Diary

Oxide Pang Chun
Hong Kong
2006

Diary is about the crazy psycho struggle of a girl; she creates what she wanted in her diary... Something perhaps everyone of us have thought about.

85", 35mm
Color, Cantonese

about the film

Winnie who once had a happy family and a caring lover is now living alone in her gloomy flat, preoccupied with the making of wooden puppets and writing in her precious diary. One day she found her lover, Seth, gone without a word. Unable to bear the pain, she called her friend Yvonne for help. After listening to her friend, Yvonne advises her to seek revenge and start dating a guy looking exactly like her ex Seth. During a candle light dinner with her new boyfriend, Winnie reminisces her love with Seth, and tells how Seth died in a car accident. However, as she goes further into her story, her words stop making sense, because it is unclear whether Seth had really died in a car crash or had gone down with cancer. Eager to prove her point, Winnie takes out her diary, and starts reading out loud the entry written on Seth death-day.
What danger does her diary hold? !f audiences know and love Oxide Pang, one of the most exciting Asian directors today, for his stunning visuals, flair for the macabre and sheer creepiness.

about the director

Oxide Pang Chun was born in Hong Kong in 1967, where he worked as a VTR operator. He later moved to Bangkok and began to work as an editor and telecine film specialist but has also written scripts and produced Super 8 and 16mm films. Who is Running? (1996) was his first feature film. His important movies include Bangkok Dangerous (1999), The Eye (Gin gwai, 2002) and Ab-normal Beauty (Sei mong se jun, 2004) which has been shown at !f 2006.

awards

2007 Hong Kong Film Awards:Nominated for Best Supporting Actress
European Film Market

screenings

February 15 Friday, 12:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

February 23 Saturday, 1:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1

February 24 Sunday, 7:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 7

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