“Seeing this kind of feedback for the first time actually made me quite happy,” Fan tells Variety ahead of the film’s competition premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival. “I hope audiences see not Fan Bingbing, but the woman fighting for the land and standing firm for her people — that I’ve fully immersed myself in the role.”
Set in a late-1990s Malaysian rice-farming village, “Mother Bhumi,” directed by Chong Keat Aun, follows Hong Im, a widowed farmer and ritual healer who struggles to protect her family and community amid political unrest and land seizures. By day, she resists developers; by night, she heals and exorcises. As colonial-era conflicts resurface, strange events unfold: spirits return, black magic stirs, and the legacy of empire haunts the land,…
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