Six years since local filmmaker Boo Junfeng made his feature film debut with Sandcastle— the first Singaporean film to be invited to the International Critics' Week and Cannes Film Festival — he's back with his sophomore feature: Apprentice.
Slated for release this year, Boo's flick will be having its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2016, and the buzz around it has been pretty noteworthy — Apprentice made it to Film4's top ten picks.
The film is a psychological drama centred around Aiman, a young correctional officer who was just transferred to a maximum security prison. He meets one of the world's most prolific executioners — 65-year-old Rahim — a charismatic man who wants Aiman to be his new apprentice at the prison.