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Long Pants
A tale of tenacity and resilience based on a true-life account. A teenage boy finds himself in a struggle for strength and courage amidst life’s trials. In the face of adversity, Yang must pass his promotional exams in order to fulfil his dying father’s wish of seeing him in the long school pants.
Rating: PG
Duration: 25 mins
Unconditional Love
A heart-warming story of an Indian foster mother with a heart of gold, seeking to shower her adopted Chinese child with unconditional love. Drizzled with high emotions and challenging resistance from the child, the film centres around love and to be loved.
Rating: PG
Duration: 25 mins
Bangkit
Set in the 1964 during the racial riots mayhem, a Malay baker must overcome her distrust of the Chinese community who destroyed her bakery shop, to revive her traditional pastry business.
Rating: PG13, Some Violence
Duration: 25 mins
Reunion
A touching story about a talented chef who comes home after going away for 3 years, to fulfil his Grandmother’s last wish, and discovers the real meaning of reunion dinner.
Rating: PG
Duration: 24 mins
Gallant
The story recounts a scene of the Japanese invasion of Singapore back in 1942, where love and family bond triumphed over fear and turned cowardice into heroism, amid terror and panic. During the 3rd day of the Japanese invasion, Jin Li and his pregnant wife An Ning attempt to flee and evacuate the war-torn country. However, things turn for the worst as the couple is separated amidst Jin Li’s cowardice – leading to An Ning’s capture by a menacing Japanese Lieutenant. Plagued with guilt and fear, Jin Li must summon his courage to rescue the one he loves.
Rating: PG
Duration: 26 mins
The Dream Team
An inspiring documentary on how the DREAM TEAM was assembled to finally win the Malaysia Cup, and bring back glory to Singapore football.
Rating: PG
Duration: 19 mins
Backstage
What if you were given the power to return to the past to change your life? An ex-convict is presented with the tempting option to cross time and space to alter his past. In doing so, can he take a different path and have a better life? Everything comes with a price. Sometimes the cost of changing history may be a heavy one to bear.
Rating: PG
Duration: 19 mins
SQ117: Men Behind The Mask
“SQ117: Men Behind The Mask” is a thrilling docu-drama on the hijack of SQ117, featuring the SAF commando elites who successfully rescued all hostages and took down the hijackers.
Rating: PG
Duration: 24 mins
Assam Pedas Ikan Salmon
The way to a mother’s heart is through the stomach. A clash of cultures over one iconic dish, this fiesty comedy dishes out the laughs even as it warms the heart. When a young man brings his American fiancée home, it sets the stage for an epic battle for affection and loyalty – one that can only be settled with the eponymous asam pedas ikan salmon.
Rating: PG
Duration: 24 mins
Hero
How far would a father go to give his family a better life? When a hardened battle-weary fighter tries to quit the never-ending cycle of gangland turf wars for a quieter life with his young daughter, he is offered one last fight as his exit ticket. But leaving the brotherhood is never easy and the path to freedom is paved with heart-wrenchingly difficult choices.
Rating: PG
Duration: 24 mins
Azza
A heart-wrenching story based on a true-life account of an 11 year old girl who faces a struggling period in her life, despite her young age. Confronted with the shock of her dearest father plotting a terrorist attack, Azza is thrown into confusion and tremendous stress. She has to fight the dilemma of exposing her father in the police investigations, alongside the aftermath when her mother attempts suicide and tries to kill the entire family. The power of kinship is accentuated as Azza draws strength from within and works towards bringing her mother back from the brink of losing hope in life.
Rating: PG
Duration: 26 mins
Buying Back Grace
Set in the 1980s during the recession, Ying a compulsive gambler, sells her newborn baby to pay off her gambling debts. Her poor husband, Eng Huat, is devastated and sets off on an arduous attempt to raise money to redeem his baby girl.
Will he overcome the odds and persevere to save his precious baby from the clutches of loansharks?
Rating: PG
Duration: 23 mins
Sleep Well Mother
Damien is a 14 year old boy born with Down syndrome. Being tenderly cared for by his mother Ah Li all his life, Damien has been very dependent on her for all his daily needs. When Ah Li is diagnosed with a terminal illness and her days numbered, she faces the urgency in teaching Damien how to live independently before she passes on. On the other hand, Damien is determined to pick up the life skills, and do his mother proud.
Rating: PG
Duration: 25 mins
O Meri Jaane Jaan (O My Beloved)
Liz, an ignorant girl living in her K-drama bubble clashes with her cheerful neighbour Ranjeet who loves his Bollywood musicals. Amid the one-sided prejudice and agitation, Liz magically enters Ranjeet’s Bollywood movie and disrupts the storyline and lead characters, Amir and Shanti, just as they are about to fall in love. Now Liz must go on a journey to unite the two lovers-to-be with the help of Ranjeet before she gets trapped in the Bollywood world.
Rating: PG
Duration: 23 mins
Huan Express
An average boy studying in junior college must decide if he wants to exchange his most precious memory for an ‘A’ grade for his mother’s approval and love.
Rating: PG
Duration: 26 mins
The Times We Shared
A 9-year-old sheltered Chinese girl must overcome her prejudice of a 9-year-old Malay fishmonger or else she will lose her one true friend.
Rating: PG
Duration: 26 mins
Ixora Flowers
A 15-year-old kampung girl who works as a babysitter for a British family must save her younger sister from the Bukit Ho Swee fire.
Rating: PG
Duration: 25 mins
A Little Closer
Ashwin, a young Indian man, works as a Stay-Home Caller and his job is to ensure individuals under Stay-Home Notice abide by the rules. In his duties, he encounters a Chinese elderly lady, Sook Teng, wandering outside. Ashwin discovers that Sook Teng suffers from dementia but wishes to have dinner with her husband that very day. Ashwin and the old lady forge a bond as he learns the importance of keeping family traditions alive.
Rating: PG
Duration: 15 mins
1M APART!
Cik Leha is a timid makcik (middle-aged Malay lady) who was chosen to be a social distancing ambassador during the Circuit Breaker period. She takes her job too seriously, enforcing rules on top of rules on everyone in her block. The residents soon come to dislike her and her arch nemesis Mr. Tan schemes to make both her job and life miserable.
Rating: PG
Duration: 15 mins
Missed Calls
Jeanine is a JC1 student who is stuck at home with her estranged mother, Lisa, during the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore. After losing her grandfather to COVID-19 over a month ago, she is overwhelmed with grief and unable to move on. When she receives a notification about a missed call from ‘Ah Gong’ – her late grandfather, she realises that she can communicate with him days before his passing. Clutching onto the possibility of altering the past, she tries her best to get Ah Gong to stay home, not realising that he had already contracted the virus. In the end, after investing all her hope on his return, Ah Gong does not come back; Jeanine is also unable to call him again.
This breaking point sets a pivotal moment that brings Lisa and Jeanine closer when they face their grief together. Furthermore, an unexpected voicemail left behind by Ah Gong helps Jeanine realise that she was never meant to alter the past as this was an opportunity meant for her to move on. Jeanine’s connection with her grandfather eventually reconnects her with her mother.
Rating: PG
Duration: 20 mins