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Mongrel

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Mongrel

2024

2h 8m

Drama

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Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

Namrata Joshi

The New Indian Express

Mongrel leaves one with a sombre, sobering, ambiguous feeling—of rare grace amid utter despair.

Sep 24, 2024

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Josh Slater-Williams

IndieWire

Chiang’s tough but affecting film taps into tragically universal notions of feeling invisible or ineffectual in one’s day-to-day survival. These concepts are most certainly not lost in translation.

Rated: B

May 20, 2024

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

This movie requires patience and attention, a calibration of your viewing expectations to match its stasis. Yet it’s an andante tempo that makes its moments of drama, and even sensation all the more striking.

Rated: 4/5

May 20, 2024

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Harry Thorfinn-George

The Arts Desk

... this is a film of great compassion and empathy, even though it doesn't reward its audience with a parting dose of optimism.

Rated: 4/5

May 28, 2025

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John Lui

The Straits Times (Singapore)

Singaporean writer-director Chiang Wei Liang’s unflinching debut feature can be a tough watch. Then again, it deals with a tough subject matter.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 22, 2025

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Kevin Fullerton

The List

Director Chiang Wei Liang has created a stark and austere work of unbroken shots and an unmoving camera, punctuating the rundown setting with viscerally confronting imagery. Within these bleak tableaus is a story of incredible empathy.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 2, 2024

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Wei Liang Chiang

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You Qiao Yin

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Yi-Ching Lu

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Synopsis

Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.

Director: Wei Liang Chiang, You Qiao Yin
Producer: Weijie Lai, Lynn Chen, Yun-ting Chu, Weijie Lai
Screenwriter: Wei Liang Chiang
Production Co: Le Petit Jardin, E&W Films, Deuxieme Ligne Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 2h 8m