subsequent trial for corruption and sodomy triggered a wave of street protests that gave birth to the 'reformasi' (reformation) movement.

Amir Muhammad's latest film Malaysian Gods revisits the actual locations of the demonstrations, about a decade later, and talks to the people who are living and working there to find out what has changed since then.

An informal seminar titled "Post- Reformasi Malaysian Society and Cinema" will be held before its world premiere to discuss the forces which helped to bring about that unprecedented movement in Malaysian society, its impact on artists and the young, as well as changes that have taken place in national cinema since then. The panelists are author/academic Dr. Ooi Kee Beng of the Institute of South-East Asian Studies (ISEAS), teacher/writer Charlene Rajendran, and Malaysian Gods director Amir Muhammad.