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Short Film Review: Men without Women Looking for BananaFish, Girl Without Cat...
It’s a rather absurd opening. A man speaks to a dead fish in a cage. He offers it water and a banana. He talks about his breakup. But look a little carefully: in this shot, it’s him who looks caged...
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Film Review: Money Has Four Legs (2020)
Screened at the 25th Busan International Film Festival 2020 and coming soon to the Locarno International Film Festival 2021, Money Has Four Legs spotlights the good, the bad, and the ugly of Burmese...
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Short Film Review: Graceland (2006)
The night is young and the King of Rock and Roll is riding shotgun in your BMW. You finish your cigarette and blaze down, down the highway, into the woods. Where to? The King is asking, but you have...
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Reel Life Stories: Saw Tiong Guan on 'Life in 24 Frames a Second'
John Woo offers pre-Hollywood stories of his lifeMalaysian filmmaker Saw Tiong Guan’s recent documentary project reveals a bigger agenda beyond telling stories - a personal social mission. With his...
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ShoutOUT! Animation works dominate student works in this year's National...
To Kill the Birds and The BeesFor the first time since its inception, animation films and filmmakers from the student category received the most awards from Best Art Direction to Best Screenplay, Best...
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Short Film Review: Somleng Reatrey (Sound of the Night) (2021)
Tok. Tok tok, tok. Tok, tok, tok, tok. A series of rhythmic acoustic beats opens Somleng Reatre, easing viewers into an eerily quiet night of a deserted Phnom Penh neighbourhood. The streets are lined...
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Short Film Review: Les Attendants (2021)
“What’s your name?” an old man asks his cruising partner. They are both undressed. He packs up his mat; the same mat where they lay entangled minutes before; with the same wrinkled hands that, not...
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Review: Hail Driver! // Prebet Sapu (2020)
Newlywed couple Muzzamer Rahman & Bebbra Mailin’s debut film together Hail, Driver! (Prebet Sapu) tells the tale of Aman (played by Amerul Affendi), a man who after the demise of his father decides...
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Film Review: Tenement 66 (2021)
Director Rae Red’s Tenement 66 is a psychological thriller filled with crimes, lies, deceit, and good old-fashioned moral quandaries.Starring Francis Magundayao as Teban, a troubled teenager who moves...
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Film Imitates Art in 'Abstractions' featuring 6 Singapore experimental...
Abstractions: Filmic Readings of the Something New Must Turn Up Exhibition was a newly commissioned film anthology that closed the recent Painting with Light International Festival of Film on Art by...
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Film Review: Whether the Weather Is Fine | Kun Maupay Man It Panahon (2021)
There is something insidious about what trauma does to you from the inside out. Unlike the tidal wave of acute physical harm—the pain, the blood, the immediacy—that presses you into a primal mode for...
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Short Film Review: Sound of the Night | Somleng Reatrey (2021)
Tok. Tok tok, tok. Tok, tok, tok, tok. A series of rhythmic acoustic beats opens Somleng Reatre, easing viewers into an eerily quiet night of a deserted Phnom Penh neighbourhood. The streets are lined...
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ShoutOUT! Docs By The Sea holds its first virtual documentary lab and...
When we could still gather.....Docs by the Sea in 2018In 2020, Docs By The Sea has successfully held its first virtual documentary lab and pitching forum, presenting 86 filmmakers, 37 documentary film...
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Film Review: Ali and Ratu Ratu Queens (2021)
Loud garish neon headlines that signify a clear sign. CHANGE IS COMING SOON.Iqbaal Ramadhan stars as our titular character Ali, a seventeen year old Indonesian youth who has just lost his father. Cast...
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Cast blinded for 12 hours in sound film 'Age of Revelation'《末。时代》
Commissioned as part of the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre's (SCCC) Cultural Extravaganza 2021, Age of Revelation 《末。时代》is another sound film that brings together SAthecollective and some of the...
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ShoutOUT! Migrant worker Madhavan releases second short film 'Painful Path'
You may remember our review of $alary Day, a short film made by migrant worker Madhavan R in 2020. Released during the height of the dormitory lockdown in Singapore in 2020 during the pandemic, $alary...
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ShoutOUT! Cathay Cinehome - Now Delivering the Best Filipino Movies On-Demand
Still from Block Z (2020)Cathay Cinehome is partnering with ABS-CBN Australia Pty. Ltd., a subsidiary of leading Filipino media and entertainment network ABS-CBN Corporation that serves international...
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Short Film Review: Yi Yi (Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays) (2021)
Yi Yi, directed by Giselle Lin, follows a mother’s process of grieving for her late son. The simplicity of the film complements the complexity of emotions hidden just beneath the surface. The simple...
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Film Review: White Building | ប៊ូឌីញ ស (2021)
Despite the ugliness of loss, one can almost always find something beautiful about sorrow too. In its cruelties, the wandering mind draws upon the tropes of pain and conjures pleasures to accompany...
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Docs By The Sea Accelerator 2021: 'My Sister Umi Aci' and 'I am Walking'...
Still from the project that won the Docs by the Sea pitch prize 'My Sister Umi Aci'Docs By The Sea Accelerator 2021: Digital Edition officially ended on Saturday, 4th September 2021. The fifth edition...
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