memories, family, siblinghood, grief, generational trauma
After their mother’s death, a brother and sister remain in the house shaped by her control, negotiating conflicting memories of abuse and care. As ritual, body, and memory intertwine, their grief exposes a deeper entrapment, one that persists beyond her absence.
Shelby Kho is an Indonesian filmmaker and writer. Her short films I Took A Nap and I Miss You (2022) and Ocean (2023) screened at Minikino and Singapore International Film Festival. Her debut feature Terbakar won the Most Promising Project Award at SGIFF’s Southeast Asian Film Lab 2023 and is in development with Red Sea Film Festival. She is also pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia University. Sein Lyan Tun is a Myanmar filmmaker based in Paris. His short Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes premiered at Busan IFF 2023 and received a Sonje Special Mention. His films have screened at Winterthur, Clermont-Ferrand, and Locarno. His latest short One Tropical Rain of Love and Guilt was selected for Clermont-Ferrand 2026.
