Celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival with Beamafilm and Hungry Ghost Diner
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16/08/2024
At Beamafilm, we love celebrating cultural traditions that are rich in history, meaning, and unique stories. This month, we’re diving into one such occasion—the Hungry Ghost Festival. A vibrant and fascinating event celebrated in China and in various parts of Southeast Asia, it honours wandering spirits and ancestral ghosts with offerings of food, joss paper, and incense. It’s a time when the boundary between the living and the dead is believed to blur, leading to rituals, festivals, and even ghostly encounters.
To get into the spirit of the Hungry Ghost Festival, we recommend our gorgeous new Malaysian film, Hungry Ghost Diner. This delightful film blends supernatural elements with a touching family story. It’s the perfect companion for the festival season—where humour, heart, and a little ghostly mischief all come together.
We'd like to wish you a wonderful Zhongyuan Festival and invite you to join the celebrations by streaming the acclaimed and newly-remastered Hungry Ghost Diner directed by We Jun Cho of Kinoviuals Films Malaysia.
A Ghost Month cinema screening followed by a Q&A with the film's director We Jun Cho and producer Benji Lim will also be held at 1 pm on 1 September 2024 at 蕭氏機構 Chinatown Cinema in Melbourne.
If you can't make the Melbourne screening, watch Hungry Ghost Diner on Beamafilm anytime, anywhere. Celebrate the festival with a ghostly tale that will enchant you and offer a captivating, heartfelt way to join the Ghost Month festivities and beyond.
As an additional bonus, we've laid out an Asian film feast to inspire, delight and astound you in our watchlist below.
Watch for FREE with a participating library card or on a 30-day trial. Also, you can rent a film for 48 hours.
Forced to take refuge in her family's old coffee shop in Kuala Lumpur when stranded during a sudden COVID-19 lockdown during the Hungry Ghost Festival, Bonnie meets the ghosts of deceased relatives returning for a visit.
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A father and his daughters experience generational conflict at the dinner table.
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With the help of a Buddhist monk, Tevya Heller celebrates Buddha's birthday and gets in a food fight!
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Johan, a middle-aged, talented photographer is forced to take an entry-level advertising job to support his pregnant wife. One day, a young skater named Ali pop’s a kickflip in his office car park.
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A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
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Set in New York City's Chinatown, a Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck - and in the middle of a gang war.
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A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
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A group of high school friends reunite, having not seen each other since one of their friends disappeared.
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Vanishing Asia is an 8-part documentary series focusing on disappearing cultural heritage, traditions and customs in Asia.
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A taxi driver goes on the run after an attempt to carry out a hit on a professor goes terribly awry.
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Harry Yuan returns to China after living abroad and travels along the Yangtze River to explore its impact on Chinese communities and heritage.
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Five films accompany a travel writer on a mission: Bradley Mayhew, 40, a senior writer for Lonely Planet Publications re-travels the Silk Road on the tracks of its most well-known voyager: the mediaeval traveller and writer Marco Polo.
This four-part series uncovers legendary tales of herbal hunters and stories of herb cultivators who use traditional Chinese medicine in clinical practice.
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive.
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This five-part series takes a look at the history and culture of China, from the time of Mr Kong, (known as Kong Fu to the Chinese and as Confucius to the outside world) to the present day.
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When a private eye takes a case to find a missing university student, he must explore the deep dark depths of his own mind to uncover the truth around his own childhood disappearance as he tracks down the missing girl.
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An insight into the complexities that faced modern China in its rise to become the great power of the twenty-first century.
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