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Vote for your favourite film of the Singapore International Film Festival and get to watch it again on the closing day.

This year’s Singapore International Film Festival will introduce an Audience Choice Award so that members of the audience can vote for their favourite film, with a chance to watch it again.

Singapore’s newest arts venue, National Gallery Singapore, set to open its doors next month, will be among the theatres screening festival films.

And to ease the squeeze, evening screenings will be spaced further apart, giving festivalgoers more time to commute between venues.

Festival director Zhang Wenjie says the scheduling tweak “gives people a chance to grab a bite, so they don’t have to rush from venue to venue”.

Last year saw the revival of the festival after a three-year hiatus and, with it, a new acronym, SGIFF (it was formerly known as SIFF).

Mr Zhang says that judging from audience feedback, it was a hit, requiring only minor tweaks.

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