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- Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
- Six different stories of six couples in a particular room in a hotel in Singapore.
- A young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
- Two brothers named Jamar and Suwo came back to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a Sultan, after years of exile in America.
- Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
- "Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life anymore, ever since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and blind woman of his own age. 2) Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things: good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need, winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color. 3) Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.
- Fast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by system.
- Follow a singer who dies suddenly while on tour in Japan, but her spirit lives on and she embarks on a journey to find humanity in the after-world.
- A story based on the life and short stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga.
- "4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience and appreciation of solitude. "4:30" starts with Xiao sneaking to the room of Jung in the early hours of the morning, and stealing from the Korean man. Just as getting intoxicated is a habit for Jung, who only staggers back to his rented room when drunk, soon stealing for Xiao Wu becomes equally as compulsive. We soon realize that Jung's true intention for staying in Singapore is suicide. It is only through Xiao's encounter with Jung failing in his bid to die that he begins to understand his true fascination with Jung.
- The story is about two good friends who grew up with genuine love for Getai culture.
- Struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother, Kim suddenly has to deal with a new mother in her life. Choon, Kim's father, brings home a woman one day and announces his decision to marry her. A series of mysterious and terrifying incidents start to occur at the family home after their return. Could it be the jealous spirit of Choon's dead wife that has come back to show her displeasure at being replaced? Or is there something more sinister? What unravels is a tale of unspeakable evil that threatens to destroy the family. What deep, dark secret is Na, Choon's new wife, hiding from them? Can Kim help save her family from complete destruction?
- Episodes in the life of ordinary Singaporeans living in one HDB flat.
- En is a Singaporean student that will soon be enlisted in the army. While his mother is away, he has to stay with his grandparents. Thus, he starts learning new things about his missing father.
- Commissioned by National Gallery Singapore, five award-winning Southeast Asian directors created filmic interpretations of masterpieces of their choice from the Gallery's collection.
- Liang Po Po, the feisty 80-year-old granny, decides to join the Triads after leaving an old folks home.
- Chun Feng Koh, a middle-aged food critic whose career is starting to wear him out, decides to explore his life and the development of Singapore through the local food. His patience is tested by the fact that the newspaper he works for is jumping on the digital bandwagon. However, the camcorder his company give him to supplement his reviews with visuals proves to be a blessing in disguise. Koh begins to take the camcorder with him to local food stalls and amasses the stall owners' stories. Hidden within them is the history of how their Singaporean dishes were created.
- A group of underdogs form an amateur football team to play in a local league. The prize for the winners: a trip to the 2002 World Cup Finals. The team include a common man's hero who raises his two children single-handedly after his wife passes away, an ex-con with major anger management problems, a lounge singer struggling against his deadly nemesis - the karaoke machine, and a tender but tough tomboy. The story is built around the team struggle against the odds from no-hopers to title contenders. Through the game of football, the team learns not just sportsmanship, but life lessons that help them to mature as individuals, and ultimately, help each other to become better human beings.
- 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.
- Filmmaker Toh Hai Leong (in reality primarily a critic) more or less plays himself as a cult filmmaker looking for actors for a snuff film. He keeps rattling monologues about film and anything and everything. He lives like a hermit in a squalid flat with his older brother. They denounce the material and sterile life in Singapore, but don't really make their grubby alternative very attractive.
- In the evocative landscape of wintry Hokkaido, Monkeyboy (a young man in a monkey suit) searches for his stolen heart - but even the serene beauty of a mountain cannot redeem the failed connection.
- Two young Singaporeans face the hardest decision of their lives: whether or not to get married. They have been dating for five years and it seems time to make the next step...but is it really the right thing to do? Rory, a thirty year old Yuppie, proposes to his girlfriend, Rachel - and she accepts. This should be the beginning of a great time, as they lead up to the wedding, but it is soon clear that each has different expectations. As they make preparations for the wedding, clashes between them begin as they each seek different things. Tensions rise between them, and they decide to break off the wedding to give each other time to think over just why they are getting married at all. Is it right for them? Do they truly love each other enough? Or is it, deep down, nothing more than an economic decision, to allow them to buy an HDB subsidized flat (for which you must be married to purchase...or rather old). They then reflect on, and explore, what marriage means for them, as compared to what it meant for their parents generation.
- A musical, all-singing, all-dancing, attack on censorship in Singaporean movies
- A brash, irreverent and poetically playful collage of stories about people in Singapore who run away and disappear forever. Two children run away from home and discover an ancient underground network of monsoon drains, tunnels and caves. An army officer obsessed with order and discipline realizes that life isn't so black and white. A painfully shy man reluctantly saves his neighbor and experiences a spiritual awakening. Concocted from a heady mix of realism and poetic fantasy, Invisible Children is sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, but always thought-provoking.