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Festival 2026
What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world. (至柔至堅)
Singapore, 2024

Directed by
Charmaine Poh
Running time
15 mins

This hybrid documentary offers a glimpse of queer parenthood in Singapore, where such families are illegitimate in the eyes of the law. It borrows its title from Ursula K. Le Guin’s rendition of the Dao De Jing and refers to the dichotomy of water and stone. By gathering sensibilities of the natural world, Eastern cosmology, and interdependence, the film presents queerhood as an open field of possibility, one brimming with life that is to come.


Tickets


30 May 2026, 1:30 PM
Genesis Cinema 
Director Bio



Charmaine Poh (b. 1990) is an artist from Singapore working across media, moving image, and performance to peel apart, interrogate, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity.