Category: Category II (Young Adults – aged 17 to 25)

Team: Team Door
School: Republic Polytechnic

Andrea and Betty are best friends. After a long school day, Andrea invites Betty to hang out with her after school, to which Betty hesitantly agrees. At a desolate car park, Andrea offers her a mysterious substance, claiming it to be all natural and healthy. Faced with the pressure and dilemma of upsetting her closest friend and not wanting to succumb to substances, what choice will Betty pick? Her fate lies in her own hands, and does she pick a happy ending for herself?

Team: Cammies Production (Team 1)
School: Republic Polytechnic

After losing his older sister Ava to drug addiction, Emma finds herself trapped in the same destructive cycle. Haunted by guilt and Eva’s ghostly presence, Emma struggles with withdrawal, denial, and the weight of her past. As she spirals deeper into addiction, visions of her sister force her to confront the painful truth: the very person who introduced her to drugs is now begging her to stop. With Emma’s final pill in her hand, she stands at a crossroads will she follow the same path, or break free from it?

Team: Team 2
School: Republic Polytechnic

Soorya is a student in RP, struggling to keep up with his assignments. Though his friends alsocomplain about the business of this period, the impact it has on Soorya is significantly more intense.After class one evening, Soorya is more exhausted than usual. His teacher talked to him about theassignments he’s missing, causing even more stress than he’s used to. He usually goes home with hisfriends after class, but he tells them that he has plans to study with a friend just this evening.However, instead of heading to somewhere conducive for studying, he suspiciously enters thestairwell. He waits there for his friend, seemingly nervous. His friend reveals a stick of marijuana forSoorya to try. A sudden case of cold feet, Soorya tries to back out but gives in afterpersuasion/convincing from his friend. He tries a couple puffs, finally starting to relax.

Team: RProd4
School: Republic Polytechnic

Melvin traumatized by his own nightmares, and overdoses pills. His friend, Daniel, manages to save him in time before it gets critical. Melvin takes small steps towards recovery after that incident and appreciates the help he has from people around him.

Team: Take Six
School: Republic Polytechnic

It tells the story of a baker with his own independent business of making pastries who struggles overcoming his past with drugs. It shows how much the past can still take control of one despite it being over.
This video will illustrate how the baker has turned a new leaf and is more contented, financially successful with people that look forward to his services – but will he be able to hold on to this life of his or revert to the old days?

Team: RP Clement lover
School: Republic Polytechnic

Nicole Ting is eighteen when her world breaks. Her mother, long consumed by addiction, passes away — leaving Nicole with a younger brother to care for and a silence that settles over their home like a shadow. She tells no one how lost she feels. Not her teachers. Not her friends. Just her counsellor.

Now, with her mother gone, School becomes unbearable. The noise, the pressure, the pretending. Nicole starts zoning out, missing classes, disappearing from the people who care. Her body shows up, but her mind is elsewhere — spiraling through flashes of her past, her mother’s tears, her mistakes, and the secret she’s been carrying.
What no one knows, is that she had already given in long before.

As her grip on daily life loosens, her best friend begins to notice. The missed texts. The empty chair in class. The way Nicole flinches at simple questions. Instead of confronting her, the friend shows up in quiet, gentle ways — inviting her out for walks, asking her to stay a little longer, listening without judgment.

Slowly, Nicole begins to respond. Not all at once. But with presence. With moments of honesty. With the understanding that someone still sees her, even when she can’t see herself.

Grief doesn’t disappear. Healing isn’t instant. But Nicole begins to realise that the path she’s been walking doesn’t have to be her future. That her brother needs her. That she needs her.
And this time, when the choice returns, she might just choose differently.

She begins to recover, with the help of therapy and counselling.

Team: Team2_T257
School: Republic Polytechnic

After school, a group of students gather in a classroom to start work on their final-year project. Rayden sits with them but doesn’t contribute. He’s distracted, staring at his phone. The rest of the group are discussing roles and timelines. A notification pings in the class group chat. The lecturer has posted: “Group Leader for Group 2: Rayden.” Everyone looks at him. Some are confused. Aiman watches him closely. 2.

As the group questions Rayden on the group work, he panics and fidgets with a plastic bag in his pocket, Aiman notices this. As he walks out, a small plastic packet falls out of his hoodie pocket. Aiman notices it and locks eyes with Rayden. Rayden then runs out of the classroom, saying he needs to go to the toilet.

Rayden enters the school toilet. He closes the door behind him and takes out the packet of powder. He opens it up but then he gets hit with a wave of memories and thoughts from his parents, this causes him to distress and crash out.

Aiman enters the toilet to check on Rayden, Rayden lashes out at him. Rayden looks up to the mirror to see a drugged up version of himself staring back, he washes his face and checks again to see this version of him gone.

Rayden then takes a step back and realises that he needs to stop this. He pours away the powder from the bag into the sink and washes it away with water. He stares at himself in the mirror.

Rayden enters the classroom. Aiman is happy to see him. Rayden starts dealing out tasks to the team and they begin their work.

Team: Team 5
School: Republic Polytechnic

The story starts off with the main character in a park at night, waiting for someone to deliver his drugs. Once the dealer arrives to trade the goods, the mc gives it a try and enjoys the effects.

Days pass by and the mc is still going at it with the drugs that he bought. As he continues, he proclaims that he enjoys and loves the feeling of it all but his physical body is progressively getting worse and worse. His friend shows worry but the mc brushes it aside.

One day, while making his way to the bathroom for his daily does, his friend follows along behind him. When the mc isn’t looking, the friend steals it and hides it from him. The mc snaps and gets angry, the friend tries to calm him down and admits he took his drugs. Angrily, the mc pushes his friend. The mc stumbles and faints in the process for which his friend checks up on him.

It ends with the mc talking to the therapist about how he doesn’t want to live like this anymore.

Team: Group 4
School: Republic Polytechnic

Hakeem has been hiding his drug addiction from his sister since their parents left them. He could not find help anywhere and continued to abuse drugs.

His sister has been working tirelessly to support them both. Unbeknownst to Hakeem, she was diagnosed with cancer. She comes home to see him abusing drugs while he was caught off guard.

She was severely disappointed in him. Thankfully, after he promised her to change, she handed Hakeem her phone with 1771 (drug helpline for Singapore).

A week later, she saw the drugs thrown in the trash and discovered that Hakeem had decided to turn his life around and applied for a job at a health authority in Singapore.

Team: feefaifoofamfoh
School: Republic Polytechnic

In a world where culture and environment often shape our choices, Navigating Culture dives into the hidden influences behind drug abuse. Through a personal interview with someone who has walked the difficult path of addiction, this documentary sheds light on how societal norms, peer pressure, and cultural narratives can subtly lead individuals down dangerous roads. Rather than pointing fingers, this film explores the deeper “Why?” challenging viewers to question what they accept as normal and to consider the long-term impact of their choices. A powerful, thought-provoking look at the role of culture in shaping our attitudes toward drug use.