Gwai Lou (Cáceres, España, 19/10/1982). Gwai Lou (鬼佬) significa «demonio extranjero», es una jerga cantonesa para referirse a los occidentales. La gente lo llamó así en broma cuando llegó a Malasia y ahora es como se llama a sí mismo. Es cineasta no como profesión, sino como una forma de enfrentarse a su propia vida, hace películas como prueba de que ha vivido. Ha dirigido los largometrajes «Somewhere Over the Rainbow» (2022), «Desaparecer» (2020), «Side-B» (2017) y «Many Pieces of Something» (2015). «Kumbang» es su octavo cortometraje como director, después de «Anomaly» (2021), «The New World» (2021), «Target» (2020), «Reset» (2020), «The Girls Are Alright» (2019), «Wounds» (2019) y «The Wanderer» (2007).
Gwai Lou (Cáceres, Spain, 10/19/1982). Gwai Lou (鬼佬) means “Foreign devil”, it is a common Cantonese slang for Westerners. People used to call him this as a joke when he first arrived in Malaysia. Now it is how I call himself. He is a filmmaker not as a profession but as a way of dealing with his own life. He makes films as proof that he has lived. He has directed the feature films “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (2022), “Desaparecer” (2020), “Side-B” (2017) and “Many Pieces of Something” (2015). “Kumbang” is his eighth short film as a director, after “Anomaly” (2021), “The New World” (2021), “Target” (2020), “Reset” (2020), “The Girls Are Alright” (2019), “Wounds” (2019) and “The Wanderer” (2007).
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Kumbang (Bugs)
After cutting himself accidentally during one of his live-streaming sessions, Farid, a boy from a rural area of Malaysia is offered money by one of his followers to do it again....
