Our Stories, Well Told: Animation Saturday | Film Information

Bervyn Chua's The Last Stop centres on a lone commuter, trapped in a speeding train, who has to push against the force of its speed and escape before the train crashes.

In Huang Junxiang and Jerrold Chong's Piece of Meat, a lamb cutlet—enslaved in a surreal world of living objects—does whatever it takes to make ends meet.

In The Violin by Ervin Han, an old violin graces different stages of Singapore over 80 years, its music bearing witness to a young country's transformation.

Ser En Low's Poles Apart is set in a harsh Arctic landscape, where a hungry and solitary polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is food or friend.

Henry and Harry Zhuang, The Tiger of 142B, adapted from Dave Chua’s short story of the same title, is about the tension between a young unemployed man and his girlfriend, as a series of mysterious killings unsettles the residents of Block 142B.

Ang Qing Sheng's Kua Bo (Hokkien for “cannot see”) is about an elderly man, affected by a cataracts, who refuses to acknowledge the problems with his vision.

Finally, Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo is a sensitive, slow-burn drama set during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, about a foreign domestic worker and the Singapore household she finds herself in.

Event Details

• Our Stories, Well Told: Animation Saturday
• Date: 12 Aug 2023
• Time: 6.30pm & 8.15pm
• Venue: Esplanade Concourse
• Address: 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981

Admission Age:

Piece of Meat: PG13 (Some Sexual Reference)

The Tiger of 142B: PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes)

The Violin: PG

The Last Stop: PG (Some Intense Scenes)

Kua Bo: PG

Poles Apart: PG

Ilo Ilo: PG13 (Brief Coarse Language)

Information Source: Esplanade