Atrophy

By Adib Emran

Brunei | In English | 2022 | 16 min 4 sec | PG

Singapore Premiere

Every day, Ava goes out to work while her husband Ezra stays at home to write his next book. Deeply in love, their union seems to be a picture-perfect one, until a conflict over money starts to build. An unexpected plot twist reveals that there is more to this relationship than meets the eye.

For director Adib Emran, writing this short film was a way to channel his ideas for undeveloped stories based on real-life experiences, and also to contribute to the ongoing dialogue about mental illnesses like schizophrenia.