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Short Film Review: The Smell of Coffee (2020)
Of all possible experiences that are shared among all, love and grief are two that constantly pull us back to our sense of humanity. Although different in details and vast in intentions, they are...
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Short Film Review: A Long Way Home (2018)
A Long Way Home by Lao New Wave cinema cofounder, Xaisongkharm Induangchanthy sees a Lao-American man fulfilling his father’s dying wish - to bring his ashes back home to Laos. Crucially, this story...
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ShoutOUT! Singapore International Film Festival Announces Recipients of Film...
This year’s recipients of SEA-DOC and SEA-SHORTS Film Grants are announced as the festival continues its support of Southeast Asian film and builds on past success. From top to bottom Film Still from...
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ShoutOUT! YOU ARE INVITED! Premiere & Awards: Singapore Mental Health Film...
The Singapore Mental Health Film Festival (SMHFF) is excited to welcome all to join them on Facebook "Live" for the Premiere & Awards Ceremony of SMHFF Short Film Youth Competition...
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Short Film Review: $alary Day (2020)
$300 to family back home, $110 budgeted for food, $20 for a mobile top up and $12 on groceries leaves $8 cash on hand. Such is the stringent budgeting required by our protagonist, whose meagre monthly...
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Short Film Review: Three Wheels (2015)
A nostalgic song plays on the radio at night as an old tuk-tuk driver travels lonesomely along the road. He returns home to a dark room. Lights a candle and smokes before laying out his bed and...
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Short Film Review: Anino (2000)
Anino (2000) is directed and written by Raymond Red, widely considered to be one of the pioneers in Filipino alternative cinema. Anino was the first Filipino film to win a Cannes Film Festival award...
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Short Film Review: Juren // 巨人 (2019)
Still water runs deep. In a placid stop motion animated piece that transports the viewer into a somewhat surreal underwater world, complete with the quintessential ‘Nat Geo’ marine life soundtrack, our...
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ShoutOUT! [AFA's First Fully Online Programme] Whose House is This?: New...
Whose House is This?: New Cinema of Central Asia is the first online programme from the Asian Film Archive (AFA) that will be presented entirely online, as part of its new initiative, Rewired.Rewired...
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Short Film Review: Boonrerm (2015)
Boonrerm by Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan was recently made available for online viewing via the Lockdown Cinema Club, an initiative by Filipino filmmakers to help raise money for independent...
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Review: Senior Year (2010)
Depending on where you fell in the social hierarchy of adolescent politics, high school could have been a pretty great or a pretty terrible time for you. Academic performance aside, the social...
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Film Review: Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (2011)
As an advocate of slow cinema, Lav Diaz’s films are not so much concerned with capturing Filipino reality as they are with expressing the emotive struggles that plague its society. His oblique...
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mm2 Launches On-Demand Streaming Platform Cathay CineHOME
mm2 will be launching their On-Demand Streaming Service Cathay CineHOMESingapore-based media group mm2 Asia (hereby “mm2”; SGX: 1B0) has unveiled plans to launch a new on-demand streaming platform...
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ShoutOUT! Video artist and filmmaker Chulayarnnon Siriphol's 5 years worth of...
Bangkok City Gallery has launched Give Us A Little More Time, an ongoing project since 2014, by a video artist and film director, Chulayarnnon Siriphol. He painstakingly put together 5 years' worth of...
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Short Film Review: Ruwatan (2019)
We hear the sound of children and traffic before we see Sri’s mother, centre-framed and her back turned to us. In a moment, we will see Sri framed similarly from the front, her face ill-lit in spite of...
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Farewell to the Scala
Wearing face shields and holding flashlights, middle-age men in unique uniforms of yellow jackets and black bow ties eagerly led hundreds of moviegoers to their seats inside one of the oldest theatres...
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10 Singapore films that can give you some political education
In Singapore, party political films are against the law unless it is a documentary that presents actual events, persons or situations, in an untampered fashion, free from any form of dramatisation. The...
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Brian Gothong Tan: "I just wanted to express what I know and feel."
Brian Gothong Tan is an award-winning visual artist and filmmaker. An alumnus of California Institute of Arts, he works extensively across a multitude of artistic fields—from designing multimedia for...
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ShoutOUT! Viddsee Juree Awards Singapore 2020
Viddsee is hosting their latest Juree Awards Singapore, the third one held in the city state. Viddsee has just opened up their call for entries to Singaporean short film makers on 30 June. Viddsee is...
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Student Voices: Here are five compelling ones from the National Youth Film...
Sitting through over 120 short films is a chore. Sounds like jury duty? Yes indeed. And I tried my very best to keep ‘viewing conditions’ similar for all short films. Like not snacking on ice-cream or...
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