Film Synopsis:
Arul (15), is forced into becoming a runner. Ah Song (60), comes home from his son’s funeral to find out that his house is being harassed by loan sharks. Amidst the predicament of unsettled debts and unfulfilled relationships, the stories of two different individuals meet at the ramshackle corridors of Geylang.
Entrapped in the world of relentless debtors and runners, Arul is forced into a situation to help Ah Song unravel the truth. As they embark on their journey, both characters begin to understand the depth of each other’s situation and accept their differences to work together to finish what they started. WRITINGS ON THE WALL is a crime thriller-drama that takes place over the course of one night. The film explores themes such as money, race and fatherhood to show how two broken characters from different walks of life meet and find kinship with each other.
Kaeru is a 2D animated short film about a young Japanese woman’s journey at breaking away from societal norms, inspired by a famous poem by Matsuo Basho. Bounded by the restrictiveness of Japanese society, Kokoro hesitates to make the decision of leaving the country to be with her lover. A guardian in the form of a frog watches over her, and gives the nudge that she needs.
Cryptid Hunter is a 2D animated light-hearted mockumentary about a passionate monster enthusiast’s search for elusive cryptids like ‘Bigfoot‘ or ‘Nessie‘. However, no matter how hard he tries to find them, he never seems to be able to spot any, even if they were right in front of his very eyes.
This is the project book for “In Tune”, where 6 core team members worked on a story which we were not able to get any government grants due to its controversial topic at the time of filming.
Launderama is a whimsical, light-hearted story written by our Director – Hui Min. It follows laundry shop employee DESIREE who grows wary of her mundane existence and craves for a change in the status quo.
The young woman named Desiree finds herself yearning to live a life outside her own. To cope with the banality of her job in the laundry shop, she indulges in the clandestine activity of trying on a custom made jacket belonging to the customers’ transporting her to an alternate reality in which she takes on a new identity altogether, and the laundry shop bursts into life at night as her fantasies come alive in various ways. She is forced to confront harsh realities when she realises that she cannot hold on to the jacket forever and in her pursuit to keeping it, she discovers that she isn’t the only one with a secret.
