Nabil Musawir

First time actor Adam Abu Bakar stumbles onto a movie audition that propels him into stardom as he immediately gets casted in the lead role of the most ambitious actor’s showreel in Malaysia. Adam Ashburn's Showreel is an experimental dark comedy that takes the form of an amateur Malaysian actor's showreel, dissecting and exploring the bizarre Malaysian filmmaking landscape with great cynicism and poetic justice. Adam Ashburn's Showreel is a love/hate letter to Malaysian cinema.

Beneath a dying tree, a man digs a grave, awaiting another arrival. When a silent figure appears, he assumes they've come to bury someone else. But as the truth unfolds, he realises the grave is his own. What follows is not a fight for survival, but a quiet confrontation between fate and free will, between beings that exist beyond human understanding. What begins as a simple encounter unfolds into something far more metaphysical: a conversation between two beings that exist beyond the realm of men. One bound by duty, the other corrupted by desire, both caught in a moment between life and eternity. Set in a desaturated rural landscape, Sakarat: Pohon Yang Sunyi reimagines the moment before death where silence, duty, and rebellion intertwine, blurring the boundaries between the mortal and the divine.