To celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, Asia Pacific Screens presents a series of short documentaries made by or focused upon women from Southeast Asia.

Women of the Forest: The Hidden Burden of Climate Change

2016, 16mins, Malaysia

Directed by Inshallah P. Montero

Malaysian with English subtitles

Women of the Forest: The Hidden Burden of Climate Change investigates how women in Sarawak, Malaysia, are dealing with ecological issues and responsibilities.

Fragile

2015, 11mins, Malaysia

Directed by Bebbra Mailin

Indonesian with English subtitles

Shown from the perspective of a 12-year-old aspiring singer, Fragile relates the story of an Indonesian family settled in the Malaysian territory of Sabah.

Lives Under the Red Light

2013, 14mins, Cambodia

Directed by Hem Vanna

Khmer with English subtitles

The film examines the life of a ladyboy who has moved to Phnom Penh to work as an entertainer and sex worker.

Mr. Zero คนหมายเลขศูนย์

2016, 41.08 mins, Thailand

Directed by Nutcha Tantivitayapitak

Thai with English subtitles

In this delightful but provocative documentary, Nutcha Tantivitayapitak follows the eccentric writer and translator Bundit Aneeya, who has been charged four times under Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws.

These films are screened in collaboration with the Visual Documentary Project based at Kyoto University.

These screenings are part of Asia and the Pacific Screens Season Seven: Polyphonic Asia, presented by the Australian Centre on China in the World.