U-Wei Haji Saari

U-Wei Haji Saari Trailers

Mountain of Gold TrailerMy Beautiful Rambutan Tree in Tanjung Rambutan TrailerBuai Laju-Laju Trailer

Zuhir bin Hj Saari or also known as U-Wei Haji Saari is a Malaysian film director. He first gained the international attention with his film The Arsonist (more known by its Malay name Kaki Bakar), the first Malaysian film to enter the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. He began his career as a director for television dramas until 1996, when he made his film debut with the highly controversial Perempuan, Isteri dan..., which won him the Best Director award at the 11th Malaysia Film Festival. U-Wei produced a period film titled Hanyut(2014), as a co-production between countries Indonesia, Malaysia, and Australia. The film is based on Joseph Conrad's novel titled Almayer's Folly, which tells about Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaya with a Malay community at the turn of 19th century. In2022, he was elected to be the chief jury for the Moscow International Film Festival for the documenatry film category.

Most Popular U-Wei Haji Saari Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

Jogho Trailer (1999)

27 March 1999

Mamat is a native of Kelantan, Malaysia, but he had left Malaysia many years earlier to join his brother Lazim in South Thailand in order to continue making his living as a trainer of fighting bulls (a Jogho).

Buai Laju-Laju Trailer (2004)

09 September 2004

Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.

Mountain of Gold Trailer (2016)

24 November 2016

The story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century.

Black Widow Wajah Ayu Trailer (1994)

12 June 1994

Mas Ayu is a modern woman of the 90s: independent, career-minded and attractive. Except at night, when strange dreams of spiders haunt her sleep and one by one, her male friends begin to die.

Perempuan, Isteri & .....? Trailer (1993)

26 August 1993

Zaleha is about to get married to Amir but elopes to southern Thailand to marry someone else instead.

The Arsonist Trailer (2001)

25 October 2001

The Arsonist involves the struggles of an undocumented immigrant family and a boy's coming-of-age. The son Kesuma must forge his own identity against the intimidating presence of his father Kakang, a man proud of his Javanese heritage and well aware of the social inequalities that allow his exploitation.

My Beautiful Rambutan Tree in Tanjung Rambutan Trailer (2006)

23 May 2006

Atan and Tina are brother and sister. They live surrounded by love in a comfortable house. They play and fight as siblings often do and their parents have no qualms about leaving them alone for an evening while they attend a wedding feast.