Sejarah Sejarah Film Pendek

On February 14 1942, the 56th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army launched one of the bloodiest attack in Singapore to take control of Pasir Panjang Ridges. A Malay platoon made up of 42 men commanded by 2nd Lt Adnan Bin Saidi, from the C Company of the Malay Regiment made the last stand to defend Bukit Chandu.

For Sugiharti Halim, though, a name can lead to a never-ending question. At times funny, annoying, and contradictory: Does one really need a ‘real’ name? Can you sell your name? Is it true that you can hide your identity behind a name? Sugiharti Halim offers a perspective that is comical, provocative, contextual, and deserving to be re-examined today.* Presidential Decree no. 127/U/Kep/12/1966 obliged Ethnic-Chinese to adopt an Indonesian-sounding name (e.g. change Liem to Halim, Lo/Loe/Liok to Lukito, etc.

Filmed at one of the oldest playground in Singapore, the dragon playground. Two brothers dig their way through history in hopes to find their deceased hamster.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi, the man of the millennium, according to a BBC poll, was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. No doubt, he was one of the greatest existences of this world but often we tend to forget that he was a normal human being too, who sacrificed almost everything for an independent India. This film is a piece of fiction, where a stranger comes to meet Gandhi, a night before his assassination and questions Gandhi’s ideology of ‘truth’ and ‘non-violence’, which is primarily based on theories derived from the revered Hindu holy book ‘Bhagawad Gita’. The visitor not only nullifies Gandhi’s contributions and efforts for Indian independence but also blames him for all the woes and damages suffered by India and its people due to partition. He accuses Gandhi of making his countrymen suffer because of his blind faith in ‘truth’ and ‘non-violence’. Both Gandhi and the stranger are ardent believers of Bhagawad Gita and use the same scripture to interpret the same situation differently. This could also said to be the beauty of both the Hindu faith that allows you to see truth in many different ways and of the two men in question whose understanding and intelligence is amazingly inspiring and thought provoking.