Kickflip

Malaysia | 2020 | English/Malay | 101 min | Drama | MOV

Synopsis

Johan, a middle-aged, talented photographer is forced to take an entry-level advertising job to support his pregnant wife after his dream of starting his own photography company shatters thanks to a cheating business partner. Not only does he have to take the verbal abuse of his superior, Cynthia, she makes sure he knows the only reason he’s got this job in the first place is due to bumiputera regulations. Feeling like he’s failed at his one shot at following his passions and trying to come to terms with the responsibilities of being an adult (and one day, a father), everything seems bleak… …until one day he hears a familiar sound – the ball bearings rolling within the urethane wheels of a skateboard – as a young skater named Ali pop’s a kickflip in his office car park. And through their unlikely friendship, Johan remembers what it’s like to dream.

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