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Singapore’s showcase of LGBT short films returns for its fifth installment, which continues to limn an extraordinary spectrum of LGBT experiences and perspectives. By turns heartwarming, funny, provocative and wistful, the selection is testimony once again to the vitality and range of our filmmakers.


THE LINE-UP

KRISTY | Marcia Ong | 7” | English
A little girl who is in love with her favorite T-shirt is locked in a battle of wills with her mother, who wishes she would start wearing dresses.

SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME | Ezzam Rahman | 6” | No Dialogue
“Good things come to those who wait” – it is about what lies around the corner, the anticipation of it all, the yearning for something to happen. If only we knew when.

LABOUR DAY | He Shuming | 23” | Mandarin, Malay and English (With English subtitles)
Cik visits her old flat to collect rent from two foreign worker tenants – Zoe, a Malaysian-Chinese who dreams of being a star, and Purple, a study-mama from China who is hiding a secret from her son.
Trailer here.

SISTERS | Lincoln Chia | 9” | English and Mandarin (With English subtitles)
The Chinese custom for bridesmaids, or “sisters”, to playfully impede a groom’s progress on the morning of the wedding, as he arrives at the home of the bride to fetch her, takes on a dark, poignant twist.

TRANSIT | Regina Tan | 10” | Malay (with English Subtitles)
Sri, an aspiring dancer, reflects on her difficult circumstances as she seeks to embrace a selfhood that our society marginalizes and makes moral judgments on.

THIN AIR | Kirsten Tan | 12” | English
A whimsical tale chronicling the final days of Hector, a wheelchair-bound old man who is occupied with fishing – from the rooftop of an apartment building in New York City.

SWING | Leon Cheo | 6” | English
A few weeks after Wei Long and Daniel have broken up, Daniel asks Wei Long to meet him one more time.

CHANCRE | Loo Zihan | 17” | English
Chancre – a painless ulceration formed at the onset of syphilis; a transmutation of a memory couched in shame. Film includes text excerpts from Paul Gauguin’s The Writings of a Savage and Walter William Skeat’s Malay Magic.
Excerpt here (note: graphic content).
TRAILER


You can purchase your tickets at $10 each, via PayPal at http://shortcircuitsg.tumblr.com/ and collect them at the door on 6th January from 6:30pm with the electronic payment receipt for verification.

Proceeds will go to Young Out Here (YOH), a support group for LGBT youth in Singapore.

For more on YOH, visit
http://young-out-here.blogspot.com/