Shirkers

Documentary memoir detailing young Singaporeans, the indie movie they made, and how it mysteriously disappeared. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at Sundance 2018.

Three teenagers who bonded over a love of underground music and film graduated to making a film of their own, a 1992 cult classic-in-the-making. Or it would have been, explains Sandi Tan in this doco about the film of the same name she wrote and starred in, if every frame of the 16mm footage hadn't gone missing. Decades later, Tan once again sets out to find out what happened.