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China DailyIsolation Ward, by Adhe Dharmastriya, Indonesia. The second edition of the ASEAN Film Festival returned to Hong Kong last week, once again aiming to foster and celebrate "cross-cultural understanding" and celebrating "ASEAN's diverse cultures", per the festival website. This year's event kicked off with Riduan Sulaiman's classic aspirational immigrant story, Gadong, from Brunei, a country better known for being Asia's sole sultanate rather than its film industry. On the horror-thriller front, Isolation Ward by Indonesian director Adhe Dharmastriya tracks a journalist's quest for answers about a string of mysterious inmate deaths, including her sister's, in a specialized prison ward. Carl Joseph Papa's critically acclaimed The Missing uses rotoscoping - tracing over filmed footage frame by frame to achieve the uniquely mesmerizing visuals seen in Richard Linklater's Waking Life and the music video of Norwegian pop band A-ha's breakout song Take On Me - for a genre mash-up about a fledgling animator dealing with his past.
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