KK International Film Festival 2025, Night 5
The Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival is turning 16!
This year's festival invites you to experience films that explore, provoke, and connect. Unlike mainstream blockbusters, these films are driven by ideas, not profits, and they go deeper.
The screenings offer a powerful mix of stories from 11 countries, including family tensions, cultural memory, migration, deafness, and exploding dryers.
KKIFF 2025 promises to be a festival full of imagination, reflection, and discovery.
All screenings start at the scheduled times. Please arrive at least 20 minutes before the start.
Film Line-up
C-Grade SF Movie
Scoffing at prophecies of alien invasion, it wasn't a grand space fleet that drove humanity to the brink of extinction. It was the cataclysm of Earth itself – skies choked with volcanic ash, mutant viruses running rampant – and the AI's ruthless biochip surveillance network strangling survivors in ruined cities.
Beep Beep
When her parcel is at risk of being returned to its seller, Fely, an inconsiderate, middle-aged nurse, rushes home to receive it. She rides a jeep in what is seemingly a mundane day until she meets Caloy, an intergalactic scout with a mission to make the multiverse a better place. As Fely's selfish attitude clashes with Caloy's mission, her ordinary ride home becomes an extraordinary trip to the multiverse.
The Nose Knows: Foreignness And Fortune In China
What can noses tell us Chinese identity, and the PRC's increasingly important place in the world? There are so many different kinds of noses. But what can they tell us? Can they be political?
Throughout Chinese history, noses have been used to separate Chinese people from foreigners.
In the present day, they can also be the key to changing your destiny. If we know more about noses, perhaps we can better understand how China sees itself and its increasingly important place in the world.
Paper Players' War
A Blue Soldier and a Yellow Soldier play a board game trying to outwit each other, struggling for control over a piece of land. The Farmer who belongs to the land is not allowed to play and must pick a side. As the fighting escalates, what side does she choose?
If You Were To Choose
In the final days of the Japanese occupation in 1945 Philippines, a 21 year old Filipino farmer named Julio joins a Pro-Japanese Militant group to provide for his ailing father, until he finds a 20 year old anti-Japanese insurgent named Maria, who has come to seek shelter in his house. With the Japanese grip tightening, Julio must choose between saving his family or Maria to survive the end of the Second World War or perish with it.
The Old Man & The Robot
In a post-apocalyptic future, an aging man struggles to survive alone on a desolate Earth. As his food supply dwindles, he realizes his time is running out. One day, while scavenging in the wasteland, he stumbles upon a broken, malfunctioning robot. Against the odds, the two form an unlikely bond and work together to find a way to survive in this harsh, unforgiving world.
Organiser of this event
How to get to this event?
City Cineplex
2nd Floor, City Mall Shopping Centre, Jalan Lintas, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.