Immigration Immigration Short Films

An intimate dinner party comes alive as the night takes an unexpected turn. The inhabitants become the imprisoned, and the only way to break free is to confront the lies they have told themselves. A walk through the dark history of the household becomes a desperate struggle for survival, but by dawn it becomes clear that redemption is out of reach.

That afternoon before they went to see the pandas, a young couple from Chengdu, China struggles to build a perfect home in Singapore. As she adapts and make herself more Singaporean, he finds himself drifting between Singapore and his motherland. As the dream of becoming a Singaporean keeps seeming more and more remote, they decide to see the pandas.A film from Utter 2013, adapted from 出蜀记 by Liang Wern Fook.

Motherland, is an ongoing project that deals with the migration of peoples.Singapore is a city-state with one of the highest concentrations of people – and of millionaires – in the world. The city also has a magnetic attraction for immigrants, many of whom come from China. Some have lived in the region for generations now and no longer speak their original language. Others are new, and wrestle with a sense of rootlessness and disorientation. In a series of video confessions the urban dwellers speak about their lives and future in a land that has mixed feelings about their presence. It won a prize at Videobrazil recently.Xiao Jing is about a Mainland Chinese woman who comes to Singapore to find a better life, and maybe love.

Rama Krishnamurthy, the protagonist in this picturesque story, acts as a medium of communication between the people in his village and those of the outside world. He is a simple man and is an integral part of the village’s social framework. Through the passage of time, we see the arrival of new source of communication and one that could very well change his life.

This documentary has three stories of Vietnamese women interwoven with the matchmaker’s interview. Through their narration, the audience gets a glimpse of what their living conditions are like in Vietnam, and understands the women’s inner hopes, fears and aspirations, and how marrying to Singapore can help improve their families’ standards of living.

After almost a decade of waiting, Buboy’s US immigration is finally about to be approved. Excitement has been causing his spirit to fly out of his body every night and travel to Disneyland in California.