CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, FEMALE EMPOWERMENT, TRADITION AND SUPERSTITION | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, BLOOD DEPICTION, CHILD DISTRESS
Amelia, a 12-year-old Chinese-Indonesian girl, has just learned of a tradition that says women who have received their period must not wash their underwear together with men’s clothes, or the men will face bad luck. Her mother upholds this tradition, even though her father often beats her to the point of near-death. Amelia then decides to save herself and her mother through a witchcraft method she learned about to speed up her period. Slowly, this obsession brings about a change in Amelia without her realizing it.
Daphne identifies herself as someone who always wants to learn about humanity and learn through the phenomenon of loss. Over the last 5 years, she has created several publicly acclaimed short films and has been involved in major feature film productions. She now works as a freelance director and assistant director. Her short films, The Eleventh Body (2024), Happy New Year (2022), And Returning (2019) & Mother (2018) have been distributed and are well received by the audience. She has finished her incubator lab: FLY2023 and Platform BUSAN 2024. Her latest short film, A Tale of Two Nomads (2025), is currently in the distribution process.
