Dreaming & Dying
New Directors/New Films 2024
April 3 - 14, 2024
At midlife, three high school friends appear in a peculiar love triangle, unclear if they are grappling with unresolved desires from the past or repressed yearnings of the present in Singaporean director Nelson Yeo’s debut feature.
- Q&A with Nelson Yeo on Thursday, April 11 at 6:00 PM at MOMA
- Q&A with Nelson Yeo on Friday, April 12 6:00 PM at FLC
High school reunions are invariably awkward, all the more so when only three people show up. At midlife, those three (Peter Yu, Doreen Toh, Kelvin Ho), two married to each other, appear in a peculiar love triangle, unclear if they are grappling with unresolved desires from the past or repressed yearnings of the present. Their romantic entanglement is given a middle-age-appropriate treatment; mysteries of the adult heart find subtly comical expression through a merman, a talking fish, and various surreal scenarios. Channeling Hong Sangsoo’s razor-sharp and at times offbeat gaze, as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s affinity for fantasia and nature, Singaporean director Nelson Yeo’s debut feature, winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmaker of the Present award, combines reality and magic to provide three troubled souls with a moment to dream.
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