A Place Called Silence – Sam Quah – 119’ (China) – CENAS EVENTUALMENTE CHOCANTES
March 5 • 7:30pm • Room 1
An original horror story set in a school environment. A deaf girl is suffering a severe bullying by her classmates. Her mother, who is a school cleaner and makes money selling jams, lives through her daughter’s drama without anyone helping her. Zaifu, a man whose daughter was killed, seems to be helping her. Revenge is on the way. But everyone apparently does nothing at all, which leads to more violence. Considered one of the biggest revelations on the Chinese film scene, it won the Audience Award at the Taipei Film Festival.
Sam Quah
A Malaysian writer and film director whose film career began when he was still a student with the movie “Sheep Without a Shepherd” (2019). Winner of four international awards, including the short film “The Free Man” (2014), which also won the Eugene Film Festival as Best Foreign Short Film. “A Place Called Silence” (2024) is his second feature film.
