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Giraffe Pictures A widowed programmer who builds a digital copy of his late wife ends up turning grief into a business in “Talk to Me When You Are Dead,” the debut feature from Singapore’s Alvin Lee, produced by Anthony Chen and Gina Tan.
The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).
In the near-future story, Yong Yi makes a digital replica of his wife Kate to cope with losing her. A friend spots a market and talks him into a startup that sells grief-bots to the newly bereaved. Yong Yi is then hired to quietly build a replica of Mr. Yun, a celebrated architect who is terminally ill. Hiding his real purpose to get close to him, Yong Yi records Mr. Yun’s memories, and the two grow into something like father and son. As Mr. Yun weakens, Yong Yi must choose between finishing a well-paid job and protecting a fragile man he now cares about, a crisis that finally makes him face what really happened to Kate. The project is pitched as a black dramedy that probes the line between real connection and digital preservation.
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