Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival 2017 is an annual film festival. The festival is aimed at promoting and cultivating alternative cinema culture in Sabah while at the same time create a platform for local Sabah filmmakers to showcase their works.
Sabah Film Academy: Georg Zengerling
09 – 16 July
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
The Sabah Film Academy is one of the festival components which provides a hands-on film production training for young emerging filmmakers with the guidance from both Malaysian and international mentors. This year two teams from the Short Narrative stream and one team from Short Documentary stream will work intensively to produce three short films and premier them at the Awards Night on the 16 July. One of the mentors is Georg Zengerling who is an experienced cinematographer from Germany. He is also the cinematographer for the film The Promise which will be screened at the festival.
©Georg Zengerling
The Promise/Das Versprechen
Dir: Marcus Vetter & Karin Steinberger, 130min, 2016 Germany
22 July 2017 @ 9pm MBO Cinema, Imago Shopping Mall, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
The son of a German diplomat and a brilliant student, he developed a complicated relationship with an enigmatic beauty whom everyone admired and secretly desired. The story of Soering and Elizabeth Haysom ended in the brutal murders of her parents. The film—based on a lengthy interview with Soering and excerpts from Haysom’s diary—tells a story of passion and manipulation that would feel at home in a fine romance novel. The film director Marcus Vetter was one of the mentors of the Sabah Film Academy in 2014.
For more information about the festival programs and schedule, please visit:
http://www.kkiff.com/
The festival is in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Malaysia.
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