Sivakumar Palakrishnan

Gurushetram – 24 Hours of Anger

T. T. Dhavamanni

Vishnu Andhakrishnan, Prakash Arasu

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.

Repossession

Ming Siu Goh

Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng

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").

A Yellow Bird

K. Rajagopal

Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Seema Biswas

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.

Folklore: Nobody

Eric Khoo

Li Wen Qiang, Maguire Jian

A Pontianak is awaked when a foreman and a construction worker attempt to bury the body of a dead girl instead of burning her. A series of unfortunate events begin to occur at the construction site.

Battle of the Hearts

Sivakumar Palakrishnan

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.