25TH JANUARY, MONDAY 7PM – 10.15PM

SHORTS PROGRAMME A

7PM – 8.30PM

NC16

Programme   Duration / Rating
A Lion’s Pride  Wesley Leon Aroozoo 8min / PG

During Chinese New Year, the lion dance lion is appreciated for ushering in prosperity. But for the rest of the year, it is left abandoned, alone and hungry in the forest.

A Lion's Pride

 

LOL.SG Marilvyn Loo 17min / PG

LOL.SG is a feature documentary that explores the local comedy scene and the concept of cultural identity in Singapore. "Lame, cliché, boring." Increasingly, Singapore humour has been labeled as such. However, we offer an alternative and probably unexpected conclusion that Singaporean humour is indeed alive and kicking.

LOL.SG

 

A Bouncy Tale Koh Siang Leng 3min / TBA

A long time ago, animals had no legs and they bounced around on their belly. One day, a strange event occurred and made them the way they are today...

A Bouncy Tale

 

Heart Pain Pain Tay Keng Hui, Antonio 1min / TBA

A gameshow where contestants outdo one another's painful experiences. Stop-motion animation with Lego characters.

Heart Pain Pain

 

Flight Clarissa Tan 10min / TBA

A girl fading away by a window. Rewind to 48 hours earlier. Enter a caged existence, her world of endless white. She longs to take flight towards the beckoning blue sky. Like a paper airplane, will she fly? Lose herself to the dream? Or freefall into futility? A morbid, youthful fantasy within surrealistic settings and synthesized sound, deemed suitable for both the sound and disturbed minds.

Flight

 

Love, Difference Alvin Chia 10min / TBA

A love story between a Malay madrasah student, Ahmad, and a convent girl, Rebecca.

Love, Difference

 

Path Tay Keng Hui, Antonio 9min / NC16

Path is an experimental art film focusing on choosing a path between good and evil. Dream is what you face when you sleep but what kind of dream will you have? Will it be a dream or a nightmare? And how would you define a good or bad dream, as there is a fine line between the bpth of them?

Path

 

Crossing Paths: The Life of Sunny Pang Jerry Fong Jinhui 10min / PG

Crossing Paths: The Life of Sunny Pang is a documentary that gives an insight into the life of Singapore's up and rising actor, Sunny Pang. A man of humble origins, Sunny reveals to us how his life changed from a mere teenager learning martial arts to one of Singapore's finest talents who is well-versed in both aspects of martial arts and acting. In this heartfelt documentary, Sunny also reveals his struggles in life, how he manages to juggle responsibilities of work and family, while carrying on to pursue his own dreams. We also get a rare opportunity to understand the character and being of Sunny Pang better through the various people who have worked and interacted with him.

Crossing paths: The Life of Sunny Pang

 

Meng Xiang (Dreams) Josiah Ng 21min / PG

Meng Xiang is about learning to fight for your dreams, even against all odds. It is a heart-warming account about how Ang Tzer Huei went ahead, breaking the world record in swimming, despite the many struggles and challenges that were against him, when he felt most alone, when even his loved ones doubted his talent and ability.

Meng Xiang
     
Total runtime:   89min

SHORTS PROGRAMME B

9PM – 10.15PM

PG

Programme   Duration / Rating
Hock Hiap Leong Royston Tan 7min / PG

A guy's reverie at his kopitiam takes us back to the 60s with a flamboyant musical number performed in platforms, beehives and flares.

Hock Hiap Leong

 

Kissing Faces  Wesley Leon Aroozoo 11min / PG

‘Eventually crashing. Purposely falling. To rid the feeling. That lastly goes numb.” “Kissing faces” is about a KTV hostess who wishes her life was like a karaoke.

Kissing Faces

 

The Stargazers Kew Lin 28min / PG
An insecure young man, Mike, gets guidance from Twinkle, a star in the sky, to perform at the country's largest music concert and impress the girl of his dreams.

The Stargazers

 

Rust Parissa Tosif 4min / TBA

Shot, edited and produced over an intensive 24 hours, Rust explores an intepretation of the theme 'Pain' given by the Fly By Night 2009 organizers. How do you measure pain? Why can his be greater than yours? We all face it, can it be in numbers?

Rust

 

Crab! Teo Christina Jolene 24min / PG

Seng is a grown man who hasn’t quite grown up. Contented with spending his days at his father’s famous, albeit small, restaurant and lacking true ambition, his life is turned around when his father, Huat, falls sick. Not bearing to agitate his father, Seng has no choice but to plunge himself into the world of cooking, and a position of responsibility that he hasn’t quite the skills for. But this soon reveals itself to be the least of his worries.

Crab!
     
Total runtime:   74min

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