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After a years-long struggle with censors, a film adaptation of Malaysian postmodern dark comedy Spilt Gravy on Rice has debuted on Netflix and won awards at home. “It’s, of course, a major relief after so many years of feeling like I was on a very slow roller-coaster ride,” Zahim Albakri, the director of Spilt Gravy on Rice (Ke Mana Tumpahnya.
December 15, 2020
June Lojong in a still from Roh (Soul), the low-budget horror film Malaysia is submitting to the Academy Awards.
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It was quite surprising to see Malaysia, a country where genre literature and films are often censored or outright banned, announce a low-budget supernatural horror movie as its official submission for the best international film category at the next Academy Awards.
Roh (2019), which translates as Soul , is the debut feature of Kuala Lumpur-based film director Emir Ezwan. His clever short film RM10 (2016), which follows the journey of a 10 Malaysian ringgit banknote as it changes hands on a sultry Kuala Lumpur night, won the Festival Filem Malaysia’s best short film award in 2016.