My heartiest congratulations to the directors who passed the censors.
‘I LOVE MALAYA’ World Premieres
25th Nov, Sat, 7pm
Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum
A documentary film by
Chan Kah Mei, Ho Choon Hiong, Eunice Lau, Christopher Len & Wang Eng Eng
In 2005, an 81-year-old man sued the Malaysian government for denying him entry into the country of his birth. Chin Peng was the leader of the Malayan Communist Party, which waged the longest and most difficult war lasting more than 30 years, first to overthrow the British colonial government and then against the Malaysian state.
When peace was finally secured in 1989, more than 200 former guerillas returned to Malaysia. But Chin Peng was not one of them. In fact there are many like him who have remained in southern Thailand, as stateless aliens, unable to step foot into the country they had given their lives fighting for.
I Love Malaya is the story of their journey home.
