This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.
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Writing | Anton Chekhov | Short Story |
Writing | Eric Khoo | Writer |
Writing | Darezhan Omirbayev | Writer |
Camera | Christopher Doyle | Director of Photography |
Camera | Rain Li | Director of Photography |
Camera | Boris Troshev | Director of Photography |
Sound | Koichi Shimizu | Music |
Editing | Nariman Turebayev | Editor |
Editing | Patamanadda Yukol | Editor |
Directing | Eric Khoo | Director |
Directing | Darezhan Omirbayev | Director |
Directing | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Director |