STONE TURTLE

YAN GUI CHUAN SHUO

By Ming Jin WOO

PARALLAX FILMS - as SALES All rights, Other

Thriller - Completed 2022

A time-traveling tale of a woman living in the Peninsular Malaysian east coast, who gets entangled with a man in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2022
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Drama
    • Countries
    • MALAYSIA, INDONESIA
    • Languages
    • MALAYSIAN, INDONESIAN, CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ming Jin WOO
    • Writer(s)
    • Ming Jin WOO, Neesa JAMAL , Deo MAHAMERU
    • Producer(s)
    • Edmund YEO (Greenlight Pictures), Ming Jin WOO (Greenlight Pictures)
    • Synopsis
    • Zahara, a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs. One day, Samad, claiming to be a university researcher, visits the island, wanting to employ Zahara to show him around. As the day goes on, Zahara and Samad become entangled in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.