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FLY BY NIGHT

Year 2018
Runtime 101 mins
Language Malay, Chinese, English
Subtitles English Subtitles
Canadian Premiere

An electrifying neo-noir that dives deep into the Kuala Lumpur underworld and depicts a taxi extortion operation fuelled by two brothers.

Tailo (Sunny Pang) runs a taxi extortion ring with the aid of his younger brother Sailo (Fabian Loo) and two other friends. Tailo prefers to keep things low-key and blackmail smaller targets in order to avoid attracting attention. However, his brother Sailo has other ideas and wants to make lots of money. Sailo’s actions result in a sequence of events which draw the anger of a local triad boss. To make matters worse, the police led by inspector Kamal (Bront Palarae) are closing in on the operation.

Malaysian cinema isn’t associated with neo-noirs but Zahir Omar’s pulsating and gritty debut takes the essence of the criminal landscape covered by Hong Kong crime films and firmly plants it on Malaysian soil.

Written by Sachin Gandhi

Countries

Malaysia
Festivals
Busan International Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Director
Zahir Omar
Executive Producer
Perin Petrus, Farouk Aljoffrey, Joanne Goh
Producer
Mo Bahir, Leonard Tee
Screenwriter
Frederick Bailey, Dain Said, Ivan Yeo
Cinematographer
Low Keong
Cast
Sunny Pang, Jack Tan, Fabian Loo, Eric Chen