{"id":237329,"date":"2025-10-24T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:37:08","slug":"fan-bingbings-mother-bhumi-unveils-trailer-ahead-of-tokyo-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237329\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Bingbing’s ‘Mother Bhumi’ Unveils Trailer Ahead of Tokyo Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA trailer has been released for \u201cMother Bhumi<\/a>,\u201d the latest feature from Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun<\/a>, starring Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing<\/a> in her return to international cinema.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film has its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama, which also stars Hong Kong\u2019s Natalie Hsu, Taiwanese-Japanese actor Bai Run-yin, and Malaysian stage veteran Pearlly Chua, is set in late-1990s Malaysia amid political unrest. Fan plays Hong Im, a widowed farmer and ritual healer who struggles to protect her family in a multi-ethnic rice-farming village while resisting land seizures by day and performing exorcisms by night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film explores how colonial-era conflicts resurface through supernatural events, with spirits returning and black magic stirring as the legacy of empire haunts the land and its inhabitants in Bujang Valley.<\/p>\n

\n\tChong, whose previous film \u201cSnow in Midsummer\u201d won the Musa Cinema & Arts Award at Venice and the Firebird Award at Hong Kong, brings personal history to the project. The director grew up in a rice-field village on the Malaysia-Thailand border.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe legacy of colonialism persists in ongoing land and border disputes, some of which trace back to the 1909 Anglo-Siamese Treaty,\u201d Chong said. \u201c\u2018Mother Bhumi\u2019 follows women from the margins, quietly wielding their feminine power to confront hatred and injustice rooted in borders, ethnicity, politics, and patriarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Fan, the role marks a continued comeback following her appearance in \u201cGreen Night,\u201d which premiered in the Panorama section at Berlin in 2023. She previously won best actress at the San Sebasti\u00e1n International Film Festival and the Asian Film Awards for \u201cI Am Not Madame Bovary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production is a Malaysia-Hong Kong-Italy-Saudi Arabia co-production between Janji Pictures Production, Volos Films Italia and Southern Islet Pictures. Wong Kew Soon, Stefano Centini and Zoey Teng serve as producers, with support from the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum and the Red Sea Fund.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film features cinematography by Leung Ming Kai, costume design by Elaine Ng, and editing consultation by Walter Fasano. The original score is composed by Yii Kah Hoe and Chong himself, with sound design by Tu Du-Chih and Fiona Chang.<\/p>\n

\n\tDialogue is in Mandarin, Hokkien, Thai and Malay, reflecting the multi-ethnic setting of the story.<\/p>\n

\n\tRediance is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer here:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trailer has been released for \u201cMother Bhumi,\u201d the latest feature from Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, starring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142183,134,70435,142184,344,116851],"class_list":["post-237329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chong-keat-aun","tag-entertainment","tag-fan-bingbing","tag-mother-bhumi","tag-movies","tag-tokyo-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}