Section 6: Macao Short Film New Talents

2022-2024 / 108' / Macao / In Cantonese with Chinese and English Subtitles / Color

409.9 MHz

(Macao,2023,13')

Vincent, the night guard in a factory, has an interphone frequency of 409.9MHz, which is different from the rest of the team, and each of them cannot hear each other clearly. His booth was on the other side of the factory, and he listened to the night station on the interphone everyday during the night time.

Director: Kyla Liang

Peaceful

(Macao,2022,21')

Wen Hong, who was released after serving his sentence, returned to the city where he used to live, but the city and people he used to live in made him feel very strange. The reason why he was imprisoned was because he participated in a parade many years ago. He accidentally killed his companion, and he was determined to give an explanation to his companion's family, but when he actually faced them, he hesitated.

Director: Tang Chi Fai

Purple

(Macao,2023,21')

The story is about a pair of roommates, a boy and a girl. In preparation for an acting gig, she asks the roommate to play the counterpart in rehearsal and borrows a box that once belonged to the roommate's ex as a prop for a scene. As the rehearsal goes on, it sparks an unforeseen emotional connection between them.

Director: Ebenezer Ho

One Step From Death

(Macao,2023,20')

Chan Tai Man is sitting under a tree and waiting. He does not know why he is waiting, what he is waiting for and what will come next. Before dying, he meets a priest and the God of Death. They talk about the meaning of life and death. Then they embark on a journey to death together.

Director: Wong Ka Wai

Lifelong Finale

(Macao,2024,16')

Every day, the undertaker, Iau Iau , is faced with the ancestors who fill the inside of the coffins, without any empathetic sensitivity towards death. One day, his esteemed mother-in-law wants her grandson to organise a life finale for her.

Director: Chan Si Weng

Devour

(Macao,2024,17')

When her mother Lai Kun divorces her cheating father, she leaves the family and moves out with her daughter in order to get custody of her, and the family's finances are in tatters. Her mother believes in her sister's idea of raising children for old age, and hopes that her daughter can become a successful woman and rely on herself in the future, so she has high hopes for her daughter, who has no qualifications. The mother uses all sorts of tactics to brainwash her daughter into believing that only the mother can do anything for her daughter's good. The daughter is eventually assimilated by her mother and tragedy ensues.

Director: Chang Ieng Ieng, Lam Ka In


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