SNOW IN MIDSUMMER
Genre
Drama and Historical
Running time
116 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Mandarin, Malay and Yue (inc. Cantonese)
Subtitle
English
Country
Malaysia, Taiwan R.O.C. and Singapore
Director
Keat Aun Chong
Bio
Producer
Albert Yao, Gene Yao, Kew Soon Wong, Wai Thong Chow, Jennifer Jao
Cast
Wan Fang, Pearlly Chua, Rexen Cheng, Pauline Tan, Peter Yu, Alvin Wong
Scriptwriter
Keat 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.
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