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Review: Setting Moon // 孟 (2019)
The film sets itself in a darkened river enclosure, evoking a sense of the foreign and the mystical. Its grayscale palette is a hint at either a flashback, a dream or the afterlife. A tiny wooden boat...
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Film Review: Monsoon (2019)
Henry Golding, who has achieved mainstream fame starring in big-budget Hollywood movies like Crazy Rich Asians, A Simple Favor and Last Christmas, comes back to a more grounded film in Monsoon by...
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ShoutOUT! nuSTUDIOS' Point & Shoot 55 Hours Short Film Challenge is back on...
In collaboration with the National University of Singapore & Centre for the Arts, nuSTUDIOS Film Productions, the Film Production House of the student-run guild in the National University of...
View ArticleShoutOUT! Support Objectifs! 20 for 2020
Buoyed by the generosity of 20 Singapore photographers, filmmakers and artists, Objectifs has embarked on their first fundraiser, 20 for 2020.Each of the 20 artists in this campaign has donated the use...
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Film Review: Tiong Bahru Social Club (2020)
Collective happiness has become a chimeric goal of governance. Nonetheless, with the rise of Big Data, some have made attempts to achieve it. Bhutan has established its own “Gross Domestic Happiness...
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Film Review: Not My Mother's Baking (2020)
Just in case you were wondering what the film title means, it’s a millennial daughter spiting her celebrity mother’s bakery-driven fame by starting a YouTube channel named as such, featuring her own...
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ShoutOUT! FreedomFilmFest 2020 tackles representation and identity with its...
FreedomFilmFest (FFF), Malaysia's leading human rights documentary film festival is back and going virtual for the very first time from 10th - 13th December 2020.Facing a global pandemic, the Freedom...
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Short Film Review: Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 1
Programme 1 of the Singapore International Film Festival's (SGIFF) Southeast Asian Short Film Competition this year offers a diverse selection of shorts discussing melancholia and self-discovery. From...
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Short Film Review: Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 2
Meditations on positions of liminality are discussed here in Programme 2 of the Singapore International Film Festival's (SGIFF) Southeast Asian Short Film Competition. Encompassing a diverse range of...
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Short Film Review: Southeast Asia Short Film Competition Programme 3
Programme 3 of the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition of this year’s Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) contains four very different stories, each one compelling in ways that the others...
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ShoutOUT! 6 Southeast Asian Projects Awarded Singapore Film Commission Grant
Six feature-length film projects from Southeast Asia - three from Vietnam and one each from Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines - have been awarded the second cycle of the Southeast Asia...
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ShoutOUT! Singapore's Momo Film Co. Launches Short Film Distribution Grant...
Aiming to address current gaps in the short film distribution landscape for Southeast Asian works, Singapore film company Momo Film Co will be launching the Momo Distribution Grant in partnership with...
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ShoutOUT! SGIFF Development Grants Opens for Application
'Aswang' by Alyx Ayn Arumpac was one of the recipients of the SEA-DOC grantThe Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) recently announced the relaunch of two grants. The Tan Ean Kiam Foundation -...
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Short Film Review: Southeast Asia Short Film Competition Programme 4
Unspoken tensions in the family, in particular across inter-generational relationships seem to feature frequently in the fourth selection of shorts under the 31st Singapore International Film Festival...
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Film Review: Ploy (2020)
This iteration of SGIFF witnesses the world premiere of one of its inaugural Film Fund recipients—Ploy by Thai visual artist and film director Prapat Jiwarangsan. The documentary is as much an...
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Myth-making through Documentary: An Interview with Alyx Ayn Arumpac
With Arumpac’s fierce dedication and restraint in presenting the grim realities of modern Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, it is hard to tell that Aswang is her debut documentary...
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A School Imagined: 'The Wandering' takes us on a wet ride
There is a lot a narrative film cannot achieve that a dance film can - a long hard gaze at physical space and dimension. The real star of The Wandering, a dance film co-directed by Yeo Siew Hua who...
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You and I, The Power of Humanity: An Interview with Fanny Chotimah
Recently awarded the Best Feature-length Documentary prize at the Festival Film Indonesia 2020, Fanny Chotimah's You and I also screened at the Singapore International Film Festival, was the closing...
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Short Film Review: An Act of Affection (2020)
Viet Vu’s An Act of Affection (2020), premiered at the 2020 Locarno Film Festival, and follows Vu as he captures the life of a single gay man from Lisbon, credited as Mr Ghislain. The film, a whole 16...
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You and I, Kekuatan Kemanusiaan: Sebuah Wawancara Bersama Fanny Chotimah
"You and I" baru saja menerima penghargaan sebagai film dokumenter berdurasi panjang terbaik di Festival Film Indonesia 2020. Film dokumenter yang disutradarai oleh Fanny Chotimah ini juga diputar di...
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