Best Singaporean animation movies

She and Her Good Vibrations (2023)

A stressed-out middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.

The Kiss (2017)

The endless, frustrating quest to find just the right moment.

Gunkworld (2021)

Using a unique format of episodes and advertisements: GUNKWORLD is a short film about a horror cult cartoon series on TV where the main characters: Gunkman, Sallysweets and Roboji, are cute monster schoolchildren who terrorize human characters. Outside the TV show, GUNKWORLD begins to advertise its brand through commercials and merchandise, which quickly gains popularity at an unholy rate. The entire planet eventually becomes crazed, all their thoughts replaced with messages from GUNKWORLD. Back in the TV show, Gunkman starts to miss his lines. Gunkman is up to something... As a film, GUNKWORLD overloads the viewer with loud, colorful and compressed visuals, audio, stories and designs, playing with ideas of hypnotic subconscious consumption. It paints a vibrant yet ugly picture of needless ‘over-consumption’ and loss of control. GUNKWORLD is also a love letter to Japanese media, seen from the eyes of a child growing up in Singapore during the 90s.

21 (2022)

Marred with her delinquent past, 'Lin' hopes to turn over a new leaf as she graduates from a juvenile rehabilitation centre with stellar scores in the national exam. However, it seems that her streak of unfortunate circumstances trails behind like a spectre lurking in her shadows.

Squish! (2021)

Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.

By Water (2023)

An unlikely hero's journey into his own memories becomes a vehicle for reconciliation and healing for himself and his sibling.

Hot Buns (2022)

In a surreal world of sentient Butts and Hands, a celebrity chef’s outrageous behaviour on live television sparks a movement to empower those at the bottom of society. This cheeky, vividly-handled animated short pokes at the divisive, and often performative politics of equality in a hyper-mediated digital age.

Merlion's Rojak (2018)

Merlion sells rojak at a local hawker center. All his life confused by his mixed identity of fish and lion, he seeks to find an answer within himself.

Space (2013)

At the end of the day, the moon dominates any picture than includes the night sky.

Taximan (2019)

One day in the life of an uncle-a taxi driver who carries different passengers. No meeting passes without a trace for him. By the end of the day, the taxi driver's uncle recovers, meeting his beloved son.

MiMO (2014)

A wondrous, utterly engaging ballet of shapes, incredible creatures and pure, joyous animated movement.

Oddbods snoepen of spoken (2021)

Lavender (2017)

A beautifully drawn surf through an ocean of ever-changing, always morphing animated imagery.

Ebb & Flow (2018)

Clara embraces solitude, however, struggles to find a balance between solitude and loneliness..

Loop (2017)

Sometimes a journey is as much an act of imagination and it is about covering ground.

Tiger Baby (2017)

Felicity has begun to realise her unhappiness with her mundane life in a modern Singapore. Pressured by various aspects of her life, she secretly longs for freedom, in the form of a tiger.

Jù Rén (2020)

A seed is planted. A school of fish washes up onto a barren land. Whilst all the fish leap back into the sea, one wriggles deep into the land.

Sexy Sushi (2020)

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there’s more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers.

Contained (2010)

Stuck on a solitary, windswept rock in the ocean you get to see some crazy things.

Dare (2017)

Dare to do it. If you fall, get back up. If you are held back, break free. Just find the way.

Mosque Mosaic (2015)

A deep dive into a living, breathing, transforming mosaic.

The Road Taken (2017)

Life is about choices – some are grisly, some involve ice cream.

Timescapes (2017)

First officially screened as an anthology film in August 2018 in Seoul International Animated Film Festival, featuring 6 animated short films about life, love and the landscapes of Singapore past and present. With virtually no dialogue, each film is accompanied by a musical score and aims to show how our living landscapes and surroundings intertwine with our memories and imagination. Stories are based on Singapore’s past that spans 80 years. The latest addition is "Erhu", premiered on 5 Feb 2019. ​