Movies: Pōtocol

  • 2023
    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)

    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    6.12023HD

    After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral....

    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  • 2024
    Tomorrow Is a Long Time

    Tomorrow Is a Long Time (2024)

    Tomorrow Is a Long Time

    02024HD

    Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his family’s past, and forced into bullying other kids at school. Everything changes when he is thrown into a l...

    Tomorrow Is a Long Time
  • 2024
    Pierce

    Pierce (2024)

    Pierce

    72024HD

    Shy and sweet-natured Zijie spends his time learning the art of fencing and listening to his widowed mother, Ai Ling, sing at a local nightclub. When Zijie’s older brother Zihan – a three-time national fencing champion – is released from juvenile pri...

    Pierce
  • 2020
    Motel Acacia

    Motel Acacia (2020)

    Motel Acacia

    4.62020HD

    In the cold west, Motel Acacia is tasked with exterminating immigrants by the government through a BED, haunted with the spirit of a Filipino tree demon, that eats men and impregnates women. A young Filipino man, JC, is groomed by his tyrannical cauc...

    Motel Acacia
  • 2024
    MA - Cry of Silence

    MA - Cry of Silence (2024)

    MA - Cry of Silence

    02024HD

    Yangon, Myanmar, in 2022, is in the midst of a civil war following the military coup on February 1, 2021. Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman, works in a garment factory in Yangon, far from her native village. Wages have not been paid for the past two mon...

    MA - Cry of Silence
  • 2023
    Autobiography

    Autobiography (2023)

    Autobiography

    7.72023HD

    A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence....

    Autobiography
  • 2018
    A Family Tour

    A Family Tour (2018)

    A Family Tour

    6.32018HD

    A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan....

    A Family Tour
  • 2021
    Rehana Maryam Noor

    Rehana Maryam Noor (2021)

    Rehana Maryam Noor

    7.22021HD

    An assistant professor at a medical college balances her roles as a professional, a mother and a teacher. Her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student....

    Rehana Maryam Noor
  • 2023
    Beyond the Other Shore

    Beyond the Other Shore (2023)

    Beyond the Other Shore

    02023HD

    Following the unexpected demise of a stranger while at work, a repair technician spirals into facing the reality of his own mortality....

    Beyond the Other Shore
  • 2023
    Last Shadow at First Light

    Last Shadow at First Light (2023)

    Last Shadow at First Light

    6.82023HD

    Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. Amidst the transforming landscapes, Ami's dreams, hauntings and lost mother unveil their true form....

    Last Shadow at First Light
  • 2017
    Forest of Copper Columns

    Forest of Copper Columns (2017)

    Forest of Copper Columns

    02017HD

    In the forest of copper columns, a man performs a ritual of cleansing....

    Forest of Copper Columns
  • 2020
    The Wandering

    The Wandering (2020)

    The Wandering

    02020HD

    Something has gone wrong for a typical Singaporean family. After a man loses his job and the respect of his wife and teenage son, he tries to reconnect with his family by taking them on a trip to visit a childhood haunt. Now abandoned and falling apa...

    The Wandering
  • 2021
    The Age of Revelation

    The Age of Revelation (2021)

    The Age of Revelation

    02021HD

    The Age of Revelation tells the tale of a mythic figure who wanders through the world and observes the slowly growing disconnection between humanity, nature, and humanity’s innate spirituality. A sound-film collaboration between SAtheCollective and ...

    The Age of Revelation
  • 2023
    I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself

    I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself (2023)

    I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself

    02023HD

    With her family on the cusp of change and separation, a filmmaker questions the meaning of her given name, her place among her four sisters, and their stories....

    I Look into the Mirror and Repeat to Myself
  • 2022
    Absent Smile

    Absent Smile (2022)

    Absent Smile

    02022HD

    Absent Smile is a loving document of Clang’s parents and their mixed feelings of longing yet support for their son. Using the age-old format of family portraiture augmented with digital means, the spectral quality of absent family members projects a ...

    Absent Smile
  • 2021
    On Memory

    On Memory (2021)

    On Memory

    02021HD

    Lost while visiting the graves of his ancestors, the protagonist finds his future self. Together, they embark on a journey of retracing the places their family would visit during the Qing Ming festival of tomb-sweeping. Inspired by the poetry and in ...

    On Memory
  • 2021
    The World of Mindfulness

    The World of Mindfulness (2021)

    The World of Mindfulness

    02021HD

    During the pandemic, the filmmaker’s son found himself stuck at home for a very long time. Ying Liang watched him cut out a portrait of Abbas Kiarostami from a book, and create a face mask on the face of the Iranian filmmaker. Liang observes how his ...

    The World of Mindfulness
  • 2017
    I Have Nothing to Say

    I Have Nothing to Say (2017)

    I Have Nothing to Say

    52017HD

    The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her ...

    I Have Nothing to Say
  • 2021
    Between Beginnings: Donna Ong

    Between Beginnings: Donna Ong (2021)

    Between Beginnings: Donna Ong

    02021HD

    Donna Ong is an installation artist, best known for her evocative and thought-provoking and often complex environments made from furniture, found objects and original artwork....

    Between Beginnings: Donna Ong