Movies: The Tan Ean Kiam Foundation Sgiff Southeast Asian Documentary

  • 2024
    Breaking the Cycle

    Breaking the Cycle (2024)

    Breaking the Cycle

    72024HD

    A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in this energetic exploration of the recent elections in Thailand....

    Breaking the Cycle
  • 2019
    Aswang

    Aswang (2019)

    Aswang

    7.82019HD

    Aswang follows a group of people whose lives have been caught up in these events: a journalist who tries to make a stand against lawlessness, a coroner, a missionary brother who comforts bereaved family members, and a street kid with parents in priso...

    Aswang
  • 2024
    Hours of Ours

    Hours of Ours (2024)

    Hours of Ours

    02024HD

    A Sudanese family fees their country, seeking asylum in Thailand. They meet a young flmmaker, newly returned after a decade away from home. Despite their uncertain future, they form a heartfelt bond. They decide to make a flm together....

    Hours of Ours
  • 2021
    Worship

    Worship (2021)

    Worship

    5.72021HD

    Worship is premised on a hard reality of the poor in Thailand: the only way for them to climb the economic ladder is not with hard work and financial prudence, but by winning the game of chance—lottery. Many of them thus stay devoted to their faith o...

    Worship
  • 2020
    Ploy

    Ploy (2020)

    Ploy

    02020HD

    Longing for a life beyond her hometown in the Thai province of Buriram, Ploy moves to various Southeast Asian cities in search of work. She ends up in Singapore as a sex worker at an illegal, makeshift brothel operating under the cover of a jungle’s ...

    Ploy
  • 2021
    Some Women

    Some Women (2021)

    Some Women

    02021HD

    With bracing honesty, filmmaker Quen Wong shares her journey as a transgender woman in Singapore—from her days as a teenage boy coming out to her uncommonly supportive family, to the present as a woman about to marry the love of her life. Locating he...

    Some Women