BANGLASIA 孟加拉殺手 (Malaysia, 2015)
Directed by: Namewee
Starring: Nirab Hossain, Saiful Apek, Namewee, Atikah Suhaime

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 slaphappy it’ll set your head to spinning. It begins as the story of a poor Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia who wants to travel home to stop his girl from marrying another man, but when he goes to his scumbag boss to ask for his passport back, complications too complicated to recount here without getting complicated arise, and Banglasia becomes a manic romp about modern-day Malaysia full of shoot-outs, 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-prisoners comedy so outrageous that the Malaysian government banned it outright. We’re proud to screen it as a raised middle finger to stuffy, soulless, bureaucratic prigs everywhere.