Karen Tan Bee Lin

Opening with a nostalgic karaoke repertoire, Everybody Wins the Lottery delves into the dynamics of a Singaporean family as they deal with the effects of the father’s retrenchment. To keep her family afloat, the mother resorts to extreme financial measures until they miraculously win the lottery. However, this sliver of hope is soon threatened when the ticket mysteriously disappears.

Through a series of escalating voicemail messages, the sonic journey of a mother-son relationship is traversed. As she cycles through a deluge of conflicting emotions, images of a dingy apartment are slowly revealed to haunting effect.

Set in the 2000s, Aqua Man talks about the emotional transformation of a young boy, Junjie, and its religious dilemma of being a gay Christian individual in Singapore.