Stone Turtle
Zahara lives on a deserted island off the coast of Malaysia with her ten-year-old niece Nika, eking out a living by gathering turtle eggs. Determined to enroll Nika in school, Zahara canoes to the mainland only to be met with indifference by a local bureaucrat. Returning to the island, she meets a stranger who claims to be researching turtles. But his presence unleashes fantastical elements and chaos as Zahara ends up reliving the same day again and again.
DIRECTED BY MING JIN WOO
MALAYSIA, INDONESIA | 2022 | MALAY WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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Stone Turtle
Zahara lives on a deserted island off the coast of Malaysia with her ten-year-old niece Nika, eking out a living by gathering turtle eggs. Determined to enroll Nika in school, Zahara canoes to the mainland only to be met with indifference by a local bureaucrat. Returning to the island, she meets ...