Shirkers
Jan 21 2018
•2h 37m
•Documentary
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
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Sandi Tan
Self
Sophia Siddique Harvey
Self
Georges Cardona
Self (archive footage)
Philip Cheah
Self
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