Ah Girl (2026)

Seven-year-old Swee Swee insists on being called by her Chinese name, sells contraband chewing gum to her schoolmates and loudly pines for a boy in her class in 1994 Singapore. As her parents’ marriage dissolves, she and her sister are shuttled between a mother worn down by work and a father unwilling to show up. The sisters find in each other a rare steadiness that proves children’s innate capacity for care and love—even taking on the problems of adults.