These are fifteen short films you shouldn’t miss at the Singapore International Film Festival which will take place from November 24 until December 4, 2022.

A newspaper editor visits her former teacher, who now cares for his wife with dementia, in this gentle story about the passage of time. (SGIFF 2022)

18-year-old Eliza is pregnant, and grappling with the prospect of abortion. Through interactions with her family, she contemplates what it means to be a mother, and to be mothered. (SGIFF 2022)

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A young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When the new couple in town moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one. (SGIFF 2022)

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Before a young indigenous Bunong woman and her brother move to the capital, she visits their old village that has since been lost to the development of a hydroelectric dam. (SGIFF 2022)

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A resistance group buries porcelain to support future claims to their vanishing lands in this futuristic take on archaeology as historical intervention. (SGIFF 2022)

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A filmmaker reinterprets migration and diaspora based on her mother’s experience fleeing Vietnam after the end of the American war. (SGIFF 2022)

In this tale of self-reflection, Maya returns to her childhood home where she confronts her past—as frogs rain outside. (SGIFF 2022)

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Meeting again after their breakup four months ago, Daniel and Claudia toy with the idea of getting back together in this tale of ambiguity. (SGIFF 2022)

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Three generations of women—doting grandmother, harried mother and innocent daughter—negotiate interdependence as well as differing priorities and desires in this restrained observational drama. (SGIFF 2022)

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A fan ruminates on its existence, that of a man who collects sounds from objects, and climbing temperatures in this idiosyncratic film. (SGIFF 2022)

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A man spends most of his life mourning the things he lost, unable to move on. He frequents a silent but helpful medium and embarks on a spiritual journey where he lingers among his past lives. (SGIFF 2022)

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A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests. (SGIFF 2022)

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In a meatless, pandemic-ridden society of extreme inequalities, a meat-obsessed cardboard collector wants a taste of the new groundbreaking meat product—at all costs. (SGIFF 2022)

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After a mix-up sends the wrong body to cremation, a darkly humorous series of events plays out between the undertaker and three siblings at their father’s wake. (SGIFF 2022)

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Young Vania faces her fears and finds courage in tumultuous times when she takes in an injured thief seeking refuge in her family’s traditional Chinese medicinal hall. (SGIFF 2022)

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