FreshTake! 2025 Screening | III. Love in Frame

FreshTake! 2025 | Programme III. Love in Frame

Fri 18 Jul 2025, 7.30pm to 9pm

Objectifs Chapel Gallery

Ticket prices (per screening programme)

Single concession ticket (student) - $6 (please note that ID may be verified at the door)

Single general ticket - $10

Pair general tickets (10% discount) - $18

Watch All 4 Programmes Package!

**This package grants admission to ALL FreshTake! screenings and 'Cinema & Dialogue: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke X Khozy Rizal'**

Single concession ticket (student) - $20 (please note that ID may be verified at the door)

Single general ticket - $35

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Held in conjunction with the Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator, FreshTake! is a short film programme featuring works by current students from Singapore, or were graduates (between Jan 2024 to Mar 2025) who had completed their films while enrolled as a full-time student. This year, FreshTake! once again uncovers varied perspectives from the next generation of filmmakers in Singapore by presenting a range of films dealing with the broad concerns that today's youths have regarding their future and environment, the use of love as a vehicle to explore societal concerns, as well as the ways in which creative use of humour, suspense, and even fantastical myths are able to elicit different audience responses.

Main Programmes I, II, and III will each be accompanied by a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers.

This year, FreshTake! will also include a Special Programme - Kopi O Kosong. This screening is one of the culminating outcomes of the 2025 Objectifs x Asian Film Archive Film Programmers' Lab, and was programmed by 2 of the Lab's participants: Pan Jia Qi and Exyl.

More information about FreshTake! Main Programmes I, II, and the Special Programme can be found at the bottom of this page.

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Programme III. Love in Frame (Programme rating: NC16 -- Some sexual references)

Love wears many faces. Explore the complex spectrum of love in its romantic and familial forms through this lineup, where young filmmakers offer their unique lens into what it means to care, to connect, and to let go.

Find out more about the films and their directors below:

1. Love Quest by Tan Si Ying, Kevia / NTU WKW / 7 mins / 2024

Love Quest is a performative desktop documentary exploring the complexities of modern dating. Using The Sims, a sandbox game that allows players to freely interact with the game world, the dating experiences of two app users are reconstructed, blurring the boundaries between digital simulation and reality. By merging real-life interactions with digital platform elements to create a dystopian-like reality, the film reflects the gamified nature of modern dating. Through this lens, Love Quest questions whether something as delicate as love can truly be found online.

Director's bio

Kevia Tan is a Singaporean media artist who likes to explore social issues and underlying tensions in everyday life. Through photography and film, she yearns to tell stories that resonate through shared human experiences.

2. My Popo's Favourite Colour is Yellow by Winnie Chua / Yale-NUS / 6 mins / 2025

A girl journeys through moments long left behind, to retrace colours and textures of her grandmother’s home— only to find those memories flawed and misunderstood.

Drifting through disappearing neighbourhoods on car and bus rides, she finds herself amidst fields of shifting watercolours and emotive strokes on yellow post-it notes. They unravel, blur, and collapse into ephemeral fragments of a recalled landscape— a home once so familiar, yet no longer exists.

In its meditation on memory’s multiple facets and subjectivity, these hazy vignettes recreate lost sensibilities of warmth the artist holds closely to her heart, out of love for her grandmother.

Director's bio

Winnie Chua is a Singapore-based illustrator and animator interested in the interplay between image and sound. Her work explores the nuances of intimate experiences—both personal and social—through introspection and reflections on relationships. When she’s not busy petting cats, she enjoys drawing comics and taking walks.

3. Tilam by Taylor Ong / NTU WKW & NUS / 25 mins / 2024

Siti has devoted herself towards preparing her 7-year-old son Aqil - who has autism - for an upcoming psychology assessment; this assessment will dictate if Aqil will qualify for a mainstream primary school. Her family has also been dealing with a bedbug infestation. Despite her husband’s financial worries and her mother-in-law’s frustration at Aqil’s inability to speak Malay, Siti is bent on sending Aqil to a mainstream primary school.

However, Aqil fails the assessment despite his savant-like memory. Compounded with the recurrent bedbug infestation, Siti loses her temper at a distressed Aqil. It is only when Aqil makes a small act of kindness towards her and the bed bugs that Siti is touched by his empathy, finally putting down her pride as a mother and deciding to send Aqil to a special education school.

Director's bio

Taylor graduated from Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, and is also a media scholar of the Infocomm Media Development Authority. Her affinity with filmmaking began at age eleven as a child actress, but her fascination with storytelling soon expanded to roles behind the camera. Interested in questioning the absurdities of established norms in the world we live in, she wrote, directed, and edited her science-fiction dystopian thesis film, Alive (2024), which has been nominated for the Singapore Youth Film Festival 2024. She is now involved in TV production work at Nightjar Films.

4. Mahsuri by Nashrudin Bin Shariffudin / LASALLE College of the Arts / 6 mins / 2024

Falsely accused of infidelity, Mahsuri, a woman of grace and purity, faces betrayal and death, leaving behind a curse that will haunt the village for generations.

Shot in evocative black-and-white and presented as a silent film, Mahsuri pays homage to early cinema and bangsawan theatre (a form of Malay operatic theatre), where folklore tales were brought to life on stage. The film’s soundtrack blends electronic music with traditional Malay sounds, creating a unique fusion that bridges past and present while reinforcing the tale’s enduring legacy.

Director's bio

As an aspiring filmmaker and writer, Nashrudin is deeply passionate about the various subcultures and art movements in South East Asia. He has a strong belief that their stories are valuable and worth sharing with the rest of the world.

5. Felt by Victoria Khine and Tiara Tamilselvan / School of the Arts / 8 mins / 2024

When a high school couple nearing graduation realises they may not align in every timeline, they have to face reality—and then some.

Filmmakers' bios

Victoria Khine is a graduate from Film and Literary Arts at School of the Arts, Singapore. A writer, filmmaker, and artist, she creates from the heart and puts a piece of herself into her art.

Tiara Tamilselvan is a Film and Theatre graduate from School of the Arts, Singapore. A cinematographer and editor at heart, she itches to reconstruct the world around through her unique lens (14mm).

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Click on the following links to find out more and buy tickets for the other FreshTake! screenings:

Programme I. Beneath the Noise

Programme II. Myth & Mayhem

Special Programme - Kopi O Kosong

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About the Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator

The Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator is an initiative started by Objectifs in 2020 that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving image and will provide five selected participants with mentorship and a valuable support network as they work on their scripts.