Film screening: Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka

Catch the 10th anniversary screening of 'Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka', a 35-minute award-winning documentary by Fahmi Reza about the Malaya-wide hartal (protest) on October 20 1947. The rakyat were demonstrating against the undemocratic Federation of Malaya Constitutional Proposals devised by the British Colonial Government and UMNO, and the film chronicles the rise of the people's democratic movement in Malaya, ten years before Merdeka.