This event is part of the &ldquo;Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand 2024,&rdquo; sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Culture Office in Thailand. There will be a Q&amp;A session with the director after the film screening. &#39;Absent without Leave&#39; director, Lau Kek huat, is from Perak, Malaysia and received his bachelor&#39;s degree and master&#39;s degree in Taiwan&rsquo;s NTUA Department of Motion Picture. Lau is a Taiwan citizen now. The film begins with a picture that has been on the wall for more than 30 years in the director&rsquo;s family home in Perak, Malaysia. The people in it sacrificed their lives fighting for independence, but their stories have remained untold for 60 years. It is a long-standing taboo in the director&rsquo;s family not to talk about one of the men in the picture --&nbsp;to the extent that even bringing up his name and his past creates disdain among the director&rsquo;s older relatives. Eventually, the director finds out that his grandfather died fighting for Malaysia&rsquo;s independence, but his comrades&rsquo; stories are excluded from Malaysian history. This documentary set out to unveil these mysteries.