Shirkers (2018)

Directed by

Sandi Tan

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 138 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker looks back at a lost independent movie she made as a teenager in Singapore. The documentary explores the friendship and creative energy behind the original project and the strange disappearance of its footage.

reflectivemelancholicintimatepensivenostalgicmysteriouspersonal

What happens

Shirkers is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye, 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary. Shirkers was released on October 26, 2018, on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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