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1) Salawati
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Malay
Description
12-year-old Wati has just witnessed the drowning of her brother. Her mother tries to hold the family together, while her father seeks refuge in Islam. Wati's tracks down a hard-drinking Indian courier and a Chinese man consumed by career goals, who were witnesses in the accident, in this kaleidoscopic slice of life drama from Singapore.
2) Shuttle Life
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Language
Malay
Description
Qiang lives in the big city and struggles to take care of his mentally unstable mother and a 5-year-old sister, Hui Shan. When a speeding car kills Hui Shan in an accident, Qiang is desperate to claim his sister's body. Unfortunately, he can't prove his relation with Hui Shan as she was never registered at birth. Qiang's mother is no helping given her condition, so Qiang is forced to face this predicament on his own.
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Language
Malay
Description
The powerful story of three estranged brothers and their ailing father, whose fates become intertwined in a web of deceit. After a deathmatch in Thailand, one brother, Adil, a kickboxer, is on the run from Ilham, a hitman (and his half-brother). The chase brings them to their hometown of Bunohan where they reunite with their family, and each man's unfulfilled struggle for reconciliation and forgiveness leads to the violence of loss, betrayal, corruption...
4) Apprentice
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Language
Malay
Description
When ambitious young correctional officer Aiman is transferred to the country's highest-security prison, he catches the attention of the seasoned chief executioner Rahim. Aiman's desire to become the hangman's apprentice is not only professional but born of an unspeakable urge to reconnect with a past that haunts him. Far from being a conventional prison movie, this slow-burning psychological thriller is a "stunning" (Film School Rejects) and "tightly...
5) Nota
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Language
Malay
Description
A relationship on the edge - a psychological thriller in one of the most beautiful national parks in Malaysia.
6) Roh
Language
Malay
Description
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. Malaysia's official submission to the 2021 Academy Awards.
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