Screened as part of NZIFF 2019

Fly By Night 2018

Sebelum pagi berakhir

Directed by Zahir Omar

This gripping heist-thriller… depicting a dark underbelly of Kuala Lumpur teeming with violent triads and corrupt cops… raises the bar of Malaysian genre cinema.” — New York Asian Film Festival

Malaysia In Cantonese, English, Malay and Mandarin with English subtitles
101 minutes DCP

Director

Producers

Mo Bahir
,
Leonard Tee

Screenplay

Ivan Yeo
,
Frederick Bailey
,
Dain Said
,
Zahir Omar

Photography

Low Soon Keong

Editor

Dom Heng

Production designer

Nick Wong

Costume designer

Esther Teh

Music

Zane

With

Sunny Pang (Tailo)
,
Jack Tan (Gwailo)
,
Fabian Loo (Sailo)
,
Eric Chen (Ah Soon)
,
Bront Palarae (Inspector Kamal)
,
Frederick Lee (Jared)
,
Ruby Yap (Michelle)
,
Pearly Chua (mother)
,
Joyce Harn (Reanne)
,
Shuan Chen (Marcus)
,
Sarah Lian (Jules)
,
Joko Anwar

Festivals

Busan 2018

Elsewhere

This Kuala Lumpur crime syndicate made up of cabbies will have you looking over your shoulder next time you’re dropped home. Working a lucrative racket, the crew are given a heads-up on wealthy passengers arriving at the airport and take detailed notes on their fares, figuring out later which information and threats can best extort cash out of them. Led by Tailo (Sunny Pang), they’re on to a good thing until police start to take an interest and some of the gang grow reckless and greedy. Chaos is accelerated when Ah Wai (Fabian Loo) bites off more than he can chew on a side hustle and draws the ire of a criminally connected casino owner (a rivetingly over-the-top Frederick Lee). Their once-cruisy capers are now at risk of turning into a flaming wreck.

“A bloody, vivid, polished crime thriller with style to burn and a grim, fatalistic heart, and which adheres to its genre conventions while managing to make them seem fresh and unpredictable… Above all, it feels like there are actual emotional stakes involved as a secondary narrative about a family on the verge of collapse emerges amid the violent clutter.” — Elizabeth Kerr, Hollywood Reporter