At The Malacca Strait, a crucial shipping lane between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, the rise, rivalries, and power struggles of three formidable women—Rafah, Kartika and Layla—shape their criminal realm.
The short film is an adaptation of Ninot Aziz’s Kirana: Dream After the Rose, which centres on Tun Fatimah, the last queen of Melaka. The story is not a straightforward retelling of Tun Fatimah, but instead features a modern twist. The setting of the plot takes place both in present-day Melaka and the use of visual effects aims to capture the city in all its glory during the 16th century.
STRAIT OF MALACCA, 1599. The Dutch fleet under the command of Cornelis broke through the Strait of Malacca, burning villages and killing the men defending the land of Aceh, leaving behind women who had lost their husbands. In the midst of destruction, they chose not to become victims. Those women took up arms and formed a force the enemy never reckoned with: an army of widows! When the Dutch came to conquer Aceh, they encountered something far harder to subdue than any war fleet in the world: women fighting to defend their homes and protect their children.
Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not love. Not long after the wedding Carter is on his way to Malaysia, accompanied by his wife, to take up a post in the British colony. During the long sea voyage, Audrey becomes acquainted with the handsome Prince Selim, the heir to the Malaysian throne. Life in the province of Malacca soon proves disagreeable to the free-spirited Englishwoman and she becomes a social outcast when her amorous affair with the prince is discovered.
In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."
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