{"id":14595,"date":"2022-08-14T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14595"},"modified":"2022-08-14T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:05:38","slug":"malaysian-thriller-stone-turtle-wins-fipresci-prize-at-locarno-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14595","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian thriller ‘Stone Turtle’ wins FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Locarno, Switzerland, August 14<\/strong> — Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin’s latest project Stone Turtle, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival 2022 last Thursday has bagged the FIPRESCI Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filmed in Terengganu in January 2022, Stone Turtle is a Malaysian-Indonesian time-traveling thriller about a woman living on Malaysia\u2019s east coast and her deceptive entanglements with a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone Turtle was produced by Greenlight Pictures and it marks the first for a Malay language film to be selected for Locarno\u2019s main category, the coveted Golden Leopard award.<\/p>\n\n\n

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FIPRESCI Prize is awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics \/ F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de la Presse Cin\u00e9matographique (FIPRESCI) to the best film in the competition. The jury of FIPRESCI consists of international film journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woo, producer Edmund Yeo and the film’s main stars Bront Palarae, Asmara Abigail, and Amerul Affendi attended the film’s premiere at the Palexpo Cinema together with some 3,000 guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explained Woo, Stone Turtle not only tells a universal story that mixed genres but also highlighted Malaysia’s beautiful locations and folklores, including Legenda Batu Penyu, which forms the film’s title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Twitter<\/a> post by FIPRESCI, Stone Turtle “offers a multiplicity of perspectives on urgent themes such as violence against women, the question of who has a right to citizenship, and the way we deal with our natural environment.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is a film that truly inspired us through its multilayered whirlwind of perceptions and sensibilities,”<\/em> wrote the jury: Dana Linssen (The Netherlands) – president, Martin Horyna (Czech Republic), M\u00fcge Turan (Turkey), Peter Kremski (Germany), Sarah Stutte (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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