Singapore Films: To The World & Back Trailer
Nelson Yeo is a Singaporean filmmaker. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Filmmaking from Nanyang Technological University in 2011. He participated in Berlinale Talents Tokyo in 2014, BiFan Fantastic Film School in 2015 and Locarno Filmmakers Academy in 2018. He is currently working on his debut feature film which was selected to participate in SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab 2017.
Total trailers found: 19
25 November 2021
Three former schoolmates—a married couple and a carefree bachelor—now middle-aged, reunite at a chalet.
02 December 2023
In the middle of the night, a woman drags a huge heavy bag on the street. The content of her bag is a mystery.
23 July 2022
A Youtuber posts an irreverent video trolling a megachurch pastor, in defence of his gay twin brother.
21 February 2024
Uncovers the remarkable story of how this small nation has made an indelible mark on Asian cinema in the past five years.
16 June 2018
Where The Light Shines Through documents the genesis and evolution of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness) for National Gallery Singapore’s Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.
01 January 2008
A son witnesses a confrontation between his father and an assassin sent by his longtime arch-rival. Filmed in sepia tones and seeping with sleepy suspense, this Singapore-style HDB Western in the vein of Sergio Leone was first screened at The Substation’s First Take in 2008.
15 July 2018
A chance encounter led a pair of old ex-lovers to unite again under the Five Trees.
28 August 2020
Xun, a Chinese migrant worker, falls in love with Chong, a Malaysian colleague at her warehouse job. Their relationship is like an endless dance of two jellyfish in the ocean, making ends meet with no end in sight.
05 November 2019
Repurposing and manipulating classic film footage and the filmmaker’s personal footage, the film weaves a phantasmagoric narrative of a Chinese lady named Ma Li who dreams she is a Caucasian named Mary.
09 August 2022
In a quiet HDB void deck, one chinese man rants and raves. Believing himself to be the colonial administrator William Farquhar, the man preaches of the contributions he has made to Singapore, in comparison to his superior Stamford Raffles.
05 August 2023
Three middle aged friends reunite for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess unexpressed feelings but their vacation takes a surprising turn when the undercurrent of their past lives threaten to resurface.
14 November 2022
A building in Singapore. Inside it, three people seemingly disconnected not only from each other but from the world as a whole.
12 November 2012
The earthworm is a tunnel with openings on each end where the Earth is consumed and excreted. Shot in the tunnel of the now defunct KTM railway – the tracks that once connected Singapore and Malaysia, Wormhole is a penetrating meditation on Man and orifices.
01 February 2025
An absurdist film in which two lost souls find each other underneath a durian tree. Both fed up with life, and in search of some kind of salvation.
02 December 2022
Set in the poor Mekong Delta coastal village of Thơm Rơm, the film follows the lives of three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature.
15 February 2025
In a discotheque stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each searches for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade.
01 January 2011
What if the world were to come to an end? In this speculative fiction, a post-apocalyptic landscape serves as a site where time and space converge, collide, and splinter.
31 December 2015
Two young children traverse an empty urban landscape and eventually meet in an abandoned building to watch a film.
02 May 2009
Struggling with the memory of a past love, Andrew discovers that letting go is not as straightforward as it seems.
