Stone Turtle

Adorably beautiful and award-winning drama from a small island in Malaysia, where the women seek violent revenge on the men who oppressed them.

Zahara is a stateless refugee from the Aceh province of Indonesia and now lives with her niece on a largely unpopulated small island in Malaysia. There, she earns a living by selling eggs from rare turtles. Despite difficulties with the authorities, they have found a sanctuary on the small island – in connection with other women. But one day a man who claims to be a scientist appears, interested in a rare turtle, but his intentions will turn out to be different from those he states. A crackling and compelling adventure from director Ming Jin Woo that deservedly won the critics’ prize at Locarno.

• Freddy Olsson