POP AYE
SYNOPSIS
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together – only to discover the truth about himself.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Prize for Screenwriting
Rotterdam Film Festival - VPRO Big Screen Award
Zurich Film Festival - Best International Feature Film Award
Bangkok Asean Film Festival - Special Jury Prize
Off Camera Film Festival, Poland - International Film Critics Award (Fipresci)
Thai National Film Association Awards - Nominations in 5 categories
The Academy Awards (Foreign Film Category) - Singapore's nomination
REVIEWS
"The first feature by New York-based, Singapore-raised writer-director Kirsten Tan is unhurried and unforgettable. Tan ultimately is concerned with what’s unknowable and mysterious in all of us. " - Hollywood Reporter
"Warm yet unsentimental, graced with the lightest touch of surrealism." - Variety
"We’re immensely pleased to be working with such an original talent in Kirsten Tan on this audience charmer. Pop Aye is poetically profound, but the elephant in the room is really its warm heart. ” - Kino Lorber
PRESS
- Hollywood Reporter 'Oscars: Singapore selects Pop Aye for Foreign-language category'
- Hollywood Reporter 'Zurich: Pop Aye wins Best Feature Film Award'
- Strait Times 'Filmmaker Kirsten Tan wins another prize, this time at Rotterdam'
- Channel News Asia 'Singaporean Filmmaker Kirsten Tan wins prestigious award at Sundance'
- Indiewire 'Kino Lorber acquires POP AYE Sundance 2017'
- Hollywood Reporter 'POP AYE film Review'
- Variety 'Sundance film review POP AYE'
- Screen International 'POP AYE review"
- Variety 'Popeye, Contestant, Mother Among Cannes Cinefondation Atelier titles'
- Variety 'Cannes: Torino Film Lab announces it's nine selected projects'
- Screendaily 'Popeye wins top Torino Film Lab prize'
Country: Singapore/Thailand
Prod Cos: Giraffe Pictures; E&W Films; A Girl And A Gun; 185 Films
Year: 2017