TO SPEAK

By Craig OWER

INFOCOMM MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2007


    • Year of production
    • 2007
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • SINGAPORE
    • Languages
    • KHMER
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Craig OWER
    • Producer(s)
    • Lionel CHOK
    • Synopsis
    • Based on a true story.....
      Ratana is a 12-year-old Cambodian girl, living in a tenuous existence in an improverished rural community. Despite the suffocating pessimism of her fellow villages, she dreams of a better life, and of building a new and permanent house for her family.
      A better future seems impossible however, until a local development agency suggests a radical plan for achieving her dreams. The rest of the village thinks that Ratana is mad to trust the 'outsiders', but she seizes the opportunity and sets herself on a collision course with her family, the village and even Mother Nature herself.
      To succeed, Ratana will need to rise above the grind of daily survival and also grapple with the terrible legacy of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields.
      In the pursuit of her dreams, Ratana will be pushed to the very limits of her strength and spirit - to the point where too much hope can crush you.