7 Letters (2015)

Celebrating 50 years of Singapore, this anthology of seven short films by its most celebrated filmmakers weaves together a nostalgic quilt of and culture.

1. Cinema – a horror story of a mythical Malay spirit who terrorizes men for stealing her infant.

2. That Girl – a intense romantic drama of a boy, who cruelly humiliates the girl who’s got a crush on him, only to have her rescue him from loan sharks.

3. The Flame – this intense family drama follows the complex sequence of events that unfold when conflict emerges between Anglophile Indian patriarch Madhayan (T. Sasitharan) and his son (N. Vighnesh) when they’re offered British citizenship on the eve of the U.K. military withdrawal from Singapore.

4. Bunga Sayang – this touching tale follows a neglected boy, who forms an unconventional bond with an equally lonely foreigner.

5. Pineapple Town – traces the trip that Singaporean Li Ning (Lydia Look) makes to the small Malaysian town of Pekan Nanas, where she hopes to track down the birth mother of her adopted infant daughter.

6. Parting – delving into the power of love and memory, this subtle story follows Ishmael (J.A. Halim), an elderly Malaysian who crosses the border in search of his first love, Swee Choo (Cheryl Tan).

7. GPS (Grandma Positioning System) – focuses on the arduous ritual of ancestor worship that is a legacy of Singapore’s secession. Every Qingming Festival, a real-estate agent has to drive his family across the border to Johor to pay respects to his father’s grave, waiting impatiently for his old lady to reiterate navigation instructions to her late husband for fear that his spirit can’t find its way home.