Pendatang (2023) on Netflix
NR20231h 38mDramaSci-FiThriller
Malaysia's Segregation Act bars the country's ethnic groups from mixing, and a Chinese family is relocated to a rural kampong home. They find a frightened Malay girl hiding there.
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- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.7/10216 votes
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Plot summary
In a dystopian Malaysia, the Segregation Act bans the country's ethnic groups from mixing, and a Cantonese-speaking Chinese family is forced to leave its home and move into a rural kampong house shortly after the law is implemented. They arrive to find a Malay girl still hiding inside, frightened. Sheltering her is against the strictly enforced law, and the family weighs whether to turn her away or to move her to safety.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pendatang (2023)
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- Director Ng Ken Kin said he did not think Pendatang would have been approved for local cinematic release by the Film Censorship Board, so the film was put on YouTube for free and is non-profit driven with no advertising revenue.
- Pendatang was fully crowdfunded; Kuman Pictures raised RM335,981 on Indiegogo in 2022. The team chose crowdfunding to keep the film faithful to the script without limitations from government or commercial funding.
