When you’re asked to chart out the nation’s next decade, you don’t ask people to believe you. You bring them reasons to hope.

At the ripe old age of 60, Singapore was due its own mid-life crisis. Disillusionment over the ‘Singapore Dream’, cost of living concerns, questions about national identity; the next generation of national leaders had their work cut out for them.

Our ask was to communicate new policies. Instead, we came back with a film anthology that Singaporeans would see themselves in – imperfect, stubborn, united, and above all, hopeful.

This is a selection of personal favourites.