Movies: Tan Chui Mui

Two men -- one elderly, one in his twenties -- are touched by tragedies linked to a single source in this drama from Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin....

Fragments of a dream that could have saved the world....

Chui Mui Tan's part in the anthology film Fragment. A sort of sequel to A Tree in Tanjung Malim....

She sees a dead friend. She does not remember he is dead. They have breakfast together. He gives her a tea cup....

In this black comedy about the disintegration of a love affair, a young woman's loneliness in the midst of Kuala Lumpur's metropolitan sprawl triggers a tenuous relationship with a naïve salesman who has a tendency to please and over-emote....

A Chinese family lives in Kuantan, Malaysia in the 1980s. Because of the centuries of turmoil, their attitude towards eating almost became a ritual....

The laundry girl & motorcycle girl are best friends since childhood. Over the years their relationship has slightly changed. The laundry girl is two-timing her boyfriend, the motorcycle girl continues to help keep it a secret. The motorcycle girl...

Sook Chen quit her job and decided to go to Peru. Ma could not understand why. In fact, she could never understand what Sook Chen wanted....

Personal memories of the director's fast-dwindling hometown....

Four male friends meet at a pizza restaurant for a late night of boozing and talking....

The young local film makers of Durban inspired Tan Chui Mui to make the documentary Sarah and Omelga. Coming from Malaysia with its extreme racial divisions, she was curious about the views of her South African colleagues on the new racial 'equality'...

In a powerful future world, everything is perfect but nobody is allowed to talk....

This Tamil language film tells the story of a young Malaysian girl named Shantha, and her family, who live in a remote estate. Shantha dreams of pursuing an education in spite of the many challenges she and her family face from living in poverty....

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A low-budget science fiction film inspired by a Japanese short story. A Man wakes up from a coma and finds himself in a hospital....

A first visit to South Africa seems to invite observation of the extremes or of folklore in society, but Tan Chui Mui initially chose a very different road. She intended to make a short science fiction film and not to focus on the occasionally grim r...

In 2008, while developing her second film, Tan Chui Mui developed a project of shooting a short film every month. Tan Chui Mui managed to make only 7 short films which turned into "All My Failed Attempts"....