
Singapore Film Database
Distance
Anthony Chen
2010
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A conflicted manager on a business trip is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life.
A young father receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied.
A visiting professor from overseas sets a student’s heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.
Different characters, different relationships, the same humanity; stories about the distances between us and how we live with them.
Paper House
Ler Jiyuan
2017
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Paper House is a short film set against the backdrop of a traditional Chinese funeral and its customs. The film follows the story of a family as they descend into disharmony after the death of their patriarch. The title of the film refers to the old Chinese tradition of burning paper offerings for their deceased loved ones. This short film is a eulogy for this colourful art form that is fast disappearing in Singapore’s modern society.
Bak Kwa
M. Raihan Halim
2020
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Ah-Lim has been selling bak kwa for twenty-five years and his greatest hope is that his only child, Jason, will elevate the business to another level one day. But Ah-Lim will soon be forced to re-evaluate both his relationship with his son and the future of his business when the latter brings an unexpected guest home for dinner...
{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves
Lucy Davis
2021
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One of Singapore's oldest public housing estates runs alongside a former-railway track, property of the Malaysian state until 2011. For 50 years this 10-m-wide zone of indeterminate governance ran through the heart of the city-state, hosting a fecundity of more-than-human activities. One hundred five bird species exist in this patch. Now the land is being repurposed, iconic housing blocks demolished and residents relocated.
The T(h)ree Lives
K Rajagopal
2019
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Rosie Wong, a blind woman, shares a retrospective account about the three lives which shaped her. Among them, Pak Cik Tubi Moh Salleh, who tirelessly helped her cross the road to get to work everyday for 5 years. An actress wears a blindfold and traces Rosie's account of the past in the present, meeting real people.