The story follows Qaseh Arina (Adiba Yunus) who is raised by her grandmother, Nek Embun (Liza Abdullah). Nek Embun is a renowned midwife famous for her various traditional remedies. From a young age, Qaseh has accompanied Nek Embun in welcoming the birth of babies and wishes to become like her grandmother. Qaseh records every remedy of Nek Embun in her notebook. She brings Nek Embun's remedies with her until she continues her studies at university in Kuala Lumpur. Various heartwarming actions are performed by Qaseh using Nek Embun's remedies, so much so that she is called old-fashioned by her university friends. City people do not believe in Qaseh's remedies. However, Qaseh's remedy succeeds in helping solve the problem of Nash (Raja Afiq), a handsome and wealthy bachelor but who has a body odor problem. Since then they become good friends.
Complex relationships between mothers and daughters are far from a new concept, whether the strain comes from abandonment, beliefs, or trauma. In My Only Wish, an Incluvie Film Festival submission, Brenda Gutierrez’s take on her character’s maternal divide comes in the form of abandonment.
You can’t talk to my grandpa about The Sopranos. You can’t talk to him about The Godfather either. Merely by bringing up the subject, you’d be treated to a lecture on how movies and TV want you to believe that all Italians are criminals and mobsters. He won’t watch any of it, in protest.
Wild Child tells the story of a wealthy, spoiled teenage girl named Poppy Moore who lives in Malibu, California, who attends a boarding school in England. This film shows us how Poppy is first labeled as a fish out of water compared to her boarding school classmates, as she is a wild child, but eventually earns her roommates' friendships and respect.
'Yuri!!! on Ice' turned queerbaiting on its head and gave me hope when I needed it the most.
The Bluff unravels its mystery slowly, opening on the capture of a ship captain named Bodden (Ismael Cruz Córdova) and the swift execution of his entire crew. Then, viewers are treated to a tranquil British settlement in the Cayman Islands in the 1850s, where a mother bakes a coconut birthday cake for her son in a house suspiciously rigged with makeshift tripwires and burglar alarms. As it turns out, that mother is Priyanka Chopra’s quick witted and resourceful ex-pirate Mrs. Ercell Bodden, and her husband’s captors are on the way to the island to hunt her down for abandoning them and stealing their loot. The pirates of the Libertas land on the beaches of Cayman Brac, and the scenes that follow show a Viking-esque slaughter of half the island.
'Uprooted' is a short film on what's happening in Ukraine as of today. This captures the emotions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
