Karen Tan Bee Lin

Set in the 2000s, Aqua Man talks about the emotional transformation of a young boy, Junjie, and its religious dilemma of being a gay Christian individual in Singapore.

Chloe is a 26-year-old accountant who inherited her mother's ability to see spirits. Every year, they reunite with their spirited relatives during the Hungry Ghost Festival. But after her mother's sudden death, Chloe makes the mistake of forgetting an offering during the Hungry Ghost Festival—causing her late mother’s soul to lose her way home. To find her, Chloe must retrace her mother’s past before the spirit world closes its gates for good.

Towkay Tan plans to go on a trip with his family during Chinese New Year, leaving his coffee shop under the care of his employee, Ah Biao, a shop runner from China. Things get challenging for Towkay Tan when he realises his business will be left to a foreigner who has yet to learn its language.

“10-0” delves into the fleeting nature of life and the importance of family, seen through the perspective of Esther, an embalmer who seems to have it all. When a dead woman she embalms comes alive, pleading to relay her last words to her daughter, Esther helps by recording her message. The realisation that she could do something profound in her life renders her busy in her work life, making her unavailable to her family. In the end, she grapples with the consequences of such a choice and embalms one of them.

Set in a small advertising consultancy firm, Kasper finds himself in the thick of it between underperforming colleagues, superiors with inflated egos, and crazy promises made to clients as he desperately chases after the fabled work-life balances.

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin.

Liyah, a single mother, caught between the responsibilities of caring for her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and raising her 12-year-old daughter, discovers that an enchanted cello can briefly restore her mother’s memories, but at the cost of her daughter’s hearing. Although the music temporarily brings warmth and clarity to her mother, Liyah clings onto the false hope, building tension between her and her daughter, forcing her to choose between the two.

Opening with a nostalgic karaoke repertoire, Everybody Wins the Lottery delves into the dynamics of a Singaporean family as they deal with the effects of the father’s retrenchment. To keep her family afloat, the mother resorts to extreme financial measures until they miraculously win the lottery. However, this sliver of hope is soon threatened when the ticket mysteriously disappears.

Written, shot and edited in just 48 hours, this film had to be in the Detective/cop genre; it had to include the line of dialogue "Look at what you just did, you..." as well as a character named Mr or Mrs Anderson, President; and had to include the mandatory prop of a set of BBQ tongs! The film was shot on location at the Pearl's Centre, Singapore.

Through a series of escalating voicemail messages, the sonic journey of a mother-son relationship is traversed. As she cycles through a deluge of conflicting emotions, images of a dingy apartment are slowly revealed to haunting effect.