Small Hours of the Night
︎︎︎Trailer︎SYNOPSIS
Singapore, in the late 1960s — the newly independent country is still grappling with its identity. In a dark room, a woman is trapped, being interrogated by a man. Through the course of one long night, identities blur, and ghosts from the future start to haunt their conversation. Time expands and contracts, bringing together traumas both social and personal in the ever emerging present.
Vicki
Yang Yanxuan Vicki
Interlocuter
Irfan Kasban
︎CREW
Written, Edited and
Directed by
Daniel Hui
Produced by
Tan Bee Thiam
Director of Photography
Looi Wan Ping
Executive Producer
Violet Goh
Co-producer
Grace Shiow,
Glen Goei,
Naoko Ishise
Production Designer
Irfan Kasban
Sound Recordist
Paul Lin
Sound Designer & Mixer
Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr
Music Composer
Cheryl Ong
Original title
Small Hours of the Night
International Title
Small Hours of the Night
Duration
103 min / Colour,
Black and White
Aspect Ratio
1:37 Academy Ratio
Screening Format
2K DCP
Sound
5.1 Surround Sound
Year of Release
2024
Language
English, Malay, Mandarin
Subtitles
English
Country of production
Singapore
Production Companies
13 Little Pictures
In Association with
Tiger Tiger Pictures,
Evanya's Pod,
Jackfruit International
With the support of
Tan Ean Kian Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary Grant,
Purin Pictures,
White Light Studios
PRESS
"Small Hours of the Night occasionally vivifies the hauntological reverberations of silenced voices with humane sorrow. ... Shot in high contrast black-and-white, this is equal parts political critique, psychological drama and cinematic puzzle” - Screen Daily
“Venturing in many different directions, and blurring time periods, Small Hours of the Night is a unique and well-crafted film that offers a vaguely Kafkaesque odyssey, which is filtered through a more contemporary view of paranoia that allows this film to exist at the perfect intersection between the past and the present, explored with tremendous vigour by one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary Asian cinema”- International Cinephile Society
“With its masterful cinematography that is very similar to gazing at photos hanging on the wall of a gallery, “Small House of the Night” encourages us to contemplate the human agonies and his life at the hands of dictators—the narcissistic authorities who enslave their people to fulfil their own desires”
- Universal Cinema
“Venturing in many different directions, and blurring time periods, Small Hours of the Night is a unique and well-crafted film that offers a vaguely Kafkaesque odyssey, which is filtered through a more contemporary view of paranoia that allows this film to exist at the perfect intersection between the past and the present, explored with tremendous vigour by one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary Asian cinema”- International Cinephile Society
“With its masterful cinematography that is very similar to gazing at photos hanging on the wall of a gallery, “Small House of the Night” encourages us to contemplate the human agonies and his life at the hands of dictators—the narcissistic authorities who enslave their people to fulfil their own desires”
- Universal Cinema
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