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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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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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Short film review: Retrace
Set in the rural district Quế Phong of Nghệ An province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, Retrace follows a boy named Xu with his father returning to their hometown due to the recent...
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2021 Vietnamese short films — Part 2: Problematising transgeographical...
Born to a Vietnamese mother and a German father, Julia Diệp My Feige writes and directs YẾN to tell the story of a woman in her early twenties navigating, seemingly with a nonchalant attitude, around...
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2021 Vietnamese short films — Part 1: Commanding the filmic form
2021 was a thrilling year for Vietnam’s cinema, from international acclaims such as Bùi Kim Quy's Memoryland receiving positive reviews at Busan International Film Festival,[1] Lê Bảo’s Taste bringing...
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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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