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Review: Bulbul Can Sing (2018)
Photo courtesy of Screen DailyBased in an Assamese village, Rima Das’s titular protagonist, Bulbul, and her teenage friends, Bonny and Sumu experience a coming-of-age discovering their sexualities and...
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STOP10: 'Nervous Translation' by Shireen Seno
Nervous Translation, which had its world premiere at the13th Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival , is a meeting of dreams, childlike perceptions of the world and an intermittent connection with the real...
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STOP10: 'Kado' by Aditya Ahmad
As this year’s winner of the Short Film Award at the Venice Film Festival and recent winner of Best Director and Youth Jury Prize at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards,...
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ShoutOUT! Our 10th Anniversary Comics Online STORE is OPEN! Visit us!
Here is something to spread some festive cheer! Our online shop is up! Welcome to the STORE!What's in the store? It's our 10th Anniversary Comics Merchandise, consisting of posters, postcards and...
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Review: A Land Imagined (2018)
It is difficult to imagine that the Singapore depicted in Hollywood box office hit Crazy Rich Asians is the same city that is depicted in Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined, the 2018 Locarno Film Festival...
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Review: House of My Fathers (2018)
House of My Fathers, which competed in Busan International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival, was recently screened in competition at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival. The film...
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Review: Alpha, the Right to Kill (2018)
In recent years, there has been an undeniable explosion of fictionalised depictions of the origins of “drug wars”. An example is Netflix’s successful dramatised rendering of the birth of America’s War...
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STOP10: Nyanyian Akar Rumput (The Songs of Grassroots) by Yuda Kurniawan
Nyanyian Akar Rumput (The Songs of Grassroots) is a 2018 documentary that recently premiered at the Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival. The film directed by Yuda Kurniawan sheds light on the human rights...
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Review: Dayan (2018)
Can a film be made to bear the weight of history? That seems to be the question that director Behrouz Nooranipour is investigating, following his one-two punch of A157, his 2015 documentary feature and...
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Ten Minutes with Luna Kwok
It's a slightly grey day in early December. We are gathered here today for the Swarovski Inspiring Woman in Film Award Welcome Reception, it is almost four and the energy in the room is oscillating...
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Nervous No More: An Interview with Sammi Cheng
It was almost 13 years ago, in 2005’s Everlasting Regret that auteur Stanley Kwan last worked with superstar Sammi Cheng and it seems most apt that they would choose to work together again to mark what...
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Rithy Panh: “We now live in very dangerous times.”
Here to receive the Honorary Award from the 29th SGIFF, the French-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh is arguably one of the most celebrated documentarian alive today and the most well-known Cambodian...
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Stanley Kwan has 8 words for filmmakers out there
Stanley Kwan is a name that is associated with some of the most iconic images of Hong Kong cinema. His back catalogue of films – among them Women, Rouge, Actress, Hold You Tight, Lanyu, Everlasting...
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Review: The Third Wife (2018)
It is hard to fathom the 19th Century universe of a Vietnamese village that Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife inhabits. It is one that imprisons women with its strict social and behavioural code of conduct,...
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Review: Kampung Tapir (2018)
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ShoutOUT! Singapore International Film Festival partners *SCAPE for National...
The National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) 2019 is here again and brings with it a familiar face. The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) has come onboard as the organiser, cementing NYFA’s status...
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Review: Born Beautiful (2019)
As a sequel to Jun Robles Lana’s successful Die Beautiful (2016), Born Beautiful (2019) is an endearing continuation to Lana’s film. Directed by one of the prequel’s producers, Perci Intalan, Born...
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An interview with Kelvin Kyung Kun Park on 'Army'
For many, growing up means finding a job or starting a family. However, for many Singaporean males, growing up means shaving your head and joining the fellows to carry arms and serve. National Service...
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ShoutOUT! Make a film about Soaring Prices and Stagnant Wages and get a grant...
The 17th edition of Malaysia’s leading international human rights documentary film festival, ‘FreedomFilmFest’ (FFF) will take place in the Klang Valley between 20th – 28th September 2019 and will...
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Building 'Kingdom': An Interview with Tan Wei Keong
After its world premiere at the 2018 Singapore International Film Festival, Tan Wei Keong’s animated short Kingdom travelled to the 2019 Berlinale. In Kingdom, a man wanders into a forest. Alone, he...
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