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Review: Carmen Comes Home // カルメン故郷に帰る (1951)
Carmen Comes Home, Japan’s first ever color feature, dwells somewhere on the fault line of provincialism and its lampooning. Featuring heavily the craggy, somber peaks of Mount Asama, one would be...
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Review: The Surrogate Woman // 씨받이 (1987)
The Surrogate Woman is a celebrated Korean classic directed by Im Kwon-taek, one of Korea’s most prolific and well-known directors. It is a satirical melodrama that examines the psychological...
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ShoutOUT! First Horror Film festival from Golden Village coming this week
Horror takes center stage as Golden Village unleashes its first Horror Film Festival equipped with a diverse line-up of the region's best new horror films interlaced with ghoulish terror to leave new...
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ShoutOUT! 28th Singapore International Film Festival celebrates independent...
>>>>SINdie is proud to be an official media partner for the 28th Singapore International Film Festival!<<<< The growth and potential of independent cinema in Asia has been...
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ShoutOUT!: An SGIFF Film Starter Kit for the New or Undecided
If you are attending the upcoming Singapore International Film Festival for the first time or simply cannot decide what to watch with a limited budget or time, the festival folks are presenting the...
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ShoutOUT!: Team Moonmen grabs GV25 title with 'Chiak'
Winners Team Moonmen Singapore’s leading cinema exhibitor, Golden Village, capped GV25 Film Shorts yesterday evening, crowning Moonmen the winner of its inaugural film short competition for their...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 10 Ways to Enjoy Jack Neo's 'Ah Boys to Men 4'
In celebration of 50 years of National Service, SINdie presents...10 Ways to Enjoy Jack Neo's Ah Boys to Men 4:1. Rest assured that this is the Jack Neo you know and love. Neo is an established veteran...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Falling' by Tang Kang Sheng
Love songs are a time-honoured tradition, and songs about falling out of love and breaking up are just the other side of the coin. As The Eagles sang with lyrical succinctness, "There was no final...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Between Pudukkottai & Singapore' by Vishal Daryanomel
Selected under the Citizen Cinema section of FreedomFilmFest 2017, Between Pudukkottai & Singapore is a documentary film by activist-filmmaker Vishal Daryanomel. The film features the work of N...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Old of Things' by Heather Teo and Victor Gan
In 2016, the residents of the Dakota Crescent estate received notice of eviction in lieu of redevelopment. The film grants exclusive access into the life of Yee Geok Eng, a resident in her late 60s, as...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'One Track Mind' by On The Rocks Productions
You are never too old for toys. That's what these 'boys' live by - a retired banker, a retired handyman, an advertiser, an engineer, and an IT consultant. The short film One Track Mind centers around...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Making Chinatown' by Ming Wong @ Cinerama
The Singapore Art Museum is opening a new show entitled Cinerama: Art and the Moving Image in Southeast Asia, featuring works by 10 artists and collectives. This show will examine the moving image and...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'hUSH' by Kan Lumé and Djenar Maesa Ayu
The trailer for Kan Lumé and Djenar Maesa Ayu's hUSH opens with a voice saying "one of the most important thing in life is to be free". From there we see shots of Cinta Ramlan, an Indonesian musician,...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Diamond Dogs' by Gavin Lim
Making its world premiere at the upcoming 28th Singapore International Film Festival is Gavin Lim's (Fighting Spiders, Tanglin) first feature film, provocatively titled Diamond Dogs. Provocative...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'Nyi Ma Lay' by Chiang Wei Liang
Commissioned for the 28th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Nyi Ma Lay is the latest outing from filmmaker Chiang Wei Liang which will have its world premiere during the festival,...
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STOP10 Nov 2017: 'I Want To Go Home' by Wesley Leon Aroozoo
On the 11th of March, 2011,Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife to the tsunami during the Great East Japan earthquake. Since that fateful day, he has been diving in the sea off the coast of Japan every week...
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STOP10: 10 local films to catch in November 2017
The year in film is certainly ending with an interesting battle for eyeballs between two giants, the 28th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) as well as a very rowdy bunch of boys in...
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Standing up for his fellow men: An Interview with Tosh Zhang
Photos by Mohan DeitrichAbout a month before the release of Ah Boys To Men 4, on an ordinary afternoon, at a corner in the new MediaCorp campus, actor-singer-rapper-vlogger Tosh Zhang reflects on the...
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YOUTH. FILM. TALK. A Conversation Between 3 Generations of SGIFF Youth Jurors
A regional powerhouse in not just its film selection, theSingapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) has always been about giving back to the society and forging new bonds between filmmakers, film...
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A Historian of Tomorrow: An Interview with Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu
Using the post-Suharto Reformasi movement in the late 90s as the basis of extrapolation, the Focus series of the 28th SGIFF features films that explore the diverse developments in Indonesia's...
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