Confinement (坐月)
Confinement (坐月)
Ash Goh Hua
Ash Goh Hua
Jing returns to Singapore following the birth of her niece, Juliet. To become an aunt she tries to support the family during the traditional month-long postpartum confinement period, inevitably having to confront her contentious relationship with her estranged mother, complex family dynamics, and the cultural politic of her hometown—the very causes of her departure a decade prior.
Film/Moving Image, Narrative Film
2025
About Ash Goh Hua
Brooklyn, NY
Ash Goh Hua is a Singapore born and raised, New York based filmmaker. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms, Ash tells personal stories that reveal the inherently embodied politics of relation, society and culture. Named one of the 25 New Faces of Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2022, Ash is a 2024 Berlinale Talent and a 2025 Creative Capital Award recipient.
Ash began her career in non-fiction with I’M FREE NOW, YOU ARE FREE (2020, distributed by PBS POV Shorts) and the Oscar®-qualifying THE FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO YOU (2022, distributed by The New Yorker, Best Documentary Short Award at the New Orleans Film Festival). Ash ventured into the fiction space with her first narrative short FULL MONTH; supported by Berlinale Talents’ Short Form Station, it world premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Ash is currently adapting this short into her first feature.
Ash Goh Hua is a Singapore born and raised, New York based filmmaker. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms, Ash tells personal stories that reveal the inherently embodied politics of relation, society and culture. Named one of the 25 New Faces of Film by Filmmaker Magazine in 2022, Ash is a 2024 Berlinale Talent and a 2025 Creative Capital Award recipient. Ash began her career in non-fiction with I’M FREE NOW, YOU ARE FREE (2020, distributed by PBS POV Shorts) and the Oscar®-qualifying THE FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO YOU (2022, distributed by The New Yorker, Best Documentary Short Award at the New Orleans Film Festival). Ash ventured into the fiction space with her first narrative short FULL MONTH; supported by Berlinale Talents’ Short Form Station, it world premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Ash is currently adapting this short into her first feature.