2024 MPA APSA Academy Film Fund Recipient
In a remote Indonesian mining town, ALMA (35), a devoted wife, is trying to raise her son following the arrest of her husband. Disappointed by the arrest, however, one night, her son sets a mining excavator on fire, kicking off a violent chain of events.
Producer: Yulia Evina Bhara
Director: Makbul Mubarak
View ProfileOutside Kabul tells the harrowing story of two young Afghan women coming of age at the end of their world.
Producer: Estelle Fialon
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Inside a circus tent, a ragtag film crew is busy shooting a film of four Sichuan bizarre tales— From prehistoric ancestors with tails, to fertile beginning of agriculture, from rivers of medieval exile, to the sparks of revolution… spanning four millennia, and told through the chronicles of four celebrations, it invites us to feast with the living, the dying, the dead, and the long dead.
Cinematographer: Robbin Yuchao Feng
Director: Qiu Jiongjiong
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Fifteen-year-old Mugi, raised in lower middle class Tokyo, goes on a free trip to Australia with her family who scams the real estate agency running a mansion tour for the rich, but the trip soon forces Mugi to reckon with the lies that her family had been telling her.
Director, Screenwriter: Neo Sora
Producer, Screenwriter: Aiko Masubuchi
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