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Raging Against the Machine: Reflections on Pendatang, Abang Adik and Maryam Pagi Ke Malam
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Yee Heng Yeh
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Vulnerable and Exposed: Saw Teong Hin on the Travails of Filmmaking
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WHEN SAW TEONG HIN started his filmmaking career in KL, he began at the bottom rung. But to even get a foot in, he had to leaf through the Yellow Pages from A t...
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Do Malaysian Films Have a Future?
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Badrul Hisham Ismail is the director and screenwriter of Maryam Pagi Ke Malam, a 2023 film about a Muslim woman’s struggles with religious bureaucracy and socie...
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