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.
Also in this combined programme
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Toujours moins
Typical Luc Moullet: dryly comedic narrative about our cold society, in which room for inter-human relations continually decreases. Screened before
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The Earrings
A poetical film from southern Kyrgyzstan where two mothers let their son and daughter meet for the first time, with thoughts of marriage. Screened
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Varfix
Cartoon bombs explode in an abstract animation. The images were selected for their contrast to the music. Witty visual art. Screened before Hot as
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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 Lor
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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, ever
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Drexciya
Guilty landscape. A carefully observed decrepit swimming pool, silently relates a myth from Africa’s traumatic history. Screened before Imagi
Film details
- Countries of production
- Singapore, UK
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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