Controversial Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad has died. She was 51.
The moviemaker passed away on Saturday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, according to local media reports.
Ahmad roused outrage in her mostly Muslim homeland after documenting inter-racial romances in her pictures.
She was honoured at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, picking up two awards for her movie Mukshin, which portrayed love in pre-teens.
Ahmad also won a string of prizes for 2004 romantic comedy Sepet, which told the tale of a teenage Malay girl who falls in love with a Chinese boy.
Mukshin sparked criticism from Islamic leaders in 2007, who blasted the film for encouraging women to behave like men, branding her work "immoral".
The moviemaker passed away on Saturday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, according to local media reports.
Ahmad roused outrage in her mostly Muslim homeland after documenting inter-racial romances in her pictures.
She was honoured at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007, picking up two awards for her movie Mukshin, which portrayed love in pre-teens.
Ahmad also won a string of prizes for 2004 romantic comedy Sepet, which told the tale of a teenage Malay girl who falls in love with a Chinese boy.
Mukshin sparked criticism from Islamic leaders in 2007, who blasted the film for encouraging women to behave like men, branding her work "immoral".
- 7/26/2009
- WENN
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