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Review: Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella (2018)
Civil disobedience has always remained something of an enigma to our humble shores. Besides the occasional trifle which explodes into the media spotlight, few cases have ever escalated to a scale that...
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Crossing A Religious Line: An Interview with Maudy Koesnaedi
An interest in a modern retelling of the Adam and Eve story that is Ave Maryam, a narrative feature by Indonesian filmmaker Robby Ertanto, led me to a close encounter with a 90s Indonesian TV soap...
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Review: Konpaku (2018)
Have you ever gone about your day and accidentally run into a small dying animal? Something that’s been wounded and helpless. When confronted with such an image, you run through a gauntlet mix of...
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Review: From Victoria Street to Ang Mo Kio (2019)
From Victoria Street to Ang Mo Kio crystallises a segment of history about Singapore’s first Catholic missionary Chinese girls’ school. It encapsulates the essence and ethos of the institution through...
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Review: Not Here (2019)
Not Here: Human trafficking in the little red dotC/W: Movie contains details of physical tortureNot Here, a local 30-min documentary which was released last month at The Projector and is now available...
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An Interview with Nontawat Numbenchapol on 'Soil Without Land'
Bare feet resting on dry sandy ground, coarse against the skin, while the sun shines down upon their weathered faces. The young men all gathered around a small old wooden table too small to accommodate...
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Review: Temporary Visa (2018)
Singaporean director Ghazi Alqudcy makes a Hitchcockian cameo in his movie Temporary Visa as a character whose apartment will be robbed. It’s a quiet nod to the creative process and places a small...
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Review: Nakorn-Sawan (2018)
"Is sadness and sorrow the same thing?"At the heart of Nakorn-Sawan, a master's thesis film by Puangsoi "Rose" Aksornsawang, lies this question. No doubt the film is drawn from deeply personal wells of...
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ShoutOUT! Call for entries to pitches at the 20th Asian TV Forum
Calling all writers, directors, animators, the Asian TV Forum (ATF), a platform in Asia that connects influential industry players in the entertainment content industry across all genres and platforms...
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Review: Jonaki (2018)
Lolita Chatterjee’s final role before her death last May is the titular Jonaki, a lady on her deathbed. Director Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s second film is composed of tableaux after tableaux, perhaps...
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Dealing with Demons: Daniel Hui on trauma, dissociation and power
“Why should I use you as my actress?” asks Daniel (played by Glen Goei), as he sits across from Vicki (played by Yanxuan Vicki Yang), a prospective actor seeking to star in his new theatre production....
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Just a boy named ADAM: Filmmaker Shoki Lin shares all
The name “Adam” carries baggage of epic proportions. It is an utterance that augurs monumental primacy, and with it: creation, betrayal, sin, temptation, darkness and redemption. Adam, the first emblem...
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Review: Krasue: Inhuman Kiss (2019)
Movie producers need to make up their minds about whether to scare or to enchant. Genre-benders have had a field day in the cinemas in recent years, though one genre usually gets the better of the...
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ShoutOUT! Horror festival Scream Asia returns with a regional short film...
Horror film festival Scream Asia by mm2 Entertainment and Cathay Cineplexes is returning for a second year with a new focus on a regional short film competition. With the aim to develop the horror film...
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ShoutOUT! Grandpa takes home top honours at this year's ciNE65 film competition
Winner of ciNE65 Movie Makers Award and Overall Best Film (Student Category) My Homeland: A Photography Project by Grandpa ChenAt the biennial ciNE65 short-film competition in Singapore, out of the...
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Review: Nobody (2019)
It really takes a lot to scare people these days. After all, reality is stranger than fiction now. For reference, just turn on the news. In Nobody, Eric Khoo’s installment to the HBO Folklore series...
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'Stay Awake, Be Ready': An Interview with Pham Thien An
The story behind the newly crowned Illy Prize winner for best short film at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2019 began as it does in the film—with a motorcycle crash, a fire breathing boy, a night of...
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What You Don't See: An Interview with James Page
We often forget the individuals who have poured countless hours into achieving what we see on screen. Beyond the visuals, the writing, and the performances is the world the characters inhabit....
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Review: Toyol (2019)
The familiar Southeast Asian tale of the Toyol, gets a political twist in Toyol, Malaysian filmmaker Ho Yuhang's contribution to the HBO Folklore series, also screened at the Asian Film Archive's...
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Review: Chanthaly (2012)
Mattie Do’s Chanthaly (2012) opens with warm hues filling the screen: a young girl named Chanthaly, affectionately nicknamed as Chan, skips to her home, her father holding her hand, calling out for her...
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