CathayPlay InstitutionTag: Overseas Chinese
A Tree in Tanjung Malim
2004
A fictional autobiographical sketch from the director’s youth. A seventeen-year-old girl skipped school and came to Kuala Lumpur. She had…
A Young Tough
2021
In the summer of 2001, a boy infatuated with blowing up beetles navigates the cracks of his parents’ violently disintegrating…
Chinese Meet Africa
2022
The documentary series Chinese Meet Africa is co-directed by Zhang Yong, a scholar specialized in African films and images at…
Day After Day
2020
There is a group of people living in a shabby bungalow on the outskirts of Paris. In order to survive,…
Dream of Splendor
2023
Dream of Splendor synthesizes footage from the 1962 Hong Kong film “The Magnificent Concubine” with footage of a souvenir shop…
Golden Gate Girls
2013
Esther Eng (1914-1970) was once known as “the only Chinese-American female director in Hollywood”. Early in her life, she made…
Havana Divas
2019
Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong Gutierrez learned the art of Cantonese opera in the1930s in Havana. Caridad’s mentor was her…
Je t’aime
2022
The inspiration for the original creation was based on a strong interest in Vertov’s cinematic eye theory and pure perception….
The Transplants
2014
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from…
Walls
2022
Having been supporting her family in China alone for decades, the dry-cleaning shop owner Lily meets a new customer, who…