“ Wake Me Up When the Mourning Ends ,” the sophomore feature from Malaysian-born, Hong Kong–based director Lau Kok Rui, is being presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market with heavyweight producing support.

The film is produced by Wong Kew Soon, Stefano Centini, Lai Weijie, Bianca Balbuena-Liew, Bradley Liew, and Hong Kong filmmaker Soi Cheang, director of “ Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In ,” which premiered out of competition at Cannes 2024 and became one of Hong Kong’s biggest box office hits.

The multinational structure, spanning Malaysia, Hong Kong, Italy and Taiwan, underscores the ambition behind Lau’s latest work. The drama centers on the three-year mourning ritual rooted in Chinese tradition, still practiced in Malaysia but increasingly rare elsewhere.

Lau says the fil

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