
Singapore Film Database
Threshold
Loo Zihan
2009
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"In a dingy motel room that is as hot and clammy as the jungle painted on its walls, a sexual threesome has been arranged to take place. Except that the two men lying in wait are officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau, ready to apprehend their suspect, who is going to show up with crystal meth at any moment.
Staff Sergeant Boon is garrulous and relaxed; for him, this is a job just like any other. Inspector Anton, on the other hand, is preoccupied and tense, and is increasingly restless. As the wait for the suspect lengthens, it is apparent Anton has something infinitely more personal at stake.
In what appears to be a routine crackdown operation, which walls will come tumbling down, and what thresholds will be crossed? In the film’s tropical swelter, how does one ascertain that everything one sees is not a mirage from a fragmenting mind?"
Song of the Waves
K Rajagopal
2017
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This is a love story about an Indian man who meets and falls in love with a Chinese woman in Singapore by chance, but she discovers that he is actually married back home in India. Told from the perspective of the writer-who is played by more than one actor, and who also plays the character-the film blurs the lines between roles, reality, time and space. The words and text of the writer also interplay with the sound of silence and the actions of the actors and characters.
Pinball
Han Yew Kwang
2001
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Huang, a middle-aged driving tester, has a problem: his 20th Wedding Anniversary is fast approaching and he has to fulfil a promise that he made to his wife 10 years ago - to bring her around the park on a bicycle. But till today, Huang has not mastered the skill of cycling. What will happen on the big day?
Visiting
He Shuming
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Mdm. Wee Bee Lan lives alone. Every week, she buys 4D and spends her time waiting for her family to visit. It is the eve of Chinese New Year, and Lillian, a social worker, is spring cleaning Bee Lan’s house. Together they uncover faded memories, with a bleak hope of what may come.