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A Brave New Old World: An Interview with SeaShorts Winner Ostin Fam
Ostin Fam (centre) in action, well behind the actionBinh the short film is named after the brother of the film's director Ostin Fam, whose Vietnamese name is Dũng and has a little story to tell behind...
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Husband. Wife. Daughter. Stranger. Who do you trust? : an Interview with Riri...
DINA (36) is a woman who lives in fear. She ran away from her abusive husband, GION (45) and now lives in Bali with their teenaged daughter, LAURA (17). Dina’s fear of Gion leads her to become...
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Paranoia, Siapa yang Kamu Percaya? : Sebuah Interview bersama Riri Riza
DINA (36) adalah seorang wanita yang hidup dalam ketakutan. Dia melarikan diri dari suaminya yang kasar, GION (45) dan sekarang tinggal di Bali bersama putri remaja mereka, LAURA (17). Ketakutan Dina...
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OP-ED: Arts As Resistance Against the Looming Spectre of Totalitarianism
Still from Taste (2021). Life is a football match!What is happening in/to Vietnam cinema? Why do we keep talking about censorship when we talk about Vietnamese cinema? Is it because Vietnamese...
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Short Film Review: Squish!
Style and substance exist on two ends of a see saw. With every film I watch, almost always will I notice one triumphing over the other. Some filmmakers cast a hard light on social issues, while others...
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Strangeness and Charms: Jeremy Chua on 'Still Somehow, It’s Illusions We Recall'
Presented by the Singapore Art Museum in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition, The Gift, curated by Dr. June Yap, Still Somehow, It’s Illusions We Recall is a film programme that draws upon the...
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Film Review: The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)
Cinema has always been a medium in dialogue with the present. Seismic real world events have shaped its form and function throughout history, if not for World War 2 we would not have the grit of...
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ShoutOUT! SGIFF in its 32nd edition with brand new sections and perspectives
Opening film ‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’A champion of Southeast Asian independent cinema, the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) returns for its 32 nd edition in theatres-only...
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A Little Bit More Me: Catching up with Tan Chui Mui
Saturday. Three days after Barbarian Invasion’s Malaysian premiere at the Lotus Five Star Coliseum Theatre, I sat down and interviewed Mui who was fresh after a birthday lunch with friends. She...
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Film Review: On The Job: The Missing 8
I don’t intend to beat around the bush. On the Job: The Missing 8, while well-intentioned to highlight the insidious operations of corruption plaguing the Philippine government, is a formulaic neo-noir...
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Film Review: 24 (2021)
24 opens with a flash bang. Two men are furiously making love. Their palpitating bodies match the rhythmic pounding of the soundtrack. A sound recordist with a boom pole steps out of the shadows. As...
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ShoutOUT! Filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua conferred with Young Artist Award
Singapore - Film director and writer Yeo Siew Hua, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival 2018 with his sophomore feature A Land Imagined, has been conferred the Young Artist Award by...
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Film Review: Barbarian Invasion | 野蛮人入侵 (2021)
There is a joke, or multiple jokes, lurking out there about writers writing about writing, a perennial format that sprouted “practically like a sub-genre,” as writer David Laskin noted in an essay for...
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Hà Lệ Diễm: “Văn hoá là da thịt bên ngoài làm nên bộ phim."
Những đứa trẻ trong sương là phim dài đầu tiên của Hà Lệ Diễm. Cái tên này đã và đang xuất hiện trên khắp các liên hoan phim thế giới từ cuối năm 2021 và giành được nhiều giải thưởng xuất sắc. Bộ phim...
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Hà Lệ Diễm: "Culture is the outer flesh that makes up a film."
Vietnamese filmmaker Hà Lệ Diễm's debut feature Children of the Mist is a name that has been popping up in the festival circuits and clinching awards since late 2021. Taking place in the town of Sapa...
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General Inquiries, June 2022: "What is happening in Singapore cinema today?"
General Inquiries is a new monthly column, published hopefully every last day of the month, by SINdie editor Alfonse Chiu that asks questions about the state of contemporary Southeast Asian cinema,...
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General Inquiries, July 2022: "What is happening in Malaysian cinema today?"
General Inquiries is a new monthly column, published hopefully every last day of the month, by SINdie editor Alfonse Chiu that asks questions about the state of contemporary Southeast Asian cinema,...
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