Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays
Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2021
Giselle Lin / Singapore / 2021 / 17 min / Colour / DCP / In English, Mandarin / Arabic, English subtitles
Themes: Drama
Rated: 
Parental guidance is advised. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
Description
A mother, trapped in the comfort of memory and mourning, confronts her grief when she is invited to the wedding of her late son’s childhood sweetheart. Inspired by the filmmaker’s own feelings of grief from a family estrangement, ‘Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays’ is a mournful short about how memory affects people through the passage of time, and the bittersweet melancholy that remembrance and eternal love can bring.
Director
Giselle Lin
Giselle Lin is a writer-director born and raised in Singapore. She graduated from the Puttnam School of Film & Animation. Her thesis film ‘Yi yi (Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays)’, had its world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival. Giselle has always wanted to tell stories about women, for women—depicting women’s passions, disappointments, and routines. She finds inspiration in human interaction, the transience of life, and the emotional quality present in all things, living or not.
Credits
- Screenwriter
- Giselle Lin, Lim Xiang Yin
- Producer
- Clyde Kam
- Cinematographer
- Clyde Kam
- Editor
- Dionne Goh
- Cast
- Wendy Toh, Peter Yu, Iris Li