Every year, Five Flavours brings a deeper insight into the cinematography of a selected country from South-East Asia. The sixth edition presents Focus: Malaysia which is one of the main sections of this year's festival. It is dedicated to the young generation of Malaysian filmmakers who are involved in the transformation of the Malaysian cinema and in their original, daring way present the reality of their country.

The core of the section is a selection of the films from one of the most promising Malaysian directors, Woo Ming Jin, announced by Variety magazine "a new, brilliant, striking voice of East Asian cinema". It also includes titles such as multiply awarded debut from Tan Chui Mui "Love Conquers All" (2006) as well as two recent hits of the Malaysian box-office: "Songlap" (2011) from Effendee Mazlan & Fariza Azlina and "Bunohan" (2011) from Dain Said, the latter of which was submitted to represent Malaysia as the official candidate for the 85th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film category. Both Effendee Mazlan and Dain Said are special guests of the festival.