Dear Father

By Pak Sun Man and Jonathan Lee

Malaysia | In Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles | 2021 | 24 min 30 sec | PG

Singapore Premiere

Dear Father explores a son’s memories of his father through their phone calls, voicemails, unsent letters and photographs. In the film, sequences reflect the phenomenon of generation loss—the reduction in quality when making a copy of a copy—and as these materials accumulate onscreen, they become less vivid and more abstract. What eventually remains are mere traces and disappearances which reveal the deep tenderness in this father-son relationship, palpable even in everyday situations.

Dear Father has travelled to various film festivals, including the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival (2021).