Soon to screen in the Pusan, Tokyo and Vancouver festivals in Inhalation, the latest short film from Malaysian expat film maker Edmund Yeo. We've covered a number of Yeo's pieces in the past and it seems as though he just keeps moving from strength to strength, finding an increasingly distinct voice as he goes. The only real question now is when does he make a feature?
Bored Mei (Susan Lee Fong Zhi, "The Tiger Factory") works on a pig farm and a butcher shop. One night she takes money from boyfriend Seng (Ernest Chong Shun Yuan, "Woman On Fire Looks For Water"), breaks his heart, and boards a ship to Japan to work there illegally. A month later she gets deported. Her ex-boyfriend Seng picks up her up from the harbour. The young ex-couple spends the night trying to come to terms with how they came to their lives of shattered dreams and forsaken love. Angry words were exchanged, but as morning comes, they realize the inevitability of fate. As morning comes, in the face of fate's inevitability, they inhale in resignation. The sun rises.