OASIS OF NOW

By Chee Sum CHIA

DIVERSION - as SALES

Completed 2023


Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2023
New currents
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2024
Forum
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Chee Sum CHIA
    • Producer(s)
    • Yve Vonn LEE (Afternoon Pictures), Fran BORGIA (AKANGA FILM ASIA), Xavier ROCHER (LA FABRICA NOCTURNA)
    • Synopsis
    • In an old apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur, we see lives in unseen corners. The stairwell of a near-abandoned floor of this apartment is one of these corners, where a woman and her daughter take refuge for their secret meetings. They meet at the top of this stairwell, play games and attempt to interact in this stolen time and place they share.

      The mother thinks she knows what is best for the daughter, while the daughter longs for a promise from the mother. Later, they’ll have to return separately to their own homes in the same apartment complex. The woman will continue her chores and she will live her life in between spaces she is so familiar with.

      But nothing is quite what it seems.