My Magic addresses issues of love, life, family ties, redemption and magic. A single father takes a job as a magician to provide for his son, only to be pressured into dangerous acts. Francis is a man at the end of his tether. The former magician often takes solace in the bottle and barely ekes a living as a cleaner in a nightclub.

 

He has a 10-year-old son whom he desperately loves, but sorrow, guilt and constant inebriation have made him an ineffectual father. Francis hopes to redeem himself and win his son's love and respect by making a painful – and bizarre - return to magic. An unexpected incident one night sets father and son on the road to an uncertain future. In a dilapidated building, these 2 wounded souls come to terms with their love which is as deep and acute as their grief.

 

AWARDS RECEIVED:

My Magic was the first Singapore film to be nominated for the Palme D'Or at 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It was also Singapore's official entry for the Oscars in 2009.

FESTIVALS PARTICIPATED IN:

(2008) Cannes in Competition; Festival International de Films de Fribourg (Grand Prix Regard d’Or); Hong Kong Asian Film Festival; Montreal; Rio de Janeiro; Pusan; Ghent; Tokyo; Stockholm; Rotterdam.