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Review: No Data Plan (2018)
No Data Plan feels like a dream. No. It feels like a series of consecutive dreams. It immerses you in the journey depicted and each time a new voice speaks, it feels like you are recalling this from a...
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ShoutOUT! Head down to *SCAPE for Viddsee's 2nd Juree Awards Singapore
Head down to *SCAPE today for a weekend of film, fun and workshops. Viddsee's three-day Juree Singapore Awards Programme features a number of activities including talks, and screenings that are open to...
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On Grief, Ritual, and Displacement: An Interview with Siyou Tan on 'Hello...
Siyou Tan’s Hello Ahma (2019) opens with FaceTime footage. We see an eight-year-old Singaporean girl later revealed to be named Michelle (played by Sofie Yu Xuan Yang) in the corner, watching as a...
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ShoutOUT! SGIFF announces full line-up, 'Downtown Abbey''Nina Wu' special...
Singapore, Singapore - The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) has released its full lineup during its media conference at Shangri-La Hotel. Featuring more than 90 titles from over 40...
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Review: 一路來 // Through the Border (2018)
When faced with the awareness of one’s own impending mortality, learning how to navigate this newfound knowledge must be perplexing. Teo Qi Yu’s 一路來, or Through the Border, rests on this premise....
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Review: Music Saves My Soul by Xaisongkham Induangchanthy @Seashorts
Sitting through this film, I have the urge to stand up from my seat, reach through the screen and give Mrs Khamlek a big hug if she'd let me. Baring her soul to the world and sharing her voice through...
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Review: Fireflies by Robin Estargo @SeaShorts
Three friends seek sanctuary in music, in this ambitious musical short by 21-year-old Philippine filmmaker Robin Estargo that enchants more than not. Fireflies follows a wannabe songwriter, a closeted...
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Interview with Mattie Do on 'The Long Walk'
I’ve always had an obsession with horror, there is something fascinating about the genre that draws me in. Maybe it is something to do with the taboo concepts the genre often dabbles in, about...
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Interview: Seasonal Rain by Aung Phyoe @SeaShorts
Some years ago, Seasonal Rain director Aung Phyoe came together with a group of friends to start a blog featuring creative writing. The stories written by Kyi Aye, an acclaimed modernist writer in...
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Review: We Still Have to Close our Eyes (2019)
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Review: Cleaners
The first thing that strikes you about Cleaners is its unique photocopied texture – or, per the term modern Internet slang has appropriated for itself, aesthetic. In this day and age, where filters are...
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Review: Babae at Baril (2019) @QCinema
Following a brutal rape by her colleague, a departmental store sales girl goes on a rage-driven rampage against anyone who tried to take advanatge of her in her life, basically all men. The trigger,...
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Review: 'Reminiscences of the Green Revolution' (2019)
Fluorescent AdolescenceScreened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival under the Short Cuts 01 progamme, Reminiscences of the Green Revolution is a short film from Dean Colin Marcial, a...
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Review: I Dream of Singapore (2019) @SGIFF
A construction worker suffers from a ghastly gash on his abdomen. A poet speaks to eager, young students. A young man in a “I Love Singapore” shirt weeps as he prays.While these three figures may seem...
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Yuni Hadi: “The most exciting thing is when we watch and discover.”
With SGIFF just a week away, we catch up with Yuni Hadi, Festival stalwart and executive director, to talk about running a film festival, life lessons, and all the exciting additions to the historied...
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Anthony Chen: “If I cannot persuade myself, I cannot persuade my audience.”
The homecoming of Anthony Chen is in many ways one of the most highly anticipated events in the Singapore film landscape. Being the first Singaporean to clinch a Golden Horse and a Cannes Camera d'Or,...
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Review: Lián (2019) @SGIFF
For Lián and her family, daily entertainment is the scratching of chalk against shoddy metal, comfort a flimsy tarp on grimy ground, and home the claustrophobic entrapments of a cargo container....
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Review: Revolution Launderette (2019) @SGIFF
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Lucky7 @SGIFF: It's OK to laugh now
Roughly a decade after the Singapore premiere of the omnibus Lucky7 in the 2008 edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (see picture below from the 2008 post-screening Q&A), I found...
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Review: The Science of Fictions (2019)
Shown in the Concorso internazionale category of this year’s prestigious Locarno Film Festival, Yosep Anggi Noen’s The Science of Fictions (trans. Hiruk-pikuk si al-kisah) received a special mention...
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