Before the meeting, she spent some time with Media Prima's group creative director, Peter Chin and was reported to be in a jovial and relaxed mood.
Unusually for a Malay, she speaks some Cantonese, and is comfortable enough in her skin to use it openly, without fear of being thought to be a traitor to her race.
First of all, the purpose of this article is not meant to tarnish the reputation of Yasmin Ahmad, if you are here to look for that, please leave now.
In conjunction with the screening, CEX and Orked Yasmin launched a book entitled "Yasmin, How you know? By the time we next see Orked in Gubra, she has become even more aware of how questions of race and religion intertwine with those of gender.
Her films were featured in a special retrospective at the 19th in October 2006.
In it were her clumsily scribbled observations on the 80s that became the odd Petronas Merdeka commercial decades later.