Tipping the Scales

Southeast Asian Short Films Exhibition and Discussion

Schedule

Short Films

Notes from the Periphery

By Tulapop Saenjaroen

Documentary | 2021 | 13 mins | Thailand, UK

LOGLINE

Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival as an exploration into the globalised shipping networks, liminal territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem Chabang in Thailand.

February 1st

By Leila Macaire, Mo Mo

Documentary | 2021 | 12 mins | Myanmar, France

LOGLINE

February 1st 2021 : the military staged a coup in the republic of Myanmar. Through the portraits of two women filmmakers, one Burmese the other French, who have both witnessed the country in a very different light, this visual documentary explores through a travel diary their reflection toward art, revolution and freedom

Brownout Capital

By Pabelle Manikan

Documentary | 2024 | 14 mins | Philippines

LOGLINE

In the outskirts of Palawan, a man hunts for ice after dark while a woman struggles to keep her ice business afloat amidst erratic electricity. “Brownout Capital” delves into the lives of locals  coping with the constant power outages in their hometown.

The River Runs Still

By Mai Huyền-Chi

Documentary | 2024 | 15 mins | Vietnam

LOGLINE

A stateless woman preparing to leave her houseboat faces a defining moment when her husband returns with devastating news and falls into the water.

Headhunter's Daughter

By Don Eblajan

Fiction | 2021 | 15 mins | Philippines

LOGLINE

Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer

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Other films we are screening

Delikado

by Karl Malakunas

DELIKADO follows environmental defenders Bobby and Tata of the Palawan NGO Network Inc and former El Nido mayor Nieves. They risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles, stopping politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.

11,103

by Jeannette Ifurung and Mike Alcazaren

A documentary featuring survivor stories of state-sponsored violence during the Martial Law years of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

One Death is Too Many | On Extra-Judicial Killings

The war on drugs has left thousands of families grieving and countless voices silenced. But every life taken is one too many. Through film and dialogue, this forum confronts the narratives that justified violence and asks how to resist forgetting, preserve truth, and seek justice.

Ghosts of Future Past | On Martial Law

Southeast Asian Short Films Exhibition and Discussion

This year’s Active Vista Human Rights Festival: TRESE calls you to gather, remember, and resist, through powerful films that confront the haunting legacies of Martial Law.