Bunohan (2012)

Directed by

Dain Said

Genre

drama film, action film, thriller film

Country

Malaysia

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three brothers from a troubled family reunite in a remote Malaysian village. Old secrets and rivalries lead to brutal confrontations that force them to face their past.

grittyvisceralintensedarkmelancholicslow-burnbroodingrawviolent

What happens

Bunohan (also under the international title of Bunohan: Return to Murder) is a 2011 Malaysian Malay-language action drama film, written and directed by Dain Iskandar Said. The film features actors Faizal Hussein, Zahiril Adzim and Pekin Ibrahim in leading roles. Bunohan is the second film to be directed by Dain Said. Bunohan had its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival where it was praised for its solid, visceral storytelling and arresting photography. Bunohan won NETPAC Award at the 2011 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. The film was selected as Malaysia's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for the 85th Academy Awards in February 2013, but it did not make the final shortlist. This is the second film to be submitted to the Academy Award since Puteri Gunung Ledang in 2004. Bunohan received thirteen nominations for the 25th Malaysia Film Festival and won eight awards, including the five major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Story, Best Screenplay and Best Actor/Actress, the first time since 2003's KL Menjerit while being the second most awarded film on the Malaysia Film Festival of all time after Layar Lara. The film also earned four Anugerah Skrin nominations, winning the categories for Best Picture and Best Screenplay, while being nominated for Best Director (Dain Said) and the Best Actor (Faizal Hussein) categories. The film joins a few other Malaysian films including Jogho (1997), Wayang (2008) and Budak Kelantan (2008) which gives an emphasis on the lives of people of the east coast state of Kelantan, either residing in it or migrated elsewhere across the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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