INSTITUTE: Nanyang Technological University
YEAR: 2019
LANGUAGE: chinese/malaysian
SYNOPSIS: Adam silently invites the viewers to enter his small and troubled daily routine in the city of Singapore. Every gesture and every frame express a tangible tension: a child about 9 years old who desperately tends towards something, something so simple. Adam is the innocence that is about to break in the primitive and universal seeking for an identity, for a place to find himself.
PROFILE: Shoki Lin is a director, writer and cinematographer, graduated from Digital Filmmaking at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His thesis short film Adam was part of the Cinéfondation Selection at the 72nd Festival de Cannes in 2019 and in the same year it was screened at the 30th Singapore International Film Festival. His previous works Chasing Paper was in competition at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival and Changi won the best picture at the 2017 National Youth Film Awards.
