Unseen: Cinema of the 21st Century, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia 2011
Malaysia, Singapore Cinema! Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2010
Rainbow Asia, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Korea 2010
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands 2010

What if suddenly the water supply runs dry in Singapore?
Commissioned by the Singapore Biennale, this fusion of documentary and fiction narrative depicts the lives of foreign migrants as an impending water crisis begins to seep into their lives. With water, or the lack of it, becoming the central motif, this two-part feature length film takes us on a journey across 8 interweaved stories and 10 languages, as the protagonists, consisting of non-professional actors, grapple with this hopefully temporary discomfort, amidst their dalliance with human foibles, and their fantasies of everlasting loves and broken romances.
This aberration is a memento mori as the narratives grazed across the vague impressions of the racial tensions lingering past the 1997 riots in Indonesia, World War II, ritual beliefs, and ethnic discrimination in Southeast Asia which has been ingrained over generations and transported along with the migrant communities. Nonetheless, amidst the sporadic ventures into death and violence, sexual relations and sexualities, these are the lines of division that bind us to each other, in one way or another, as people survive through their crises.

Best Screenplay, Singapore Film Awards, Singapore International Film Festival 2009
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009
In Competition, Rome Asian Film Festival 2009
Barcelona Asian Film Festival 2009

A film that deals with very relevant issues in our everyday lives, Hashi centres on 3 women from 3 age groups – Shino(50s), Junko(30s) and Momo(20s). Momo is a bento (box lunch) delivery girl who sends bento lunches to Shino and Junko, who are colleagues in an office. Momo would always tell her dreams to Shino or Junko. One day Shino gets a call from an ex-boyfriend whom she has not met for 30 years. Junko has doubts about her relationship with her boyfriend. Their 3 lives cross and diverge in oblique and tangential ways. As the story weaves around issues of love, relationships, insecurity, death and the blurring between dreams and reality, the men in their lives are always present but hardly seen or heard.