A Short Film on the May 13 Generation

Name: A Short Film on the May 13 Generation
Director: Jason Soo
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-05-13
Duration: 19 min

201419m

★ 0.0

Drama

This short film was commissioned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of May 13, 1954, in which a peaceful assembly of more than one thousand boys and girls in Singapore was brutally broken up by riot police. The students had gathered to seek exemption for classmates affected by a new conscription law. To continue their protest, 800 students proceed to occupy Chinese High School. The film depicts a possible day in the occupation.

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