FLY BY NIGHT
An electrifying neo-noir that dives deep into the Kuala Lumpur underworld and depicts a taxi extortion operation fuelled by two brothers.
Tailo (Sunny Pang) runs a taxi extortion ring with the aid of his younger brother Sailo (Fabian Loo) and two other friends. Tailo prefers to keep things low-key and blackmail smaller targets in order to avoid attracting attention. However, his brother Sailo has other ideas and wants to make lots of money. Sailo’s actions result in a sequence of events which draw the anger of a local triad boss. To make matters worse, the police led by inspector Kamal (Bront Palarae) are closing in on the operation.
Malaysian cinema isn’t associated with neo-noirs but Zahir Omar’s pulsating and gritty debut takes the essence of the criminal landscape covered by Hong Kong crime films and firmly plants it on Malaysian soil.
Written by Sachin Gandhi
Countries
Malaysia- Festivals
- Busan International Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
- Director
- Zahir Omar
- Executive Producer
- Perin Petrus, Farouk Aljoffrey, Joanne Goh
- Producer
- Mo Bahir, Leonard Tee
- Screenwriter
- Frederick Bailey, Dain Said, Ivan Yeo
- Cinematographer
- Low Keong
- Cast
- Sunny Pang, Jack Tan, Fabian Loo, Eric Chen
