Miu Miu Women’s Tales 2024

# 27 I AM THE BEAUTY OF YOUR BEAUTY, I AM THE FEAR OF YOUR FEAR

by Chui Mui Tan
Malaysia, Italy, 2024, 21', color
Screenplay: Chui Mui Tan
31 August 16:30 - Sala Perla
Public, all accreditations

cinematography
Parinee Buthrasri
editing
Kai Yun Wong
music
Chor Guan Ng
sound
Chalermrat Kaweewattana

cast
Sdanny Lee
Jean Seizure
Jo Kukathas
Zhiny Ooi

producers
Max Brun
Jing Xuan Chua
Annie Song
productions
Hi Production
Da Huang Pictures

Gita quits her job in China and moved to Malaysia. She wanted to take time off to rethink everything. Through friendship and fighting she finally let go of her emotion burden and unleashed her inner strength.

2024 # 27 I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty,
I Am the Fear of Your Fear
(short)
2021 Barbarian Invasion
2015 The Beautiful Losers (short)
2010 Year Without a Summer

2009 Everyday Everyday (short)
2006 Company of Mushrooms (short)
2006 Love Conquers All
2005 South of South (short)
2004 A Tree in Tanjung Malim (short)

“A girl from China came to Malaysia to search for herself, but the search can only be inwards. Through wrestling with what we fear the most, we found our inner strength, and find our own beauty.” (Chui Mui Tan)

Chui Mui Tan made her debut feature in 2006, with Love Conquers All, which won the New Currents Awards and FIPRESCI International Critics’ Award at the Busan International Film Festival and won Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her 2021 feature, Barbarian Invasion, a meditation on motherhood and identity, won the Jury Grand Prix of Golden Goblet Awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Her first art exhibition, Just Because You Pressed the Shutter? won the 2022 Jimei x Arles Discovery Award and was invited to exhibit at the Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival.

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