A trailer has been released for “ Mother Bhumi ,” the latest feature from Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun , starring Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing in her return to international cinema.

The film has its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival .

The drama, which also stars Hong Kong’s Natalie Hsu, Taiwanese-Japanese actor Bai Run-yin, and Malaysian stage veteran Pearlly Chua, is set in late-1990s Malaysia amid political unrest. Fan plays Hong Im, a widowed farmer and ritual healer who struggles to protect her family in a multi-ethnic rice-farming village while resisting land seizures by day and performing exorcisms by night.

The film explores how colonial-era conflicts resurface through supernatural events, with spirits returning and black magic

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