Small Hours of the Night

Singapore, in the late 1960s—the newly independent country is still grappling with its identity. In a dark room, a woman is trapped, being interrogated by a man. Through the course of one long night, identities and duration start to blur. Ghosts from the future haunt their conversation, telling of a bizarre tombstone trial that speaks to the state’s nascent political and legal landscape. With its striking cinematography and sound design, Small Hours of the Night offers a Kafkaesque odyssey filtered through contemporary paranoia. This allows this well-crafted docu-fiction to exist at the perfect intersection between the past and the present, explored with tremendous vigour by one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary Asian cinema.