SNOW IN MIDSUMMER

Official screening

  • monday, 4 september 2023
Sala Perla
16:45
Wu Yue Xue
by Chong Keat Aun
with Wan Fang, Pearlly Chua, Rexen Cheng, Pauline Tan, Peter Yu, Alvin Wong

(2023, Malesia, Taipei Cinese, Singapore, 116')

Award-winning Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun defies silence with imagination and a very personal language. Snow in Midsummer tells the forgotten story of Ah Eng, who is visiting his hometown of Kuala Lumpur in 2018. Forty-nine years earlier, she and her mother had been rescued by a theatre company during riots after political elections. It was May 13, 1969. The riots had been quashed in a bloodshed. At the graveyard of the May 13 victims, the ghosts of a past tragedy come back into the present to revive a story that history seems to have glanced over.

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