COUNTRY
Spain, Malaysia
PRODUCTION
Hastur Films
YEAR2025
DURATION64 min
WRITING Gwai Lou
CINEMATOGRAPHY Abudin Abdullah & Gwai Lou
MUSIC
Beza Cabeza, Zoe Lim & Mai Húóng
EDITION Gwai Lou
CAST Grace Ng, Yon Lynn Tan, Lily Tan, Seow Jin Wen
DISTRIBUTION Hastur Films
INTERNATIONAL SALES Hastur Films
CONTACT gwailoufilms@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS After years abroad, Amber returns to Malaysia seeking closure with her former love, Jun. But the place she finds no longer resembles the one in her memory. When she finally finds her, Jun claims not to know her. Thus begins a tense game of cat and mouse through the streets of Kuala Lumpur, a city in perpetual struggle with the surrounding jungle, where both are forced to confront who they are... or perhaps, who they are not.
Gwai Lou
Gwai Lou, meaning "foreign devil" in Cantonese, is the professional pseudonym of filmmaker, writer, and visual artist David Yáñez , who has been based in Malaysia since 2016. His work, much like his pseudonym, reflects his experience as an immigrant and his fluid cultural identity. He left his small hometown in Extremadura at the age of 17 and has been an immigrant ever since, making films wherever he lives with the same urgency with which he lives them.
FILMOGRAPHY
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (feature film, 2022),
Desaparecer (feature film, 2020)
