Lim Han Loong

Lim Han Loong

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Lim Han Loong is a Malaysian writer-director and cultural worker whose cinema examines the emotional architecture of memory, migration, and impermanence. Working across fiction, documentary, and experimental forms, his films are marked by a quiet intensity—evoking longing, rupture, and the silences between lives.

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I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear 2024 (6.25)

Gita, a young woman in search of a life purpose, leaves her hometown in China for Malaysia. As she struggles to come to terms with her past and identity, Gita devotes herself to an intense martial arts training course—turning inwards and arriving to groundbreaking epiphanies about herself.
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Sometime, Sometime 2023

Zi Kien and his mother Ah Lin only have each other in their lives until one day, Ah Lin starts dating Mr. Lee. Zi Kien feels his place in his mother's life is threatened, and he starts to change himself. This is a story about a mother and son who care too much about each other, yet pretend not to.
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1304KM: Girl From Sumatra 2017

Di (22), a maid who travelled from Sumatra to work in Kuala Lumpur, has been taking care of a lonely elder at home. From her place, she sees KLCC everyday, and longs to visit there, which she believes to be the symbol of Malaysia, yet she couldn't leave her workplace due to the nature of her job. To Di, Kuala Lumpur is a developed city, where its people are educated and wealthier. She hopes one day she could transform into a person of higher class. One day, Di found an opportunity to visit KLCC by pretending to bring the elder to the "old mansion". In this adventure, she also embarks on the journey of finding her own identity.