Sivakumar Palakrishnan

Repossession

50-year-old Jim (Gerald Chew, "Apprentice", Cannes Film Festival 2016 Un Certain Regard) loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife (Amy J Cheng, "Crazy Rich Asians") and daughter. His only confidante is his best friend (Sivakumar Palakrishnan, "A Yellow Bird", Cannes Film Festival 2016 Critics' Week). Desperately clinging onto the material symbols of his past success, he unlocks a hibernating malevolent force, with sinister roots in long-buried secrets. As his dream life crumbles around him, worlds collide, the lines between then and now become increasingly blurred, and Jim descends into a waking nightmare. REPOSSESSION is a bold, genre-bending film, with an ever-evolving, haunting soundscape from Golden Horse Award-winning composer Teo Wei Yong ("A Land Imagined").

Sacred Cow

A cow appears in the dormitory, leaving the migrant workers confused. Amidst the events, Murthi, their lorry driver, discovers an uncanny connection between the cow and his best friend, Murugan.

A Yellow Bird

It is an unwelcome homecoming for Siva, a Singaporean-Indian ex-convict, haunted by a tragedy in his past. Released after eight years behind bars and dejected by his mother’s coldness, he leaves home in search of his ex-wife and daughter. His old friend denies any knowledge of their whereabouts and instead leads him back into crime. Finding him sheltering in ‘void decks’ (the open public access corridors found beneath government-built residential housing in Singapore), the police force him to meet with a social worker; a woman also dealing with her own fears.

Gurushetram – 24 Hours of Anger

This social drama is set in a working class Singaporean Tamil family. With gangsters at his doorstep and drug addicts for parents, 17-year old Prakash struggles to hold his family together and protect his mentally-challenged brother from dangers in and outside the family. When his family is implicated in a crime gone sour, Prakash's resolve and courage are put to the ultimate test.

Big Time in Little Street

Four Army pals open up a Nasi Lemak stall as a front to hunt for long lost family treasure from the locksmith shop next door. But as their ineptness for the perfect score increases; their Nasi Lemak business begins to take off -- BIG TIME!

Battle of the Hearts

Called to negotiate with a man who has taken a hospital ward hostage, an ex-army major is shocked to learn of the attacker’s link to his own past.

#LookAtMe

A Youtuber posts an irreverent video trolling a megachurch pastor, in defence of his gay twin brother. He is vilified by society, tried in court, and pitted against a culture that threatens to destroy his family.

Folklore

Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike anything that’s come out of the region before.