Motherland

directed by:

Denise Khng

In a parent-teacher meeting at an orderly girls’ school in Singapore, a teacher empathises with a parent’s account of her stress-filled domestic existence as a long-suffering mother to a troubled teenager. But in a system where the roles of parent and child, teacher and student, have to be upheld, and upon which generalised projections easily occur, how true to character is a person when they inhabit the role they’re made to play?