Short film
Firefly
2018 · 20 min
A quiet, reflective documentary that drifts like memory, asking patience as it lingers on history and displacement.
- Directed by
- Lau Kek-huat
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- A story about ethnic Chinese Malaysians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: as they traverse the lands in the South China Sea, they become like fireflies quivering upon the dark waters.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Immigration, identity, memory, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Lau Kek-huat
- Genres
- Documentary