Tilam

Taylor Yin Meng Ong

Singapore / 2024 / Fiction / 24’50”I2502667

Tilam
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SYNOPSIS

A Singaporean mother, Siti, leaves her managerial job to devote herself fully towards preparing her 7-year-old son, Aqil, for an autism assessment. Despite her husband’s worries about Aqil’s delayed development and her mother-in-law’s frustration at Aqil’s inability to speak Malay, Siti attributes these to their ongoing bed bugs infestation and insists on sending him to a mainstream primary school. However, after hiring exterminators and purchasing a new mattress, a bed bug reinfestation finally forces Siti to confront the hard truth about Aqil’s neurodiversity.

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