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Malaysian-Indonesian Crime Thriller ‘Silent Village’ Takes Cues From Historic Murder Case at JAFF Market
Malaysian director Ho Yuhang and producer Lorna Tee are presenting their crime thriller project 'The Silent Village' at the JAFF Market in Jogja.
Malaysian director Ho Yuhang(“Sanctuary”) and producer Lorna Tee(“Viet and Nam”) are presenting their crime thriller project “The Silent Village” (Aman/Damai) at the inaugural JAFF Market in Yogyakarta (Jogja), bringing a politically charged narrative inspired by one of Indonesia’s most notorious criminal cases. The film follows a homicide detective investigating a murder in a tranquil village, where the discovery of a female body in a sugarcane field leads to connections with an unsolved human trafficking case from five years earlier. Set against the backdrop of mounting political pressure during an election season, the story draws parallels between local authority figures and historical patterns of power abuse in Southeast Asia.
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