Washhh
TITLE
Washhh
DIRECTOR
Mickey Lai
COUNTRY
Malaysia
YEAR
2024
DURATION
23′
GENRE
Fiction
Washhh
Late at night in a Malaysian camp, a group of female trainees on duty are urgently summoned. One trainee, allegedly possessed by a ghost, accuses them of breaking the rules by leaving "dirty things" in the toilet. The instructor sternly orders them to clean it up by midnight.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Mickey Lai
Born in Malaysia, Mickey Lai is an emerging filmmaker who graduated with Master of Film and TV Production at Met Film School, London, UK. She is interested in developing stories about diverse cultural values, mortality and self-identity. Her latest short film WAShhh won Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film at the 77th Locarno Film Festival. Her thesis short film, The Cloud Is Still There, has travelled to Clermont-Ferrand, Busan, Shanghai, etc. Besides, the film has also won the “Best Performance Award” at SeaShorts Film Festival 2020 in Malaysia and the “New Talent Award” at National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2020 in Seattle, U.S. Her documentary short, A Worm, Whatever Will Be, Will Be, won “The Jury Award” in SeaShorts Film Festival 2022 and was also selected in Taipei Golden Horse, SGIFF, Toronto Reel Asian, Jogja-NETPAC and Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival. She is also an alumni of Golden Horse Film Academy 2024 and Locarno Spring Academy 2025.
- DirectorMickey Lai
- Screenplay
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Lim Shu Jia
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleWashhh
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2024
- Country of originMalaysia
- Country of filmingMalaysia
- LanguageChinese, English, Malayalam
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Mickey Lai
Born in Malaysia, Mickey Lai is an emerging filmmaker who graduated with Master of Film and TV Production at Met Film School, London, UK. She is interested in developing stories about diverse cultural values, mortality and self-identity. Her latest short film WAShhh won Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film at the 77th Locarno Film Festival. Her thesis short film, The Cloud Is Still There, has travelled to Clermont-Ferrand, Busan, Shanghai, etc. Besides, the film has also won the “Best Performance Award” at SeaShorts Film Festival 2020 in Malaysia and the “New Talent Award” at National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2020 in Seattle, U.S. Her documentary short, A Worm, Whatever Will Be, Will Be, won “The Jury Award” in SeaShorts Film Festival 2022 and was also selected in Taipei Golden Horse, SGIFF, Toronto Reel Asian, Jogja-NETPAC and Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival. She is also an alumni of Golden Horse Film Academy 2024 and Locarno Spring Academy 2025.
