COMMENT | A frame at a time: Kelantan’s pioneering film festival

COMMENT | Thirty years on since the closure of its cinemas, Kelantan recently featured its first small-scale film festival.

Hosted at the Hokkien Huay Kuan Kelantan (Hokkien Association of Kelantan) building in the heart of the city, Pesta Filem Kota Bharu 2023 was born out of a collaboration between Amir Muhammad (Kuman Pictures), publisher Zaidi Musa, journalist/video producer Ang Wu Chong, and a collective of independent Kelantanese filmmakers.

The festival opened with a series of documentaries featuring...