(五月雪)
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER
Drama and Historical | Running Time: 116 minutes
2023 / Mandarin, Malay and Yue (inc. Cantonese)
Country: Malaysia, Taiwan R.O.C. and Singapore
Directed by: Keat Aun Chong
Arab Premiere
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Chong Keat Aun is a Malaysian Chinese director, antique collector and community arts curator. In 2011, he became the first Chinese broadcaster to win Malaysia’s coveted Seri Angkasa National Award. His films have competed in Busan and Taipei, where he won the Best New Director for his first feature The Story of Southern Islet in 2020. Snow in Midsummer is his second feature
SHOWTIME
Wed 06 Dec | 9:55 PM - 11:56 PM
VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 2 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
Fri 08 Dec | 9:00 PM - 10:56 PM
VOX Cinema 3 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
VOX Cinema 3 Red Sea Mall
Price: 40 SAR
ProducerAlbert Yao, Gene Yao, Kew Soon Wong, Wai Thong Chow, Jennifer Jao
CastWan Fang, Pearlly Chua, Rexen Cheng, Pauline Tan, Peter Yu, Alvin Wong
ScriptwriterKeat Aun Chong
On May 13, 1969, Ah Eng and her mother go to see the Chinese opera The Injustice to Dou E, a 13th-century story of a wrongly convicted woman who calls down dreadful weather events on her executioners. That night, sectarian riots between Malays and ethnic Chinese erupt, killing 196 people while the girl and her mother hide behind the stage all night, emerging to find the rest of their family is dead. In a second chapter set 50 years later, Ah Eng returns to the district to try to find traces of this traumatic history. Everything has changed – even graves are being ripped up – but some unexpected encounters reveal how deeply past events have seared and scarred the present.