Director |
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| Ho Choon Hiong |
| Special Features |
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| NA |
| Language |
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| English, Mandarin and Malay with English & Chinese subtitles |
| Run Time |
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| 45 minutes |
| Format |
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| Colour, Subtitled |
| Encoding |
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| PAL, Region 3 |
| DVD Release Date |
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| December 2007 |
| Rating |
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| PG |
Official Selection, Freedom Film Festival
Official Selection, Singapore International Documentary Film Festival
In 2005, a 81-year-old man sued the Malaysian government for denying him entry into the country of his birth. Chin Peng was the leader of the Malayan Communist Party, which had waged a long and difficult war, lasting for more than 30 years, to first overthrow the British colonial government and then against the Malaysian state.
When peace was finally secured in 1989, more than 200 guerillas returned to Malaysia. Chin Peng was not one of them.
There are many others like him who have remained in Southern Thailand as stateless aliens, unable to step foot into the country that they have given up their entire lives to fight for.
I Love Malaya is the story of their journey home.
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