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STOP10: Nyanyian Akar Rumput (The Songs of Grassroots) by Yuda Kurniawan
Nyanyian Akar Rumput (The Songs of Grassroots) is a 2018 documentary that recently premiered at the Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival. The film directed by Yuda Kurniawan sheds light on the human rights...
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Review: Dayan (2018)
Can a film be made to bear the weight of history? That seems to be the question that director Behrouz Nooranipour is investigating, following his one-two punch of A157, his 2015 documentary feature and...
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Ten Minutes with Luna Kwok
It's a slightly grey day in early December. We are gathered here today for the Swarovski Inspiring Woman in Film Award Welcome Reception, it is almost four and the energy in the room is oscillating...
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Nervous No More: An Interview with Sammi Cheng
It was almost 13 years ago, in 2005’s Everlasting Regret that auteur Stanley Kwan last worked with superstar Sammi Cheng and it seems most apt that they would choose to work together again to mark what...
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Rithy Panh: “We now live in very dangerous times.”
Here to receive the Honorary Award from the 29th SGIFF, the French-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh is arguably one of the most celebrated documentarian alive today and the most well-known Cambodian...
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Stanley Kwan has 8 words for filmmakers out there
Stanley Kwan is a name that is associated with some of the most iconic images of Hong Kong cinema. His back catalogue of films – among them Women, Rouge, Actress, Hold You Tight, Lanyu, Everlasting...
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Review: The Third Wife (2018)
It is hard to fathom the 19th Century universe of a Vietnamese village that Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife inhabits. It is one that imprisons women with its strict social and behavioural code of conduct,...
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Review: Kampung Tapir (2018)
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ShoutOUT! Singapore International Film Festival partners *SCAPE for National...
The National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) 2019 is here again and brings with it a familiar face. The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) has come onboard as the organiser, cementing NYFA’s status...
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Review: Born Beautiful (2019)
As a sequel to Jun Robles Lana’s successful Die Beautiful (2016), Born Beautiful (2019) is an endearing continuation to Lana’s film. Directed by one of the prequel’s producers, Perci Intalan, Born...
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An interview with Kelvin Kyung Kun Park on 'Army'
For many, growing up means finding a job or starting a family. However, for many Singaporean males, growing up means shaving your head and joining the fellows to carry arms and serve. National Service...
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ShoutOUT! Make a film about Soaring Prices and Stagnant Wages and get a grant...
The 17th edition of Malaysia’s leading international human rights documentary film festival, ‘FreedomFilmFest’ (FFF) will take place in the Klang Valley between 20th – 28th September 2019 and will...
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Building 'Kingdom': An Interview with Tan Wei Keong
After its world premiere at the 2018 Singapore International Film Festival, Tan Wei Keong’s animated short Kingdom travelled to the 2019 Berlinale. In Kingdom, a man wanders into a forest. Alone, he...
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Review: Một Khu Đất Tốt // Blessed Land (2019)
The wind howls and the land morphs in Pham Ngoc Lan’s short film, Mot Khu Dat Tot (“Blessed Land”). Receiving its world premiere at the Berlinale this year, the Vietnamese short follows a mother and...
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Review: Last Night I Saw You Smiling (2019)
Constructed a decade after Cambodia’s independence, the Municipal Apartments, known more fittingly as the White Building, became one of the most iconic works of New Khmer architecture in Phnom Penh....
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A Portrait of Masculinity in Manila is Full of Men Named Boy (2018)
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy depicts the situation in the Philippines in 2009 during a sensitive time when local terror attacks had been taking place. The movie focuses on an estranged son...
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Review: BNK48 Girls Don't Cry (2018)
Cherpang, captain of BNK48High school was difficult. It was a time to get noticed, when everybody else wanted to get noticed. That small window of time in your life when acne breakouts meant the end...
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ShoutOUT! Don't miss these workshops @ National Youth Film Awards Conference
The annual National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) Conference in Singapore is back again this year, bigger and better with an exciting line-up, from 29 to 31 March, at *SCAPE. Bringing together local and...
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'光' Guang': Director Quek Shio Chuan shares his own story
Be kind, Be Guang!Guang, by filmmaker Quek Shio Chuan, starring actors Kyo Chen and Ernest Chong, is a film about an autistic man and his relationship with his brother who is feeling the burden of...
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Rojak Romance: The Future of Their Pasts
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