'Stone Turtle' eyes Locarno International Film Festival's top prize

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This is the first time a Malay-language film has been selected to the festival's Main Competition section. 🇲🇾

Malaysian film 'Stone Turtle' has been invited to the 75th Locarno International Film Festival. Photo: Handouthas been invited to the 75th Locarno International Film Festival set to take place from August 3 to 13 in Locarno, Switzerland.

On top of that, it has also been selected in the festival's international competition section as one of 17 films vying for the Golden Leopard award which is the festival's top prize. The news was shared by Greenlight Pictures, which produced the film, stating that"this is the first time in history that a Malay-language film has made it to the Main Competition stage in Locarno, widely regarded as a top five most prestigious film festivals in the world".

The company further shared that Woo is also contending in the Best Director category, and the film's lead actors, Bront Palarae and Indonesian star Asmara Abigail, are in the running for the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the festival.from Azerbaijan director Hilal Baydarov,

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