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The Southeast Asian Short Film Competition presents 17 new films across four programmes. The variety and quality of these short films attest to the abundance of strong creative talents from the region.

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition - Programme 1

01 Dec 2022, Thu, 6:30 PM / Oldham Theatre / 79 mins / PG13 (Some Mature Content)

Further and Further Away

Before a young indigenous Bunong woman and her brother move to the capital, she visits their old village that has since been lost to the development of a hydroelectric dam.

Polen LY Cambodia 24 mins PG Asian Premiere

There are fish in the water and rice in the fields

Interviews with young Thai citizens on the meaning of home as well as their sense of belonging, hopes and dreams through the digital streetscape of the current broken reality.

Tanakit KITSANAYUNYONG Thailand 18 mins PG13 (Some Mature Content) Singapore Premiere

Evening Clouds

Out of work and forced to marry a man she dislikes, young San Kyi plans to run away with her best friend, but complications unfold. 

Aung Phyoe Myanmar 18 mins PG13 (Some Coarse Language) World Premiere

Into The Violet Belly

A filmmaker reinterprets migration and diaspora based on her mother’s experience fleeing Vietnam after the end of the American war.

Thuy-Han NGUYEN-CHI, THUYEN Hoa Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Malta, Denmark 19 mins PG Asian Premiere

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition - Programme 2

02 Dec 2022, Fri, 6:30 PM / Oldham Theatre / 71 mins / R21 (Sexual Scenes)

Fix Anything

A father ropes in his son for exploits using his DIY ‘memory eraser’ van in this sci-fi comedy on their one-night adventure. 

LE Lam Vien Vietnam 14 mins PG World Premiere

It’s Raining Frogs Outside

In this tale of self-reflection, Maya returns to her childhood home where she confronts her past—as frogs rain outside.

Maria Estela PAISO Philippines 14 mins PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes) Singapore Premiere

Nail House

A man who lives in the last house standing at a development site contends with the onslaught of destruction.

Loeloe Hendra KOMARA Indonesia 9 mins TBA International Premiere

Dikit

A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When the new couple in town moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one.

Gabriela SERRANO Philippines 16 mins PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes) Singapore Premiere

Crystallized Memory

A monk’s son spends his days near the temple where his father disappeared, while crystals mysteriously grow on a bird’s nest in the premises. 

Chonchanok THANATTEEPWONG Thailand 18 mins R21 (Sexual Scenes) Singapore Premiere

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition - Programme 3

02 Dec 2022, Fri, 9:00 PM / Oldham Theatre / 82 mins / NC16 (Some Nudity)

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

After a mix-up sends the wrong body to cremation, a darkly humorous series of events plays out between the undertaker and three siblings at their father's wake. 

Alvin LEE Singapore 19 mins PG13 (Some Coarse Language) Southeast Asian Premiere

Bambang

Candid memories and salacious gossip flow freely as two men deliberate collecting their debt while paying respects at their philandering friend’s funeral. 

Yusron Fuadi Indonesia 23 mins NC16 (Coarse Language) World Premiere

A Worm, Whatever Will Be, Will Be

A filmmaker records deeply intimate interactions with her grandmother who has dementia, unknowingly documenting her final days. 

Mickey LAI Malaysia 11 mins NC16 (Some Nudity) Singapore Premiere

Love at Fifty

Kee, a divorced mother of two in her 50s, weighs the prospect of love against its challenges when she meets a jovial—and romantically inexperienced—delivery person at her coffeeshop job.

TAN Wei Ting Singapore 30 mins NC16 (Some Coarse Language) World Premiere

Southeast Asian Short Film Competition - Programme 4

03 Dec 2022, Sat, 6:30 PM / Oldham Theatre / 87 mins / M18 (Some Mature Content)

Vania on Lima Street

Young Vania faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicinal hall.

Bayu Prihantoro FILEMON Indonesia 24 mins PG13 (Some Violence) World Premiere

Seeing in the Dark

A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests. 

Taiki SAKPISIT Thailand 29 mins PG Asian Premiere

Parasite Family

Negatives found at an out-of-business film lab are manipulated through analogue and digital means, producing an abstract sequence suggestive of monstrous figures of wealth and power. 

Prapat JIWARANGSAN Thailand 5 mins PG Southeast Asian Premiere

Plastic Sonata

Plastic Sonata tells the story of three individuals as they face the global crisis, impending loneliness and their family.

Nelson YEO Singapore 30 mins M18 (Some Mature Content) Singapore Premiere