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The Cup

Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen

2020

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"In a surreal tableau, a man with a brewing machine for a head, discontent with the bland taste of the brew from his own body, attempts to do what he can to improve its flavour.
The Cup is a meditation on being in the world, upon the flattening out of life as we know and image it during the coronavirus pandemic. It was shot and produced while the filmmakers were confined to their home during the lockdown period in Singapore."

Absence

K Rajagopal

1997

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After a family patriarch's passing, mother and son set off on different paths to cope with the loss. While the mother finds solace in religion and prayers, the son expresses himself through art. Unbeknownst to them, they are set on a collision course with one another, with life-altering consequences.

No Day Off

Eric Khoo

2006

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This film shows over a period of six years the story of a young woman who came to Singapore to work as a house keeper leaving her husband and one-year baby in her country. It describes her daily hardships and difficulties through her own eyes.

silent girls

Ric Aw

2008

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At 16 years old, what does love mean? Two teenage girls discover that love equals sex. The Internet becomes their impending doom as one of the girl’s sex video gets circulated and a flirty online message gets answered. The girls find themselves lost in the strange world of love. Will their friendship save them?

The Call Home

Han Yew Kwang

2002

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The Call Home sheds light on the lives of foreign workers in Singapore. We discover their world through the eyes of Kasi, an impressionable Indian construction worker. The story starts on his arrival in Singapore and reaches a climax when he makes his first call home.

Samsui Women

Derrick Lui

2010

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In the 1930s, many China women went to Singapore to work as odd job labourers. Many worked till they died, and others never had the chance to go home. This is the true life accounts of 2 of them, known as Samsui Women.

Returnees

Thomas Lim

2015

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Mina returns to Macau for the first time in 12 years, after her mother passes away. She is anxious about meeting her once tyrannical father, and facing her unhappy childhood again. As Mina shares her growing-up memories with her father's driver from Singapore, Han, they both find comfort and ease in making the difficult decision of returning home after living abroad for a long time.

Yangtze Scribbler

Tan Pin Pin

2012

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Colours

Derrick Lui

2007

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The story of a colour-blind girl's journey to find colours in her life. She ends up seeing more colours than she bargained for, but will she live happily ever after?

If For Nothing Else Than For Sunday

Min-wei Ting

2019

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A sensorial traversal of time and space, If For Nothing Else Than For Sunday is a first-person walk through the Little India district of Singapore punctuated by jumps in time. The camera looks, listens, and moves relentlessly straight ahead, breaking only to cut back and forth in time - taking the viewer into streets and alleyways, quiet and deserted one moment, then in the next, bustling with migrant workers from Bangladesh and India, gathered for relaxation, friendship and freedom on their day off. In so doing, they remake this space, however brief and limited, their own.

Hope and Requiem

Eric Khoo

1991

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An abstract view of the loss of hope seen through computer graphics and electronic music.

Appetiser

Derrick Lui

2004

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A romantic dinner turns ugly when a husband chooses to watch football over his wife. A light-hearted look at love.

Tak Giu

Jacen Tan

2005

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The film talks about the lack of soccer fields in soccer crazy Singapore and difficulties of finding suitable fields in land scarce Singapore. It also laments Singaporeans' lack of support for their national soccer and the futility of Singapore's 2010 World Cup goal.

Sin Sai Hong

Royston Tan

2006

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All My Presents

Wee Li Lin

2002

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Still Standing

Kirsten Tan

2018

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Uncover a young man’s dreams behind the building of a historic Singapore landmark, Pearl Bank Apartments.

9:30

Yong Mun Chee

2003

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Chan Kin Fai flies to Los Angeles from Singapore to forget the person he loves. But he ends up calling his love everyday at 9:30 Singapore time.

H the Happy Robot

Ho Tzu Nyen

2010

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Kichiro "Redux"

Kelvin Sng

2016

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Kichiro is a Chinese-Japanese student born to a rich and influential family. Plagued by adolescent boredom, and sick of social pretenses, Kichiro is frustrated with life.

These sentiments are shared by Alex, whom Kichiro meets on a chance encounter in a video store. Their friendship breeds a murderous desire as the two channel their angst into anarchistic violence. Campy gore not for the faint-hearted.

Blackboard Whiteshoes

Green Zeng

2015

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It's time for class inspection. 11-year-old E.T. is worried that he will be in big trouble for wearing dirty shoes to school yet again. With reluctant assistance from his good friend, Tian, he thinks of an ingenious plan to escape punishment.

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