Busan Competition Film ‘Oasis of Now’ by Chia Chee Sum Drops First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Identity, incomplete understanding and urban poverty are among the many themes touched upon in “Oasis of Now,” which is set to make its debut next month in the prestigious New Currents competition section of the Busan International Film Festival.
The story revolves around a mother and a daughter who inhabit the invisible corners of an old apartment block in Kuala Lumpur.
They meet in the stairwells, play furtive games and snatch moments of shared happiness, before slinking off to their separate homes.
The mother thinks she is doing the right thing, but it is not clear that she has the full picture. “Oasis of Now” is the feature debut of Chia Chee Sum, a Malaysian director and producer who joins a growing crowd of Southeast Asian filmmakers quietly boosting the region’s profile and reputation for high quality, low budget art filmmaking and making use of a pan-regional production methodology. “Oasis of Now” bears the hallmarks of the Euro-Asian projects market, development labs and indie support system that has created an underpinning for independently-made art films in a region where government support is modest and local box office support is still thinner.
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