Director: Yasmin Ahmad
Screenplay: Yasmin Ahmad
Cinematographer: Keong Low
Editing: A. Jamaludin
Art Director: Zaini Abdul Lattif
Music: Ahmad Hasnim, Inom Yon
Casting: Mohd Syafie Naswip, Sharifah Aryana, Salehuddin Abu Bakar, Yasmin Ahmad, Sharifah Aleya, Adibah Noor
Production: Grand Brillance Sdn. Bhd, MHZ Film Production
Distribution:
Les Films du Préau
14 rue des Taillandiers
75011 Paris
Tel: 00 33 1.47.00.16.50
Fax: 0033 1.47.00.16.51
Mail: [email protected]
www.lesfilmsdupreau.com
Year: 2006
35 mm, Color, 94 min,
OV malays with French subtitles
In a Muslim Malaysian village, Orked's parents' attitude arouses criticism and jealousy: they dare openly express their love and bring up their daughter as a boy. Orked enjoys playing with boys, and one day, during a football match, she meets Muskin who soon becomes her first love.
With this tender story of a first love, Yasmin Ahmad portrays Malaysian society today with deep sensibility. She also depicts how relationships between adults can be distorted by the burden of traditions. With this third feature film inspired by her own youth, she succeeded to make a sensitive and light film able to move all the generations. “The starting point of my film is a poem entitled “First Love” which says that a first love is often less tumultuous and passionate than the following ones, yet a first love is remembered our whole life.” Yasmin Ahmad.
