Now showing: Season 2's collection of short stories looks at what life would be like in 2020 and beyond, with our young filmmakers exploring tomorrow's consequences to today's issues and challenges.
Now showing: Season 2's collection of short stories looks at what life would be like in 2020 and beyond, with our young filmmakers exploring tomorrow's consequences to today's issues and challenges.
- a Singapore investment company
- a Singapore investment company
Watch all Season 2 Short Flims here.
16 groups of young filmmakers, showing you the future, today.
16 groups of young filmmakers; showing you the future, today.
With private-hire beating traditional taxis for patrons, Seng, an elderly taxi driver, struggles to get enough passengers to keep him and his wife financially stable. He attempts join a private-hire company, but his lack of technological understanding technology holds him back.
Returning to Singapore after 18 years, Indra visits her godmother, Sai, who is suffering from dementia. Sai was an opera artist who took in Indra and her mother during trying times. Indra and Sai participate in a new Virtual Reality treatment which aims to relive shared memories of their time at the opera together.
Alone in a nursing home, Kang befriends his upstairs neighbour, Linda, but they have never met before. Unable to leave his room, Kang’s friendship with Linda plays out exclusively through their ‘Old Friend’ communication device. After a blackout results in a break in their telecommunication, Kang attempts to locate Linda.
Wendy had recently moved into a new apartment when one day she sees her young, tech-obsessed neighbour Jun An, locked out of his house. Wendy tries to help him out but can’t through to him as he is glued to his phone. As she spends more time with him, she realises that this obsession has a violent streak.
Rebecca is one the top social media influencers, with a “social status” of 97%, but her status is at risk when her ‘best friend’ exposes her. In this society if your status dips below 10%, you are sent to be rebooted. This drives Rebecca and her mother to underground extremes to save her from this fate and bring her back to her influencer status.
Yi De follows his father for the annual Qing Ming festival in the year 2025. Throughout the day, he persistently tries to persuade his father to use a handy mobile application for the next Qing Ming festival to save trouble and time. Environmental-friendliness and instant convenience threaten to change practices that have been passed down for generations.
In 2020, one can now enrol dementia patients into the home to get their painful memories replaced with happy fantasies to be replayed on loop till the end of the patient’s life. A new nurse at the dementia home is tasked to take care of an elderly man, during which she starts to question the morality of erasing painful memories and replacing them with artificial fantasies.
Liyanah, a transgender woman is struggling to see her spouse, Lien, who she has taken to the emergency room. Hospital procedures strictly states that only family members can visit patients and that she does not qualify. With their marriage not being recognized in Singapore, and Lien’s only other family member overseas, Liyanah desperately tries to convince the medical staff to let them see her.
Singapore is shaken by a threat of a nuclear leak from its new power plant. Julia acts quickly to evacuate her and her kids out of the city only to return a week later to realise nothing happened. Julia now has to explain her actions to her kids and attempt to justify the sacrifices made.
Sitting in heaven Boon is frustrated about the lack of food offerings he receives and decides to give earth a visit. He meets up with the great-grandson who reveals that all food in Singapore has been replaced with a liquid meal substitute called Vitablend. The pair go on an adventure to find out why Vitablend has replaced all food.
Set on Pulau Ubin in 2050, the increase in sea level over the years has reached critical mass with the breaking point predicted to occur in the upcoming monsoon. Brothers Panneer and Jayaram are hesitant on leaving behind the island, where they spent their whole life, in spite of the warnings from officials and their adult children.
Season 2 of 20/20: The Temasek Short Film Project presents 4 music videos, each dealing with a different theme—risk, hope, sacrifice and determination—and set against the song "We'll Be Okay", written by actress-singer-songwriter Jean Goh and backed by the haunting vocals of .gif, Joie Tan, Shak'thiya Subramaniamm and Umar Sirhan.
Watch all Season 2 Short Flims here.
