Tiong Bahru (Singapore) is the latest thoughtful short in the Desperate Optimists’ series Civic Life that explores the relationship between people and their environment. Three very different characters reveal their hopes and desires to their loved ones in a shopping mall over the course of a day. Screened before Grande Hotel.
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Maya
Every man needs a hobby: a dog and its owner prepare for a dog fight. Beautifully shot, simultaneously tender and gruesome. Screened before The Lord’s -
Les voisins
There’s nothing more annoying than the sound of a lawn mower. It’s worse than a thousand insects buzzing around you. In a village, everyone’s mowing. -
Drexciya
Guilty landscape. A carefully observed decrepit swimming pool, silently relates a myth from Africa’s traumatic history. Screened before Imagine, the S
Film details
- Countries of production
- Singapore, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
