News — Edmund Yeo

River of Exploding Durians 榴莲忘返 (2014) – Malaysia [2015 HKAFF] Reviewed by: Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Director: 杨毅恒 Edmund Yeo Cast: 朱芷莹 Zhu Zhi-ying, 高圣 Shern Koe, 刘倩妏 Daphne Low, 梁祖仪 Joey Leong I have always been interested in Edmund Yeo’s works and his transition from shorts to feature length film is by no means a simple journey. The film is narratively constructed to reflect several layers of mirrors, Edmund’s own childhood, first love and reflections on politics and the wider world around him through the male lead character, while the characters in the film themselves crosses parallel paths. The...

Aqérat 阿奇洛 (We, the Dead) (2017) – Malaysia [HKAFF 2018] Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Edmund Yeo’s continuation of his promising directorial feature debut in 2014’s “River of the Exploding Durians” comes in “Aqerat”, a difficult film to sit through, but nonetheless, also his most ambitious to date. Tackling the political and universal human rights based the true events on the discovery of mass graves in northern Malaysia of over two hundred Rohingya refugees, buried by Malaysian human traffickers, the film become layers of dream-like sequence and often providing damning of humans losing humanity and eventually mortality. Yeo...