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​ĀN​ (安)

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​Logline: 

 

After the sudden death of her teenage granddaughter, a Singaporean grandmother travels to Boston and stays in the girl’s room, where a hidden journal reconnects her with the granddaughter she thought she knew and leads her toward the truth behind her death.

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Artist Statement:

 

Everything began with something I wrote in my journal that I have never shown to anyone, and a question that stayed with me: what would happen to my family if I were gone?

 

I left my hometown at a young age as an athlete and later came to the United States to study film. Living far from my family for years, I have remained especially close to my mother and grandmother. The older I grow, the more I feel that no matter how far I go, I can never fully grow out of my family.

 

During a very dark time in my life, I thought constantly about life and death. Yet death remains something we avoid talking about, especially with the people we love. In writing ĀN, I began by breaking that silence and asking a question many of us carry: what if something had been different? As the story unfolds, it gradually lets go of “what if” and moves toward something quieter and more difficult: then what.

 

ĀN is a story about motherhood, where love becomes distance and understanding arrives too late or from unexpected places. It is about learning to live without resolution. Grief does not end. But life continues.​​