
Singapore Film Database
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.