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Banglasia
From director Namewee, the madman behind previous festival fave, Nasi Lemak 2.0, comes this wild contemporary western full of musical numbers and humor so slap-happy it’ll set your head to spinning. It begins as the story of a poor Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia who wants to go home so his girl doesn’t marry another man, but when he goes to his scumbag boss to ask for his passport back complications too complicated to recount without getting complicated occur, and it becomes a manic movie about modern-day Malaysia full of shootouts, nationalist rabble-rousers, anti-immigration fearmongers, riots, invasions, and more jokes, gags, and visual non-sequiturs than are strictly legal. Switching from game show, to action movie, to western, to romance, with dialogue in Hokkien, English, Mandarin, and gibberish, this is a take-no-prisoner comedy so sarcastic that the Malaysian government banned it outright. We’re proud to screen it as a raised middle finger to stuffy, soulless, bureaucratic prigs everywhere, from Malaysia to America.