Bangkok Post – Asean Film Festival is finally here

Despite the odd, unexplained double postponement — the first when it was moved from early December 2023 to late January 2024, and then from January to March — the Bangkok Asean Film Festival finally gets under way, from today until Sunday at SF CentralWorld. Despite the adjournment, the line-up looks decent, with the best Southeast Asian titles culled from the past year — Tiger Stripes, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, Abang Adik, Dreaming And Dying, Oasis Of Now, Nowhere Near, Morrison, Thai classics The Adventure Of Sudsakorn and The Adulterer, and a short film competition.

Last year was an especially electrifying year for Malaysian cinema and the festival presents three works from our southern neighbour — Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes, Chee Sum Chia’s Oasis Of Now, and Jin Ong’s Abang Adik. All three are worth catching and represent diverse sensibilities…