31ST JANUARY, SUNDAY 11AM – 10.15PM

SHORTS PROGRAMME L

11AM – 12.30PM

Programme   Duration / Rating
A Chris Brassington Film Chris Brassington 20min / TBA

A Westerner suffering from a brain tumour arrives in Singapore because it looks like a nice place to die. After visiting his grandfather's war grave and having a last night out on the island, he intends to overdose on his medication and slip away. However, a series of chance encounters soon force him to reflect on his intended course of action. A Chris Brassington Film blends fact and fiction in order to create a compelling piece of drama with important social overtones.

A Word Lydia Isnanto 12min / PG

At the peak of her life at 18 years, an ordinary schoolgirl is deemed worthless, dumb, and useless. Pulled in all directions by a selfish mother, a criminal father, a dreadful boss and a frustrated teacher, she could hardly search her soul for the true meaning of self-worth. She allows every word to enter her heart and mind, and does nothing except bury those words inside. Her life seems dark and uninteresting. One day she decides to end her life. At that moment, a disabled friend comes along with beautiful words. All she needs is to make "one" simple decision.

The Road that Follows Benjamin Tanaka 18min / PG

The Road That Follows is a contemporary tale about the irony of how small the world is, yet how complex life can be. This is represented in the everyday life of three different central characters in the story: The modern working woman, the student and the aging father. They are somehow inter-related with one another, causing chain reactions to their feelings and emotions in the course of their lives.

Brown Sugar Chong Neng Jie Jonathan 14min / PG

Without Daniel, Kaelyn felt that she had become a shadow, waiting to fade with each and every sunrise. Without Daniel, her hands shivered and her thoughts stilled to a deafening silence. Decidedly, she would wait, but for how long? Decidedly, this is not a story about overcoming odds. This is a story about closure. The poem to be finished is not about loss, not entirely, but it is about one thing that Kaelyn and Daniel believed in; Love.

Leaving Me Chew Tee Pao 9min / PG

The melodrama of a soap opera is set up in high contrast to the silent tension between the couple watching it. Shot in hues of green and yellow, the narrative subjectivities of the four characters parallel each other, yet are in a constant state of manipulation and distortion.

Faith and Miracle Lim Yew Yee 9min / TBA

An emotionally stricken woman who works in the X-ray department has a chance of finding true love in the most unlikely person - a patient, who is a former colleague, involved in an accident.

Is There Money in This? Tan Siang Yu 6min / TBA

"Is There Money In This?" is an award-winning comedy about two amateur robbers and their attempt to rob, with hilarious consequences.

Figure in Motion Sam Kumar 12min / TBA

Drawing the human form is an ancient art. It is a difficult skill which needs years of practice. It is unusual to find an artist who draws her model while she is dancing. Dutch artist, Noella Rose, is special.

     
Total runtime:   100min

SHORTS PROGRAMME M

1PM – 2.30PM

M18

Programme   Duration / Rating
Mother Royston Tan 6min / PG

A son relates his love-hate relationship with his mother through faded footage of a home video.

Cashless Derrick Tan, Melinda Tan 30min / M18

Cashless revolves around a man's reckless pursuit of his misplaced cash after he mistakenly transfers an important sum of money meant for his mother into the wrong ATM account. When time and money are at stake, how far must he go before he finally finds himself? Starring Danny Jow, and featuring music by local bands The Lilac Saints and RustyNailz.

Mummy  Darren Tan 2min / PG

Ripping apart the traditional notion of mother-son relationships, "Mummy" threatens our perception of motherly love and shows how easily love can mutate into pain.

The Release Timothy J. Alvin

30min / PG

The accident that left Jia Hao and his mother paralysed took the lives of their loving husband and father and left the family broken .3 months forward, though it seems well on the surface, Jia Hao drifted from his mother, whom he blamed for the accident. When Hui Juan entered his life and his flat, Jia Hao has to forgo one relationship. Love and Family, can he make the right choice?

Where You Going? Manoj Prabodha Chandran

5min / TBA

Shaun places the duty of visiting his hospitalised grandmother at the bottom of his list, resulting in his now departed grandmother paying her beloved grandson one last visit, before heading home.

Letting Go Guo Wenxu

9min / PG

A mother gives up her medical treatment to send her son to university. Letting Go explores how noble and great motherly love is.

The Last Day Pua En

6min / TBA

Puffing Dude tries to come to terms with his habit on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. He realizes that it was not going to be easy as feelings, people and happenings on the two days strike him like never before experienced.

The Thief Liu Xiuyuan

6min / TBA

A thief who has been stealing his hall mates' belongings feels guilty, and decides to turn himself in to the Hall Master.

     
Total runtime:   94min

SHORTS PROGRAMME N

3PM – 4.30PM

R21

Programme   Duration / Rating
Cut Royston Tan 13min / PG

Cut, comes almost a year after Royston’s first full length film, 15, was released locally, only after 27 cuts by the local authorities. In true Singaporean fashion, Cut, responds to the issue of censorship with a heady blend of tongue- in-cheek humour and music. Featuring cameos of notables from Singapore’s artistic community, Cut serves to articulate the pent-up frustrations from both the perspective of Singaporean artists and their audiences.

Moon Sudeep Bhupal Singh 12min / NC16

Lily works at night to pay off her medical bills of household expenses. Her father is a cab driver who doesn't earn much. On her father's birthday, she and her father learn the truth of each other's secret lives.

From a Sister Elicia Loh

8min / PG

A young documentary filmmaker, through the rantings and ravings of a transsexual prostitute, catches the glimpse of the sorrows but insurmountable strength behind the thick make-up. Inspired to get this voice heard, she hits a major barrier: getting this voice on tape.

The Same Ties that Bind Wong Kai Xuan

21min / R21

Revolving around the theme of acceptance, The Same Ties That Bind explores the various elements that determine a gay person's acceptance within the family. The story unfolds through tales of family love, prejudice, religion, and how these factors have come to play in creating each interviewee's stand towards homosexuality in the Singapore society.

Blank Rounds  Green Zeng

15min / NC16

Tien, a young army recruit, finds it hard to cope with the demands of military training and the growing hostility of his platoon mates. He must find a way to hold onto his sanity before it is too late.

Garden Girls  Ric Aw

20min / R21

One day, a recently divorced photographer captures snapshots of 2 girls behaving intimately in a garden. The next day, only one of them returns and catches him spying.

     
Total runtime:   89min

SHORTS PROGRAMME O

5PM – 6.30PM

PG

Programme   Duration / Rating
Peter  Derrick Lui, Lee Chee Tian 26min / PG

At 22, Peter had an undisputedly bright future and everything going for him. A plunge into the swimming pool puts an abrupt end to all that. The fateful accident left him paralysed from the neck down. Initially devastated and despaired, he eventually comes to terms with his condition, and moves on to accomplish what able-bodied people take for granted in their lives, proving that being disabled doesn't mean being unable. The film hopes to inspire others who are encountering difficulties in their lives to face life's challenges bravely, with Peter as their role model.

The Way Home David Liu 15min / PG

A father leaves his family to pursue another woman and struggles as he makes his way back home to reconcile with them.

Nude Beach Ong Wan Shu

23min / PG

An exploration on the subject of 'naturism' and 'returning to one's true self' using the story of a retrenched girl's effort in realizing her dream to a nude beach and a boss's secret dream to be a porn star.

Struggle Guo Wenxu

3min / PG

An undercover cop and his inner struggle with his identity crisis, explored through a series of montages.

Hui Tay Keng Hui Antonio

13min / PG

Ah Huat is a good-for-nothing street racer. One fine day, he meets his love, Rebecca; a rich, sheltered girl under a peculiar circumstance. However, their love is not approved by Rebecca's parents. Disheartened, Ah Huat decides to turn a new leaf, making changes in his life to stay with his love. With so many obstacles on his side, can Ah Huat keep the jewel of his life, Rebecca?

Dawn Benjamin Tan (jmin)

2min / PG

A reminiscence of the bygone, in an eternal cycle of renewal. Completed as part of the 4D Design and Time Foundation Module at Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media.

Unconcealment of the Aftermath Toh Hun Ping

11min / PG

Outpourings after overdoses of solitude, fluvoamine and ECTs. an expressionistic attempt to come to terms with self-doubt, confusion and uncertainty. Laden with pointless wanderings and hopeless purging of the middens of the normalizing society. Will it ever overturn?

     
Total runtime:   99min

AWARDS NIGHT

6.30PM - RECEPTION

7.30PM - AWARDS STARTS


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