Directing

Ric Aw

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Directing

Credits

13 titles

Ric Aw has been making films that reflect on the human conditions since 2005. Ric’s work is always looking into dark corners, finding the light, addressing the themes of justice, transformation, love and hope. ​ He has directed 9 short films and Standing in Still Water (2015, 90 min) is his first feature film that explores the interwoven lives of four damaged individuals, whose collision takes place at a reservoir. He directed That Afternoon We Went to See the Pandas (2014, 20 min) that is an adaptation of Liang Wern Fok’s short story and we enter the world of a China immigrant couple who is finding a home in Singapore. The short film was screened at Clermont-Ferrand International Film Fes…

Known for

Behind the camera

7 Letters poster
6.5

An emotive anthology by seven of Singapore's most illustrious filmmakers, celebrating SG50 through the lives and stories of Singaporeans. Directed by Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K. Rajagopal, Royston Tan, Tan Pin Pin, Boo Junfeng, Kelvin Tong.

7 Letters

2015

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6.0

A scatological comedy that blends live action and animation. What happens to toilet graffiti when we’re not looking?

SuperDONG

2007

Mei Ling Street poster
NR

Ah Ping is a widower whose solitary life gets disrupted when his flat is confiscated. As he struggles to navigate through the bureaucracy, he crosses path with a troubled youth and revives this old dog of Mei Ling Street.

Mei Ling Street

2017

Mei Ling Street poster
NR

Ah Ping is a widower whose solitary life gets disrupted when his flat is confiscated. As he struggles to navigate through the bureaucracy, he crosses path with a troubled youth and revives this old dog of Mei Ling Street.

Mei Ling Street

2017

Villain poster
NR

Ying, a 13 year-old girl and a frequent shoplifter, becomes a pawn in her father's scam.

Villain

2013

Villain poster
NR

Ying, a 13 year-old girl and a frequent shoplifter, becomes a pawn in her father's scam.

Villain

2013

Standing in Still Water poster
NR

Standing in Still Water reflects a few damaged lives, including a crippled young woman on the road of recovery; a man who sinks a dark secret to the bottom of the reservoir; the tale of a man struggling to recover from the loss of his daughter, and a young father who fails to reach out to his autistic son. The reservoir, the life-giver and life-taker, connects these four characters who face loss, death, hope, and love. And they are ultimately swept away by unrelenting waves of change.

Standing in Still Water

2014

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NR

A box of broken Tau Sar Piah (chinese biscuit) has caused a rift between a father and son that spins over 2 decades.

Piah

2014

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NR

A box of broken Tau Sar Piah (chinese biscuit) has caused a rift between a father and son that spins over 2 decades.

Piah

2014

mister COWBOY poster
NR

Meet line-dancing fanatic mister COWBOY who has to work on the night of the largest line dancing party. Our night watchman escapes the dread of working the graveyard shift by conjuring doubles of himself. Yet this imagination takes a life of its own and begins to haunt and condemn him to a journey of self-discovery.

mister COWBOY

2011

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NR

​ A young couple from Chengdu, China, struggles to build a perfect home in Singapore. As their dream of becoming Singaporeans seems more and more remote, they decide to go and see the pandas.

That Afternoon We Went to See the Pandas

2014

No artwork available
NR

​ A young couple from Chengdu, China, struggles to build a perfect home in Singapore. As their dream of becoming Singaporeans seems more and more remote, they decide to go and see the pandas.

That Afternoon We Went to See the Pandas

2014

No artwork available
NR

"My Face" is a short film that tells the story about the psychological and emotional challenges faced by children with cleft and craniofacial anomalies. Presented by the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, KKH, the short film "My Face" hopes to raise awareness of the social stigmatisation they face.

My Face

2019