All My Failed Attempts 我的失败作
2009 | 66 mins | English subs

Producer: Jasminatha Teo
Director: Tan Chui Mui
Screenwriter: Tan Chui Mui
Camera: Woo Ming Jin, James Lee, Von Felix
Editor: Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Selvan Ramsay
Music: Ng Chor Guan

The director gave at least two reasons why she made a series of short films in a brief period. She moved her office in Kuala Lumpur from a busy Indian area to a tranquil middle-class suburb. A new base and also a new approach, she thought, and she decided to make a short film every month. According to her, it didn't matter whether the films were good or bad; making them was the main thing. The second reason was to have a ready answer to the question posed most often to the maker of a successful first film (in this case the Tiger Award winner Love Conquers All, 2006). Namely: 'When is your second film coming?' That second film takes time, so the answer for now is: ' I make short films. I make one every month.'

(In 2008, while developing her second feature film Year Without a Summer, Tan Chui Mui made a short film every month. This is a compilation of 7 short films she has written, directed and edited, and which she calls, “All My Failed Attempts”.)

Dream #2 He Slept Too Long

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.

Cast: Azura, Johan Nasir

The Need for Rites 仪式之必要
Sook Chen meets a fortune teller on the street. The whole conversation soon becomes unbearable.

Cast: Chua Tien See, Ho Kok Meng
Watch: https://www.cathayplay.com/the-need-for-rites

Dream #3 We Need You to Save the World

Fragments of a dream that could have saved the world.

Cast: Gavin Yap, Liew Seng Tat, Johan Nasir, Mark Teh

To Say Goodbye 是在道别

A girl falls in love with a classmate. She knows why she loves him, but she wants to find out why he does not feel the same.

Cast: Foo Fei Ling, Berg Lee
Watch: https://www.cathayplay.com/to-say-goodbye

Dream #1 She Sees A Dead Friend

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

Cast: Liew Seng Tat, Elfie Jane Jinik

Nobody’s Girlfriend

Made during Tan Chui Mui’s Cinefondation Residency in Paris where she met residents Nadav Rapid and Rusudan Chkonia, who are cast here. The story is inspired by Nadav Rapid’s “Emile’s Girlfriend”.

Cast: Nadav Lapid, Rusudan Chkonia, Captain Ray, Linga
Watch: https://www.cathayplay.com/nobody-rsquo-s-girlfriend

Everyday Everyday 每一天每一天

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.

Cast: Thian See Chua, Loh Bok Lai
Watch: https://www.cathayplay.com/everyday-everyday