I'll Leave You Words
ANWAR JOHARI HO I 2025 I Malaysia I 23:39 min
Drama, Mystery I Malay, Korean w/ English subititles I World Premiere
CLOSING FILM I MATA-ASYA
A female Cambodian escort in Kuala Lumpur offers intimacy through stories, slipping between languages to soothe her clients; until a lonely Korean man’s longing for the past forces her to confront the silences in her own story.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 I SATURDAY
6 PM I CINEMATHEQUE CENTRE NEGROS
FREE I co-presented with The Negros Museum
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CINEMATHEQUE CENTRE NEGROS
Gatuslao Street, Bacolod City
beside The Negros Museum
Graduating from the University of Reading, UK, Anwar’s thesis short film Forget Me Not garnered accolades at multiple festivals, and his subsequent short, Burung-Burung, premiered at Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2020), winning the Jury Prize Award at the Mini Film Festival (2021). His next short film, Fish Balls (2024) had its international premiere at the Ngilngig Fantastic Asian Film Festival. He has also directed multiple shorts and web series in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2021.
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An alumnus of the inaugural Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) in 2022, he's now developing his debut feature film.
