Based on Simon Tay’s homonymous, Singapore Literature Prize-winning novel, “City of Small Blessings” marks the return to feature filmmaking for Wong Chen-hsi, after 2012 and “Innocents”, and premiered in Singapore this year.
Retired civil servant Prakash is 72 years old and lives a calm and harmonious life with his wife Anna in an old house with a garden. Just as the movie begins, he is receiving an award for his contribution to the State mostly as the long-time principal of a prestigious school, but also in higher positions in the government. Prakash does not miss any chance to talk about the importance and the benefits of civil service, but his mindset changes completely when he realizes that the state has acquired their home, which will be demolished to make way for a new train line. Unwilling to accept this reality, he seeks to amend the ruling, resorting to increasingly desperate measures,...
Retired civil servant Prakash is 72 years old and lives a calm and harmonious life with his wife Anna in an old house with a garden. Just as the movie begins, he is receiving an award for his contribution to the State mostly as the long-time principal of a prestigious school, but also in higher positions in the government. Prakash does not miss any chance to talk about the importance and the benefits of civil service, but his mindset changes completely when he realizes that the state has acquired their home, which will be demolished to make way for a new train line. Unwilling to accept this reality, he seeks to amend the ruling, resorting to increasingly desperate measures,...
- 12/24/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
City Of Small Blessings and Tomorrow Is A Long Time will both shoot in Singapore this year.
Akanga Film Asia, the Singapore-based company behind last year’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, has two new international co-productions scheduled for filming this year, including City Of Small Blessings which stars A Passage To India actor Victor Banerjee.
Fran Borgia, the Spain-born, Singapore-based founder of Akanga, is co-producing the new film with Gary Goh of Singapore’s mm2, Marion Guth of Luxembourg’s a_BAHN and Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films. Based on the novel by Simon Tay,...
Akanga Film Asia, the Singapore-based company behind last year’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner A Land Imagined, has two new international co-productions scheduled for filming this year, including City Of Small Blessings which stars A Passage To India actor Victor Banerjee.
Fran Borgia, the Spain-born, Singapore-based founder of Akanga, is co-producing the new film with Gary Goh of Singapore’s mm2, Marion Guth of Luxembourg’s a_BAHN and Claire Lajoumard of France’s Acrobates Films. Based on the novel by Simon Tay,...
- 3/17/2019
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
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