{"id":320385,"date":"2025-12-01T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320385\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:49:09","slug":"psychological-horror-most-mysterious-man-sets-malaysian-co-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320385\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Horror &#8216;Most Mysterious Man&#8217; Sets Malaysian Co-Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIndonesian filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ismail-basbeth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ismail-basbeth\" data-tag=\"ismail-basbeth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ismail Basbeth<\/a>\u2018s psychological horror feature \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-most-mysterious-man\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-most-mysterious-man\" data-tag=\"the-most-mysterious-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Most Mysterious Man<\/a>\u201d (local title: \u201cRaib\u201d) has landed co-financing from Malaysia\u2019s Phoenix Films Sdn Bhd, with the deal finalized during <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jaff-market\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jaff-market\" data-tag=\"jaff-market\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAFF Market<\/a> 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe agreement was signed at the Indonesian Ministry of Culture Booth by Ruang Basbeth Bercerita, the media and publishing company founded by Ismail Basbeth and producer Lyza Anggraheni. The project marks the first fully original concept from Ismail Basbeth developed from inception under the duo\u2019s producer-director partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Most Mysterious Man\u201d follows a craftsman devoted to his wife and three children whose life unravels when he returns home to find another family living in his house and his loved ones missing. As he searches for answers, no one in his village recognizes him despite his lifelong residence there, sending him spiraling into paranoia and violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnggraheni developed the story alongside the director over seven months at Busan Asian Film School. The project previously earned the TAICCA Award at the Asian Contents &amp; Film Market during the Busan program in 2024, and was selected for the Asian Producers Network 2024 at the Singapore International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnggraheni won the MTN Development Fund from Indonesia\u2019s Ministry of Culture in October for her separate project \u201cThe Light of Fire.\u201d She has been developing \u201cThe Most Mysterious Man\u201d through the Talents Tokyo 2023 program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRuang Basbeth Bercerita will produce in co-production with Matta Cinema Production and Phoenix Films Sdn Bhd. The project is seeking additional co-production and international distribution partners ahead of a planned 2026 production start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBasbeth\u2019s \u201cSara\u201d premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and earned him the best director Award at JAFF 2023. He is <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/global\/ismail-basbeth-my-own-last-supper-indonesia-shoot-1236595996\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently shooting \u201cMy Own Last Supper.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesian filmmaker Ismail Basbeth\u2018s psychological horror feature \u201cThe Most Mysterious Man\u201d (local title: \u201cRaib\u201d) has landed co-financing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,180513,179354,344,180514],"class_list":{"0":"post-320385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ismail-basbeth","12":"tag-jaff-market","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-most-mysterious-man"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320385","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=320385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}