Southeast Asian Cinema: When The Rooster Crows

Southeast Asian Cinema – When the Rooster Crows is a voice of diversity reaching out for change. Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Garin Nugroho, Pen- Ek Ratanaruang give voice to a region rich in traditions, ethnic groups, languages, politics, and religion. It is cinema, at its purest form, fighting for freedom of expression, documenting the real lives of ordinary people; the underdogs and the outcasts. The amalgamation of these aspects gives birth to an ultra-neo-realistic cinema language currently unique to films from this region.