The Convert

Muallaf

Malaysia

2008

80 Min

Color

English, Mandarin, Indonesian

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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EXEC Rosnah Kassim, Elyna Shukri

CAST Sharifah Amani Syed Zainal Rashid, Brian Yap, Yeo Yann Yann, Rahim Razali, Tony Savarimutu, Hazel Fernandez, Haris Zakaria, Ning Baizura, Ho Yuhang

Two Malaysian sisters, Rohani and Rohana, run away from home to escape their wealthy father’s mistreatment. They find refuge in a small town where they get to know Brian Goh, a young Catholic schoolteacher. Brian is irresistibly attracted to the two girls. Impressed by their extraordinary courage in the face of adversity, their relationship forces him to confront the ghosts of his own childhood. Director Yasmin Ahmad explores the possibilities of emotional survival after being traumatised by loved ones. Through the wanderings of three lost souls who band together and console one another, Muallaf celebrates friendship, forgiveness, and the coming to terms with the past. –moviexclusive.com

Director

Yasmin Ahmad

Yasmin Ahmad (January 7, 1958 – July 25, 2009) was a film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well-known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, in particular her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. However in Malaysia itself, her films are highly controversial since they depict events and relationships seen as forbidden by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam

Her first feature length film was Rabun in 2002. Mukhsin won an international children’s best feature film award and special mention under the children’s jury awards. Most of her commercials and films have been screened at the Berlin, San Francisco, Singapore international film festivals and the Cannes Lions International Advertising… read more

Yasmin Ahmad (January 7, 1958 – July 25, 2009) was a film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well-known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, in particular her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. However in Malaysia itself, her films are highly controversial since they depict events and relationships seen as forbidden by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam

Her first feature length film was Rabun in 2002. Mukhsin won an international children’s best feature film award and special mention under the children’s jury awards. Most of her commercials and films have been screened at the Berlin, San Francisco, Singapore international film festivals and the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival (not to be confused with the other Cannes Film Festival). Her films were featured in a special retrospective at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Singapore, Yasmin is best known for the pro-family commercials she did for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Yasmin was inducted into the Malaysian Advertising Hall of Fame by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia in November 2008.Yasmin was working on her first feature film to be filmed in Singapore titled, “Go, Thaddeus!” when she died. This was to be an inspirational film for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games, based on the book, “Running the full distance: Thaddeus Cheong” by Belinda Wee about Singapore’s 17 year old National triathlete who died after completing the 2007 SEA Games time trial. —Wikipedia

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