Private Project

Kill Your Darlings

Tahir is a delivery man whose job requires him to leave home before dawn. Like dawn, he lives a lone life on the edge of society where light and darkness meet. He exists in silence, warring between desire and doubt, until he finds himself with the body of a teenage boy he accidentally ran over. The boy reminds Tahir of things he has long forgotten. In an attempt to reconcile with his past, he escapes with the boy’s body. But when the supposedly dead body starts conversing with him, Tahir’s journey takes a surreal turn.

  • Dong Yutong
    Director
  • Dong Yutong
    Writer
  • Ong Leang Ren
    Producer
  • Luth Armani
    Key Cast
    "The Boy"
  • Ahmad Sani
    Key Cast
    "Tahir"
  • Muhd Irfan
    Cinematographer
  • LEANG REN ONG
    Sound
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Singapore
  • Country of Filming:
    Singapore
  • Language:
    Malay
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35 : 1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - LEANG REN ONG
  • National Youth Film Awards 2023
    SINGAPORE
    Singapore
    Nominated Film
Director Biography - Dong Yutong

Dong Yutong is a writer and director that is exploring and forming a noticeable style in her art work, often experimental and existential. Through discussing these peculiar topics in various artistic forms, she hopes to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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Director Statement

The roads; sometimes it’s an escape, sometimes it’s hope, sometimes it’s a new start.
In the film we never knew where were they headed to, or where do the roads end, and I think that’s the significance of this film!