong emotional attachment to the puppy. For the very first time, he realizes that he is still able to love and he's going to do something about it before it's too late.
     
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    • Director:
      Liew Seng Tat
    • Writer(s):
      Liew Seng Tat
    • Executive Producer(s):
      Tan Chui Mui
    • Producer(s):
      Yen San Michelle Lo
    • Director of Photography:
      Albert Hue See Leong
    • Cast and Credits:

      Cast:
      Wong Zi Jiang as Ma Li Ohm
      Lim Ming Wei as Ma Li Ahh
      James Lee as Ah Sui
      Amira Nasuha Binti Shahiran as Atan/Ayu
      Crew:
      Production Manager/ Assistant Director: Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen
      Cinematographer: Albert Hue See Leong
      Production Designer: Gan Siong King
      Props Master/ Wardrobe: Wong Tay Sy
      Propsman / Wardrobe Assistant : Fahmi Reza
      Gaffer: Chin Kuek Min
      Soundman: Ong Cheng Lam
      Boom Operator: Yap Hean Fei
      Camera Assistant: Tan Seng Kiat
      Production Administration: Sia Hui Won
      Production Coordinator: Pua Yan Fan
      Location Coordinator: Lai Chung Keong
      Talent Coordinator: Ang Kah Wei
      Continuity: Ooi Boon Theng
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  • Prior Festival Screenings:
    • 12th Pusan International Film Festival
    • 26th Vancouver International Film Festival
    • 31st Göteborg International Film Festival
    • 58th Berlin International Film Festival
    • 22nd Fribourg International Film Festival
    • 10th Deauville Asian Film Festival
    • 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival
  • Awards:
    • New Current Award 12th Pusan International Film Festival 2007 2007
    • KNN Audience Award 12th Pusan International Film Festival 2007 2007
    • VPRO Tiger Award 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 2008
    • Le Regard d’Or» (Golden Gaze) Award, 22nd FRIBOURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008. 2008
 

                                                                                                                                                       

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  • "...Liew’s flair for portraying emptiness with an elegant touch of playful humour makes this film a delightful cinematic experience, a real gem."

    Read full and original article at: http://www.malaysiakini.com/rentakini/74568
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  • "...there is still a prevailing aura of optimism in ["Flower in the Pocket"]... but perhaps this is precisely what Liew tries to suggest it is like for the characters in the film who are long deadened by circumstance and are only trying to get from one day to the next....

    "...holding its own in a year of many notable independent films...."

    Full and original article published at: http://www.cinemaonline.com.my/movie/movie.asp?search=flowerpocket
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  • "The awards keep coming for "Flower in the Pocket," a slip of a film whose genuine humor and lack of pretension, not to mention palpable warmth, set it above the general run of new Malaysian cinema...."

    Full and original article published in:
    http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117936083.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&query=%22Flower+in+the+Pocket%22
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