Captive Audience

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

After losing his wife, an elderly man who is preparing to move abroad to join his son plans to sell his beloved car. Meeting a transgender buyer and a sudden delay in his move push him toward an uncertain future.

A fly-on-the-wall documentary film crew follow Alex, a hopelessly romantic, rom-com obsessed virgin on a quest to find love. Alex quickly finds himself out of his depth when Lana, a Moldovan mail-order bride he met online makes the bold decision of moving to London to marry him.

An undertaker's secret admiration for the deceased is interrupted by a family quarrel that erupts in the final few minutes at an Irish wake.

When her father (Mark Lee) decides to shut down You & Me Bak Kut Teh, their family bak kut teh hawker business, top-scoring university graduate Enya (Annette Lee) takes it upon herself to save it. She successfully persuades her childhood friends Tammy (Xixi Lim) and Ahji (Jaspers Lai) to quit their jobs and join her in reopening business, but their endeavour gets off to a bad start when famous local actress Estella Tsai (Ya Hui), with the help of her manager Doreen (Cassandra See), open a restaurant next to them, selling the exact same dish. Determined not to lose to her newfound rivals, Enya feigns interest in a food documentary YouTuber, Preston (Xander Pang) — who has a reputation of saving local F&B businesses with his videos but only does so pro-bono. Will she succeed in keeping the shop alive?

When the wrong body has been sent for cremation, a hapless funeral director has to make amends to the deceased's estranged children. As he devises a plan for a sham funeral, the children's hypocrisy and apathy begin to surface.

Waiting for an old friend’s phone call, the lonesome Uncle Goose has not left home for days. But when food runs out, Uncle Goose decides to go to literal great lengths in order to keep the telephone by his side! Whatever it takes to be in time to pick up that call, because a promise is a promise.

Aunt Lotus, blind yet vibrant, attends a film audition for a mirrored role that rekindles her cycling memories. Rejected but undeterred, she sets forth, embracing her own path on a bicycle, and relives her youth.

Katie’s teenage son finally gets his turn for a heart transplant, but she begins to have troubling second thoughts about whether he deserves this opportunity.