
Singapore Film Database
Nocturne
Liao Jiekai
2017
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Ever since Jianxiong disappeared a few years ago due to his involvement in underground communist activities, Meifeng has been trying to move on in life without her lover. A visit to his family on Chinese New Year’s Eve brings back familiarity and stirs up unexpected tensions.
mister COWBOY
Ric Aw
2011
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Meet line-dancing fanatic MISTER COWBOY who has to work on the night of the largest line dancing party. Our night watchman escapes the dread of working the graveyard shift by conjuring doubles of himself. Yet this imagination takes a life of its own and begins to haunt and condemn him to a journey of self-discovery.
You're Dead To Me
Min-wei Ting
2014
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The short film takes us to Bukit Brown cemetery and into the verdant forest in which it lies, shortly before men and machines arrive to tear through it. By trailing a solitary character who roams the land and communes with the dead, the film serves as an elegy to a richly layered site on the verge of rupture.
Mothers and Sons
Kelvin Sng
2004
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The film revolves around Bryen, a young boy who lives with his single, working mother. Stressed from the pressures of making ends meet, she constantly scolds him for spending too much time playing instead of studying. She sends him to live with a relative, who is very proud of her university student son who studies all day everyday, and never comes out of his room. Curious about the son, Bryen discovers the horrible truth about him. At the end, Bryen’s mother becomes less strict, having realized that too much study is not good.
Popiah
Royston Tan
2013
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Popiah pays homage to a transient Singaporean family with its past, present and eternal core. As we unravel the story of a son's estrangement from his father caused by their differences in value system and perception of life, this film becomes a lyrical symbol of an authentic form of love that survives against the threat of modernity.