Plan 75 x ArtsWok Collaborative Fundraiser Screening
December 7 @ 2:00 pm - December 15 @ 4:30 pm
$16
This December, the award-winning Japanese film Plan 75 is back on the big screen for a limited run since its release in 2022. Hailed for its sensitivity and haunting premise, the film provides a lens to examine the place of seniors in a rapidly ageing society. Plan 75 will be accompanied by the touching short film Float Free (2024), where a trio of senior women find joy and a new lease of life from learning to swim at Yishun Swimming Complex. Both films offer an incisive and moving portrait of ageing, community, and the value of human connection. This unique pairing is brought together by non-profit arts organisation ArtsWok Collaborative in partnership with indie cinema The Projector.
Plan 75
Directed by Chie Hayakawa
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rated NC16
Set in a parallel dystopian Japan, Plan 75 explores the introduction of a radical nationwide programme for voluntary euthanasia to deal with a super-aged society and the larger psychological repercussions that come with it. The film is a contemplative response to loneliness, human dignity, and what it really means to live.
Float Free
Co-created by Chia Yim Fong, Koh Tong Cheng, and Michelle Sim with Salty Xi Jie Ng
In Mandarin with English and Mandarin subtitles
Rated G
Float Free follows three seniors who overcome their fear of water to learn swimming at an older age. In the process, they discover a shared community, the freedom water provides in old age, and reflections on life and death. The short film was collaboratively scripted by senior collaborators and the lead artist of a recent project under ArtsWok Collaborative’s flagship programme Both Sides, Now.
Members of the public will have a chance to catch Plan 75 and Float Free in the cinema on 7 and 15 December only at The Projector at Cineleisure. Tickets will be available from 15 November 2024. The Projector will be donating a portion of ticket sales from both screenings to ArtsWok Collaborative in support of the work they do in engaging and developing communities. Find out more about ArtsWok’s 2024 fundraising campaign here.
