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Browse 23 movies from Nanyang Technological University
A dementia stricken elderly man is disturbed by a mysterious chirping sound in his flat. With the emergence of a cricket, he finds himself in the forest where he finally embraces the shadows of his past.
May 2023
Ten-year-old Eliza's perception of reality begins to shatter after witnessing the limit of her mother’s mental deterioration. Illusions, memory and observations cast light and transform her world into something ill-fated.
Feb 2026
Merde follows 3 current and former ballerinas who all started from the same ballet studio, but are all in very different places in life now, exploring what ‘failure’ means to them in their relationship with ballet.
Apr 2025
Tired of his turbulent family life, Adam seeks out an alternative arrangement in hopes of finding his place.
May 2019
19-year-old Anne adjusts to driving her Dad’s car, while struggling with whether to keep the family secret of his terminal illness from Grandma.
A jaded Office Lady’s perspective on life is thwarted when she runs into her ex, an Ah Beng giving out free hugs to strangers.
Aug 2023
Ping is a reclusive musician who is behind on rent due to writer’s block. When the landlord pressures him to pay up, Ping seeks creative inspiration from the view of a young couple below his apartment. Through this exercise, he is forced to confront the buried guilt borne from his girlfriend’s suicide, and ultimately learns to let go.
Nov 2024
Still Voices is a one-room drama about a young woman navigating the complexities of motherhood while confronting her broken marriage, and estranged daughter.
Inspired by a true story of an aviation disaster, a daughter tries to bridge the bond she lost after her father returns home from a plane crash, where he struggles to remember his life before that fateful catastrophe.
Jul 2023
When young working mother Amelia is notified that her 3 month old son is underweight, she has to decide what’s best for her son while battling her own insecurities of motherhood.
17-year-old Jason's world shifts when his estranged grandma moves in, disrupting his routine as he undergoes a journey of transformation.
Aug 2024
A grieving tattoo artist returns to his late Ah Gong’s home, where fragments of memory and loss quietly resurface. As he moves through the spaces they once shared, he is drawn into a quiet journey of remembrance and emotional closure.
After cooking a scrumptious meal for her family, Ah Ma endlessly waits for them to arrive until she realizes her innocent mistake.
Jan 2023
Two university students unexpectedly win £100,000 from taking a photo of Jupiter. A lighthearted comedy drama about not growing up.
A heartwarming tale of Lucas, a Singaporean boy who faces up to his fears in the neighbourhood playground, and reunites his neighbour Angie with her lost doll.
Jan 2014
Set against the backdrop of an active volcano in Bali, In The Line Of Fire is a documentary that unravels an intertwining and pensive portrait of two of its inhabitants and their families.
Jan 2024
While avoiding a conversation with his mum, Elliot encounters a peculiar little creature in need of his assistance!
Nov 2023
Karōshi (過労死) is a vast examination into the issue of overworking in contemporary society, the struggles that perpetuate the working class. All that is left is a lingering touch of urban loneliness. The film follows through with scenes of the everyday, the mundane, and the often overlooked aspects of daily life: drawing distinctions between an imagined utopia, and the true dystopian reality.
Nov 2020
In this mixed media landscape of puppetry, collage, sand and clay, a young girl finds her body afflicted by a mysterious condition. Panicked, she races through different worlds searching for a diagnosis.
Oct 2024
In some mystically-inclined literature from the Persianate world, individual letterforms, words, the reed pen of calligraphy and other calligraphic-related elements have been used as metaphors to explain the unexplainable secrets of the universe. This film is inspired by some of those metaphors and is a celebration of the beauty of the art of calligraphy.
Jan 2017