‘Stone Turtle’ – a Malaysian Film directed by Woo Ming Jin and produced by Edmund Yeo, bagged the Fipresci Prize at the 75th Locarno Film Festival. It was the first time a feature filmed in Bahasa competed in the main category of the Prestigious Swiss festival.
“Stone Turtle” by Ming Jin Woo (Malaysia, Indonesia, 2022), which “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. This is a film that truly inspired us through its multilayered whirlwind of perceptions and sensibilities,” wrote the jury.
The jury
Dana Linssen (Netherlands), Martin Horyna (Czech Republic), Müge Turan (Turkey), Peter Kremski (Germany), Sarah Stutte (Switzerland)
