Motif focuses on a police investigation and its most obvious innovation is the female perspective that the director imposes. Protagonist Dewi (Sharifah Amani) is a police officer who is sent from the capital of Kuala Lumpur to a provincial area, Tanah Merah (lit. “Red Earth”), to investigate the disappearance of the young daughter of the local community’s richest family. From the beginning, her arrival is greeted with distrust by her male colleagues, who are doubly annoyed by the fact of having an outsider who is also a woman intrude in the community.
Nadiah Hamzah
Director, Writer
Sharifah Amani
Dewi
Rosyam Nor
Hussein
Iedil Putra
Faisal
Taqim Zaki
Inspector Rizal
Redza Minhat
Ilham (voice)
Azhan Rani
Kamal
Sherie Merlis
Suri
Fadhli Masoot
Azlan
Nadia Aqilah
Lena (voice)
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