Director Chong Keat Aun revisits Malaysia's May 13 racial riots in latest film


Local filmmaker Chong Keat Aun stresses that 'Snow In Midsummer' is not intended to evoke anger between races. Photos: Handout

In 2009, Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat Aun discovered an unmarked, run-down cemetery near Sungai Buloh Hospital while attending a demonstration on leprosarium preservation.

It was here, he learned that the graves belonged to the victims of the “May 13 incident”.

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