Anwar Johari Ho
Directing
Biography
Graduating from the University of Reading, UK, Anwar’s thesis short film Forget Me Not garnered accolades at multiple festivals, and his subsequent short, Burung-Burung, premiered at Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (2020), winning the Jury Prize Award at the Mini Film Festival (2021). His next short film, Fish Balls (2024) won the special mention award at the Ngilngig Fantastic Asian Film Festival. He has also directed multiple shorts and web series in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2021. An alumnus of the inaugural Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (mylab) in 2022, he's now developing his debut feature film.
Known For
A man’s genitals are transforming into a snakehead fish. Unable to escape his voyeuristic past, he struggles between the fine line of his humanity and animalistic nature.
Fish Balls
An Indonesian fisherman in a foreign coastal city is disillusioned with his state of being as he has to spend one last day with his foreign lover.
Burung-Burung
Told in three parts, 'Forget Me Not' explores a transnational romance between a Malaysian and a Chinese mainlander, who fatefully meet during a smoke break in London in 1996.
Forget Me Not
A Cambodian escort in Kuala Lumpur offers intimacy through stories, slipping between languages to soothe her clients—until a lonely Korean man’s longing for the past forces her to confront the silences in her own story.