Shuttle Life(HKAFF 2017)

Malaysia’s Tan Seng-kiat takes a hard-hitting look at the lives of the have-nots in his home country with this gritty neorealist drama. Qiang lives in a low-income apartment block with his family. At just 19 years old, Qiang already has to bear the burden of caring for both his mentally ill mother and his six-year-old sister, Hui-shan, while trying to make ends meet. After a motorcycle joyride with Hui-shan ends in an accident, Qiang must take on the powers that be to retrieve his missing sister. Unflinching in its portrait of corruption and class divide in Malaysia, this heart-shattering film swept the Asian New Talent competition of this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival with three awards, including Best Picture.