Complaints Choir

Running time: 57 mins

One man?s misery is another man?s art.

Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen had a great idea - go around the world collecting people?s complaints, transforming them into a song and having the complainers perform it. And that?s exactly what they did. The result is often hilarious, both in the wide range of whines and grumbles and in the creative way these often trivial cavils are made into music.

But when the Complaints Choir gets to Singapore, things turn more serious. The government forbids people to air their grievances. Suddenly the artists are confronted with issues they never dreamed of - censorship and totalitarianism. And what started out to be a frivolous campaign is altered into something much more substantive - a ban on free speech. Delightful, comical and provocative at the same time, this remarkable film guarantees you will have no complaints.

- Sandy Wolf