At first glance, Not My Mother’s Baking, seems like your typical romance flick of star-crossed lovers set in modern day Singapore.
That is until you start unpeeling the layers to this film by Studio59 Concepts, their second full-length feature and their first film to be showcased at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival.
“It’s a halal/haram film,” Remi M Sali, director of Not My Mother’s Baking told TheHomeGround.Asia during an interview.
“What constitutes halal, and what constitutes haram has always been discussed and debated, and I would dare say taken for granted, but otherwise it’s always been swept under the carpet. That’s something we do not want to hide in our movie,” he explained.
