SINGAPORE, Feb. 9 -- Singaporean film Ah Girl has won the Youth Jury Award at the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which ran from January 29 to yesterday in the Netherlands.

It is the first full-length feature by Singaporean director Ang Geck Geck who took 10 years to make it, having also written the screenplay, The Straits Times reported.

"I wanted to tell a story about a broken family, from the perspective of a child going through the pressure (of) having to make important decisions that will affect her life to come. This is also a story about self-love," Ang was quoted as saying in a press statement.

Set in 1990s Singapore, the 99-minute drama follows the titular Ah Girl, aged seven, through the highs and lows of childhoo...