News — Aqerat

Aqérat 阿奇洛 (We, the Dead) (2017) – Malaysia [HKAFF 2018] Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Edmund Yeo’s continuation of his promising directorial feature debut in 2014’s “River of the Exploding Durians” comes in “Aqerat”, a difficult film to sit through, but nonetheless, also his most ambitious to date. Tackling the political and universal human rights based the true events on the discovery of mass graves in northern Malaysia of over two hundred Rohingya refugees, buried by Malaysian human traffickers, the film become layers of dream-like sequence and often providing damning of humans losing humanity and eventually mortality. Yeo...