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Meng sprains his wrist while working at his new job in a kopitiam. Soon after he is let go by the owner without reason. Seemingly lost and upset, he wanders along the wharves of Marina, comtemplating life. When it starts to rain, he seeks shelter under a zinc roof in an alley, reminiscing the day he left his shared apartment and the conversation he had with a flatmate.The following morning, Meng has an altercation with a pimp in the alley and is pushed to the floor after accusing him of stealing his belongings.Meng seeks out a public phone in a heartland neighbourhood and calls his son, Teck. Knowing that it is his Granddaughter's birthday that coming Saturday, Meng promises her a lavish present.Meng scours the bookstore and comes across a dollhouse and looks to buy it, but is brushed off by a snobbish customer for his body odour. Instead of standing up for him, the store owner chases him out, telling him not to affect her business. In order to save money for the dollhouse, Meng turns to eating leftovers at a zi char (stir-fry) restaurant by the roadside. People stop to stare at him, but he doesn't care. A couple tables across, Meng spots his daughter-in-law drinking with another man. They spot each other but pretend not to see one another.Exhausted and troubled, Meng rests in a dark alley way, where two foreign workers are seated. Through a small misunderstanding, he starts interacting with them and they invite him to drink and dance with them.Come Saturday, Meng steals the pimp's flowery shirt he sees in they alley, goes to an industrial office toilet to clean up. and heads for his Granddaughter's party at a Chinese restaurant.After a long lonely bus ride to the family dinner, Meng presents her with the dollhouse, which he spent his last paycheck on. She is over the moon when she sees her present. Later in the night, the bill comes, Meng reaches for his wallet wanting to chip in to pay the bill, but Teck rejects. Before leaving the restaurant, Meng goes to the restroom, and Teck notices Meng's bag is full of clothing and suspects that he might have moved out of his joint singles apartment.As Meng sends them off, he tells his granddaughter to be a good girl and to study hard so that she can buy a big house one day. She promises him that she will study hard and not let him or her father down. At this point, Teck insists that Meng come back to their home to stay with them, but Meng, being too proud, rejects the idea.A storm starts to brew in the middle of the night, as the family part ways. His granddaughter puts a photo of all three of them into the dollhouse upon reaching home and Meng goes back to living on the streets, facing the harsh elements, in a "Cardboard House".

“Tambay (Stand-By)” is a day in the life of Ecka and Gelo, two 7-year-old kids that are out of school and mostly spend their days playing in the streets or staying at home with their emotionally absent mothers, watching TV.

An elderly cardboard collector manages a measly $4.80 from selling his cardboard boxes to a recycling centre at the end of a long days work.Barely enough money to make ends meet, he bums a cigarette from a stranger outside a hawker centre on the way home.Hungry and exhausted as he is, he is greeted by his wife and a table of simple Singaporean comfort food: Warm porridge, stir-fried vegetables and a can of black bean dace(fish).As the couple have a honest conversation about their daily struggles, they find joy in the simplest of pleasures: sharing a “You Tiao”(dough fritter) and having half each.“一人一半” or “Two Halves” is a short film that delves deeper into the heart of the problems in lower income, elderly families in Singapore. Also, bringing to light the unrelenting harshness of reality: “When life comes down to the dollars and cents, it’s whether you see the glass half full or half empty.”

A lone father-figure tries to survive a famine through the means of unlikely ways while coping with the death of his son. Until one day, he meets a young, homeless boy going through his garbage then offers some of his food with him. Father then adopts and forms a bond with the child as he reminds him of his own son. However, struggles ensue when their own food supply becomes scarce and Father is confronted with the choice between survival or love.

她每天凌晨就起床辛勤地工作。一天，對她卻似一年般漫長...

The film follows the lives of the teacher and students of B Third Class. Even as they surprise their teacher for Teacher's Day, the poverty-stricken nation and the children are in want of hope.

A young father and his seven-year-old son face serious challenges after he loses his job. As things at home become more and more dire, Kamsani finds himself struggling to defend the moral and religious beliefs he holds dear.

In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church. On their trip to the city, Judith requests that they watch a movie after selling off all the birds. What Judith gets in return is a torotot (trumpet) made out of rolled-up film negatives. The story is set in Bikol where it is a practice among rural folks to surround the perimeter of their farmlands with film negatives to ward off birds eating the newly sown palay seeds.

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.

Child marriage is usually told as a loss of innocence or problems of economy, but we forgot to ask 'What about her desire? Her sexuality?'A story about a high school girl in a rural area. She just reached an age where a boy has caught her attention and possibly heart when her family had to marry her off to an old man to help with the financial situation at home. All that could go wrong had gone wrong as she discovered how the old man is related to the boy she likes.Story by Susan Bansin.

A 12 year-old boy learns to play traditional Filipino games through a new set of friends, who will show him that life and their games have many things in common.