Stories

PEOPLE mature in different ways and at different rates. By way of example, you have probably realised that grownups become serious about money, for instance, at different ages.

FOR Malaysian artist Cheong Kiet Cheng, her seventh solo exhibition, Blue Bird, opening at Wei-Ling Gallery, is more than a showcase of paintings. It’s a personal memoir written not with words, but with thousands of delicate lines, curves and ink strokes.

MALAYSIAN director Lim Han Loong wasn’t entirely convinced that the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) would warm to the charms of his latest short In the Valley, given its languid pace and the way it experiments as much with style as it does with substance.