Director: Boo Junfeng, Cast: Joshua Tan, 96 mins, English Subtitles
Current Critics’ Week Cannes 2010, London International Film Festival

Just prior to 18-year-old En’s mandatory enlistment into the Singaporean army, a series of events and disclosures threatens to alter his world view forever. The taste of his first romance, the death of his grandfather, his grandmother’s worsening Alzheimer’s disease, his schoolteacher mother’s affair with an uptight military commander, and En’s newfound awareness of his late father’s student activist past all contribute to his decision to reevaluate the pieces of his life before they are erased by the tides of time.

Director: Royston Tan, Cast: Qi Yu Wu, Mindee Ong,Yeo Yann Yann, Liu Ling Ling, 115 mins, English Subtitles
Selected as Singapore’s nomination to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The story is about two good friends who grew up with genuine love for the Getai culture, a form of art with stage and song performances. Getai has a historical tradition in Singapore. After being blessed by the Getai Goddess, the two friends become the most popular Getai duo of the country, called the Papayas. However, the Durian Sisters, their main competitors are very jealous and determined to sabotage the Papayas' performances.

Director: Ho Tzu Nyen, Cast: John Low, Jo Tan, 86 mins, English Subtitles
Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival

A television switches on. A mind snaps. A man discovers his murdered wife. As he stares at her lifeless body, the events leading to her death play before him, like in a movie. HERE follows the journey of He Zhiyuan, a middle-aged man who struggles to make sense of his reality. Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, he loses the will to speak and is interned at Island Hospital. There, he meets strident kleptomaniac Beatrice with whom he forms an inexplicable bond. As He adjusts to life within, he is selected for an experimental treatment, which forces him to confront the devastating truth behind his past, present, and future. Meanwhile, a filmmaker visits Island Hospital to document the lives of the staff and patients.

Director: Anthony Chen, Cast: Quek Ee-Seng and Tan Mei Jun 14 mins, English Subtitles
Festivals: 58th Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, 21st Singapore International Film Festival, 2008

Haze caused by forest fires from neighbouring Indonesia is a common occurrence in Singapore. On one such day two teenagers decide to skip school and lazily pass the day away. Haze follows them as the day unfolds, unveiling a sensitive portrait of a day in the life of a teenager.

Director: Tan Pin Pin, 58 mins, English Subtitles
Selected as Singapore’s nomination to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

Invisible City is a documentary about documenteurs. The director interviews photographers, journalists, archaeologists, people propelled by curiosity to find a City for themselves. The documentary conveys how deeply personal their search is and how fragile histories are, hanging on only through their memories and artefacts. Interwoven with the interviews is never seen before footage and photos of Singapore culled from their personal archives. In Invisible City, you witness the atrophy of memory, you see a City that could have been. Invisible City opened in Singapore for a theatrical run on 22 July 2007 where it had a four week sold out run.

Director: Boo Junfeng, Cast:Nick Shen Weijun, Scott Lee, 19 mins, English Subtitles
Festivals: Teddy Award Nomination – 59th Berlin Film Festival, Audience Award – 24th Torino GLBT Film Festival

A former military officer seeks closure by making a documentary film about a man whom he had furtively encountered in Tanjong Rhu many years ago. Tanjong Rhu is a secluded beach on the east coast of Singapore, and a popular cruising ground for gay men. In an entrapment exercise in 1993, 12 men were arrested there and sentenced to imprisonment and caning. This is a fictionalised account of what has happened since then to one of these men.

Total Running Time 64 mins, English Subtitles
Curated by Kirsten Tan, Featuring a selection of 5 short films by up and coming filmmakers from Singapore including -
Tickets by Sherman Ong (10 min) / Cold Noodles by Kirsten Tan (6 min) / Promises of December by Elgin Ho (17 mins) / 5 films in an anthology of a film a month by David Shiyang (22 mins) / Masala mama by Michael Kam (9 mins)

PROJECT: slingSHORT is an ongoing series of Singapore short film screenings occurring annually. The selection of short films for each series comes from an ensemble of up and coming Singapore short filmmakers. A different Singapore short filmmaker will curate each screening. The out going curator will select the next curator from one of the filmmakers from the current screening.