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Aiden lives a busy, corporate lifestyle; he comes home late everyday to a wife suffering from depression who wouldn't talk to him. One night, upon watching a shocking news report, he decides to break his routine; for himself, but most importantly for his wife.
This film tells the story of the three years and eight months that the colonial forces of the Japanese Empire occupied Singapore and Malaysia. The nightmare brought to the Chinese immigrants in Singapore and Malaysia did not stop with the end of World War II, and the physical and mental trauma caused by the war lingered in the remaining memories of the Chinese immigrants.
Arielle Jasmine Van Zuijlen is a young and struggling actress in Singapore. Whilst her parents are overseas, Arielle goes through the mundanity and disappointment of trying to find her next acting gig whilst she's all alone at home.
Follows two North Korean defectors turned social media influencers living in South Korea, as one lives the high life, and the other enrols in the top university.
A pirate is bored of the same old songs he listens to on the ship, so he lands on the shores of Singapore looking for new musical inspirations. This campy parody filled with titles from famous rock songs was made for Reel Revolution 2008, a youth film mentorship program by The Substation.
Karōshi (過労死) is a vast examination into the issue of overworking in contemporary society, the struggles that perpetuate the working class. All that is left is a lingering touch of urban loneliness. The film follows through with scenes of the everyday, the mundane, and the often overlooked aspects of daily life: drawing distinctions between an imagined utopia, and the true dystopian reality.
A landfill community forms its own association to help uplift its children and community before the landfill closes in the near future.
All things in the universe are in constant motion - drifting, vibrating and streaming along with the flow of nature. The screen is an abyss between you and me.
Ah Ping is a widower whose solitary life gets disrupted when his flat is confiscated. As he struggles to navigate through the bureaucracy, he crosses path with a troubled youth and revives this old dog of Mei Ling Street.
A seed is planted. A school of fish washes up onto a barren land. Whilst all the fish leap back into the sea, one wriggles deep into the land.
Ah Girl struggles to accept her Grandma after she becomes mentally ill and emotionally dependent on Ah Girl. The film explores her relationship with her Grandma.
A young dancer struggles with questions of her budding sexuality when touch becomes more than just contact between dancers.
A man scratches the skin he lives in.
Written, shot and edited in just 48 hours, this film had to be in the Detective/cop genre; it had to include the line of dialogue "Look at what you just did, you..." as well as a character named Mr or Mrs Anderson, President; and had to include the mandatory prop of a set of BBQ tongs! The film was shot on location at the Pearl's Centre, Singapore.
After being evicted by the local gangsters, an old carpenter goes on a futile search for his missing cat. As he meanders through the forgotten people and places, he is forced to confront the incurable decay of the town.
Test foatage of a boy opening a box made by Caleb to experiment with lighting and colour
Three queer Singaporean creatives navigate faith, identity, and young adulthood.
Inspired by the bond struck and conversations shared between two strangers in a hospital ward during the pandemic, when no visitors were allowed. The film follows the “Odd Couple” friendship between Rong Liang, a heavily tattooed crew in the local film industry, and Doug, a British expat working in cyber security sales. As they banter and chat over their shared passion for films and their desire to pursue their dreams.
Akim, a single father, battles postnatal depression and the loss of his wife while caring for his newborn daughter, Kasih.
An experimental film about adapting in a foreign land. Featuring excerpts from Memoirs of the Life and Public Service of Sir Stamford Raffles by his widow, Lady Sophia Hull Raffles (b. May 5, 1786, London – d. December 12, 1858).
When hair begins to sprout wildly all over a man's body, his struggle becomes a resistance against subjugation in which the human anguish is palpable. Combining overlaid 16mm and Super 8 film loops, this manic new short by Singaporean duo Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen is an exploration of the relationship between the body and the city in an ever violent society.
Featuring actual correspondence between the filmmaker's father and the caretaker of his ancestral home on Hainan Island over the past 30 years, we take a glimpse into the life of a 65-year-old Hainan-born Singaporean retiree living in the bustling cityscape of Singapore, and the caretaker living in the tropical village of Qionghai, Hainan.
A young unemployed man has difficulty communicating with his girlfriend. As he struggles to cope with his fragile state of mind, a series of mysterious killings unsettles the residents of Block 142B. Some claim to have seen a tiger roaming in the estate. Adapted from Dave Chua’s ‘The Tiger of 142B’, from the book ‘The Beating and Other Stories’.
A magical multiversal arcade machine, and two choices at every turn…will you be able to escape space pirates, save the school from a flood…or maybe both at once? Perhaps you could make it to light…or will you perish in the darkness? Make your choice in this interactive film.
Lifeline is a film about the process of the grief of a suicide hotline operator after facing the loss of someone they cared about.
In parts of Asia each year, during the seventh lunar month, it is believed that the gates of Hell are opened and all the souls are set free to wander the Earth. At this time, many spirits roam around trying to fulfill their past needs, wants and desires. These are the "hungry ghosts".
Thomas rekindles his feelings for his ex-best friend Chanel after she tells him about her breakup. When rumours of her compromising photos start to spread around the school, the schoolboy decides to confront her ex-boyfriend.
From camping out in the Park, to capsule hotels and cyber cafes, we dive into the weird and wonderful world of the homeless in Japan. Their cardboard houses may be painted in technicolor, but the shame of the former day laborer still runs deep.
Cheng, an ambassador of Peranakan Culture in Singapore discovers a painting that propels him to leave Singapore.
Short animation from Kapie Eipak
Little P the Pontianak is the story of a young Pontianak (female vampiric ghost in Malay mythology) who is quite different from her peers.
A social drama set in present-day Singapore, in an estate where cultural and social tensions threaten to divide its inhabitants.
In 1987, the Singapore government, using the Internal Security Act, arrested 22 people in what was called "Operation Spectrum". These people were held indefinitely without trial, physically and mentally tortured, and coerced into admitting that they were guilty of a "Marxist conspiracy" on public television. In this film, ex-detainees share what they experienced during that time.
Downtown viscerally reimagined as an absurdist visual poem.
Fang Lin is a teenager who does not want to exist. Between a stifling environment and a falling out with her best friend, she feels utterly trapped in ennui. Meanwhile, the magic of Singapore’s natural world begins to rumble, threatening to break the leevee.
After a deadly fire in a Beijing migrant workers’ housing block in 2017, authorities launched sweeping safety inspections, forcibly evicting residents and demolishing homes. The filmmaker follows workers across urban villages, observing their livelihoods and reflecting on class realities under China’s household registration system.
The artist and choreographer use oral history and bodies to make visible how deeply the Dutch colonization of Southeast Asia is engraved in the collective memory.
A grieving tattoo artist returns to his late Ah Gong’s home, where fragments of memory and loss quietly resurface. As he moves through the spaces they once shared, he is drawn into a quiet journey of remembrance and emotional closure.
Set against the backdrop of an active volcano in Bali, In The Line Of Fire is a documentary that unravels an intertwining and pensive portrait of two of its inhabitants and their families.
A slice-of-life documentary shot handheld without a viewfinder, MRT City captures the chance encounters of a diverse range of people on the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system from October to November 2023. A pair of convent girls, migrant workers, squid-fishing youth, and tourists are caught chatting about plants, the internet, and “what real life is about”.
Whilst preparing for his church’s worship audition, a boy and his mother’s delicate relationship is tested when a repressed truth finally becomes inexcusable. The Little Pariah is a film about teenage burgeoning sexuality, overt religious indoctrinations, and the lengths we go for the ones we love.
Adopted as a young child, a Malay boy eventually came out as trans. Kristin was accepted by her foster parents, but her happiness was short-lived when both suddenly passed away. Shunned by the rest of her foster family, she was left to fend for herself. Now in her 60's, she tries to seek a balance between her faith, her identity and her beloved cats.
Absent Smile is a loving document of Clang’s parents and their mixed feelings of longing yet support for their son. Using the age-old format of family portraiture augmented with digital means, the spectral quality of absent family members projects a tentative reunion across time and space.
The Olive Depression documents the weeks before a teenage boy enters military service He is determined not to mentally accept what is required of him by law. He opts to prepare himself by maintaining his melancholy about something against what it means to be human. However, seeing the depression of his best friend who enters the army before him and the worry of his parents lead him to question his principles. As he strives not to succumb to the government's world view, he finds it increasingly difficult to be contented and sad at the same time.
A building in Singapore. Inside it, three people seemingly disconnected not only from each other but from the world as a whole. Social distancing is not just a WHO health protocol, it is a state of being among people within a society that, instead of living, performs life. An audiovisual work that manages to think of the pandemic as an aesthetic experience, an atmosphere, and not as a “theme”.
Women in Rage imagines the anger of mythical female monstrosities—Medusa, Pontianak, Rokurokubi, Venus, Lilith and many other ladies—from whom we have inherited the figure of the supernatural woman. By turning the lens away from the myth towards the antagonist, this animated short film rages with their injustices, prejudices, subjugation, and bodies. Stories are our inheritance. To dismiss the formation of a hero or villain is to lose an understanding of our culture and values. We know of female monstrosities, yet rarely hear of the suffering that made them the antagonist. By foregrounding their pain and anger, we learnt to listen deeply and give consideration to their bodies and pain. Art is a humane practice in imagining the Other. These women are angry. So are we.
Working mum Alice cares for both her son Ashton and her second husband Vincent, who suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). When some complications arise regarding the future of Ashton's education, the couple is forced to decide on how to juggle their lives.
A newspaper delivery boy falls in love with an ice-cream girl who can never seem to smile. He works hard to earn money in hope to make her life happier.
“Strangers” tells the story of a mother, a daughter and a daughter-in- law, outwardly bound by kinship but inwardly, devoid of any emotional closeness. When a forbidden former relationship is rekindled between the latter two, the household is forced to confront a disconcerting truth.
An underprivileged scholar from India obsessed about gaining admission into an Ivy League School lies about receiving an acceptance letter from Harvard University and ends up in the opulent world of his peers.
Liyah, a single mother, caught between the responsibilities of caring for her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and raising her 12-year-old daughter, discovers that an enchanted cello can briefly restore her mother’s memories, but at the cost of her daughter’s hearing. Although the music temporarily brings warmth and clarity to her mother, Liyah clings onto the false hope, building tension between her and her daughter, forcing her to choose between the two.
A colonial-era propaganda film shot on a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia exists now only as a hazy memory of a Singaporean man. Meanwhile, his recollections of a former fetish partner from the region helps to fill in the gaps forgotten by the film.
The Age of Revelation tells the tale of a mythic figure who wanders through the world and observes the slowly growing disconnection between humanity, nature, and humanity’s innate spirituality. A sound-film collaboration between SAtheCollective and filmmaker Liao Jiekai as part of an artist commission by the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, this film features choreography by performance artist Effendy Ibrahim and participation by local performers and dance artists as the cast.
Narrated in Kristang, a critically endangered creole language of Portuguese Eurasians, Saudade reimagines rituals of early Eurasian kampongs to tell a story of loss and displacement.
The film explores how love evolves within marriage.
In search of her lost son, a beleaguered Mahia enters a mystical forest. Chancing upon an otherworldly apparition, her grip on reality begins to fracture.
Untold stories of migrant workers’ hardships and sacrifices, the very people who built the lavish and luxurious Singapore we know, are conveyed through the eyes of Vijay.