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World Premiere at Fuzhou's 10th Silk Road International Film Festival: Rain Town, a feature film by Current Pictures Sdn Bhd.

Redha is a love letter to individuals with autism, but more to the caring parents

Tunku Mona Riza, who took home Best New Director at the Malaysia Film Festival in 2016 for Redha, received another recognition recently for her contribution to the autism community. Photo: SHAARI CHEMAT/The Star Redha director Tunku Mona Riza was recognised by the Ministry Of Women, Family and Community Development and the National Autism Society of...

Malaysian film Redha received the Audience Choice Award at the Luang Prabang Film Festival in Laos on Dec 18. According to a press statement, the winning film was decided by a five-star online rating system where viewers submit their score of a film after its screening. A total of 32 Southeast Asian films were selected to be screened at the Luang Prabang Film Festival.

Beautiful Pain is a moving and unusually realistic portrayal of a couple coming to terms with the fact that their son is autistic. Razlan manages an island resort for tourists and attributes his son Danial’s strange behavior to him being a “late bloomer.” His wife, Alina, correctly suspects that something more serious is going on. With the help of her sister, she brings Da

Redha (Beautiful Pain), is the first Malaysian film to tackle autism. In her feature directing debut, Tunku Mona Riza delivers a quiet, compassionate look at the condition which afflicts one in 160 children, according to the World Health Organization. Working with the title, Redha (from the Bahasa Malaysia word which means “acceptance”), Riza calmly tells...

'Beautiful Pain,' a drama exploring one family’s experience of autism, is Malaysia’s submission to this year’s Academy Awards.

Eighty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the foreign-language film category for the 89th Academy Awards, the Academy announced Tuesday. Among the countries vying for Oscar’s attention: Yemen, which submitted Khadija Al-Salami’s I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced, its first entry ever. A number of the films have already made a name for...

The Malaysian movie Redha won a number of awards at the XXII Kazan International Muslim Film Festival this September. Now the film is submitted to the Academy Awards longlist as a candidate for becoming the Best Foreign Language Film. However, this is the very beginning.

Kuala Lumpur, 4 Oktober 2016 – Filem Redha arahan Tunku Mona Riza terbitan Current Pictures Sdn Bhd telah dipilih secara rasmi oleh Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia (FINAS) menerusi Jawatankuasa Festival Filem Antarabangsa untuk mewakili Malaysia bagi kategori Filem Bahasa Asing Terbaik di Anugerah Akademi ke-89 (Oscar) yang dijadualkan berlangsung pada 26 Februari