22nd Singapore International Film Festival, 14th-25th April 2009
By Charmaine Yap The annual Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), is back with it's 22nd Edition from 14th April to 25th...
REVIEWS
The Leap Years
By Cheng Xiaoan The local film industry has a general unspoken segregation between mainstream English language and Mandarin films - the...
A Month of Hungry Ghosts
More Than Just A Dead Month Snigger, roll your eyes, or be held in horror. By Tay Huizhen As the familiar...
A State of Mind – A Review by Amy Tan
Following Director Daniel Gordon's 2002 award-winning documentary The Game of Their Lives, Gordon's independent production company, VeryMuchSo productions was granted permission...
The Olive Depression – A Review by Mathias Ortmann
The Olive Depression is every bit your satire template in the mold of that memorable Zo Gang ridicule of Singaporean films....
Love Conquers All
Looking at the title, one might think that the film is one that will embrace the nobility of love and how...
Apa Khabar Orang Kampung
Translated to English, Apa Khabar Orang Kampung (AKOK for short) means, How Are You, Villagers? It is a multi-perspective documentary that...
Waiting for Love
Three couples; three different versions of love. What is your idea of love? What do you feel when your boy/girlfriend asks...
Things We Do When We Fall in Love
This second film by Director James Lee once again provides a good sense of reality. As the title clearly explains, it...
Before We Fall in Love Again
The plot and aesthetics of Before We Fall In Love Again, the first of the three films that will be shown...
Flower in the Pocket
On the surface, Flower in the Pocket foregrounds a poor dysfunctional Chinese family of a father (Sui) and his two boys...
Film Review: ‘Passabe’
A man shares his spine-tingling experience of escaping a gruesome massacre while he recounts his route down the slope into the...