The festival will screen 146 films from 51 countries, and will honour Mohsen Makhmalbaf (pictured) with a five-film tribute.
Singapore International Film Festival (Nov 26 - Dec 6) has unveiled the full line-up for its 26th edition, comprising 146 films from 51 countries across 11 sections.
The festival will open with the international premiere of Cheng Yu-chieh and Lekal Sumi’s Panay and for the first time will do without a closing film.
The winner of the newly created audience choice award as well as the best film from the Silver Screen Awards will have repeat screenings on the last day of the festival instead.
‘We’re ending the festival in a different way, celebrating with two winning films,’ said Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi, who splits the programming duties with festival director Zhang Wenjie.
A total of 10 Asian films will vye for the Silver Screen Awards. They are:
Black Hen, Min Bahadur BhamDirty Romance, Lee Sang-wooThe Fourth Direction, Gurvinder SinghHappy...
Singapore International Film Festival (Nov 26 - Dec 6) has unveiled the full line-up for its 26th edition, comprising 146 films from 51 countries across 11 sections.
The festival will open with the international premiere of Cheng Yu-chieh and Lekal Sumi’s Panay and for the first time will do without a closing film.
The winner of the newly created audience choice award as well as the best film from the Silver Screen Awards will have repeat screenings on the last day of the festival instead.
‘We’re ending the festival in a different way, celebrating with two winning films,’ said Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi, who splits the programming duties with festival director Zhang Wenjie.
A total of 10 Asian films will vye for the Silver Screen Awards. They are:
Black Hen, Min Bahadur BhamDirty Romance, Lee Sang-wooThe Fourth Direction, Gurvinder SinghHappy...
- 10/20/2015
- ScreenDaily
The 26th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) is set to pay tribute to Iranian filmmaker in exile Mohsen Makhmalbaf with a retrospective and an honorary award.
Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi, said; “Makhmalbaf’s films have been a regular feature in the history of Sgiff, with Gabbeh opening the festival in 1997, and Kandahar in 2002.
“His unyielding efforts in conveying the untold stories of a region through film, in honest and profound ways, are unmatched.
“We celebrate and pay tribute to his perseverance, fervour and conviction as both artist and advocate, and strongly believe that he will inspire future generations of filmmakers to continue telling our Asian story.”
The critically acclaimed auteur has produced more than 20 works since 1983, examining themes around social and political circumstances.
Sgiff’s special showcase will include his latest feature The President (2014) as well as other award-winning films such as The Cyclist (1987), Salaam Cinema (1994), Gabbeh (1995) and A Moment of Innocence (1995).
Makhmalbaf will give a...
Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi, said; “Makhmalbaf’s films have been a regular feature in the history of Sgiff, with Gabbeh opening the festival in 1997, and Kandahar in 2002.
“His unyielding efforts in conveying the untold stories of a region through film, in honest and profound ways, are unmatched.
“We celebrate and pay tribute to his perseverance, fervour and conviction as both artist and advocate, and strongly believe that he will inspire future generations of filmmakers to continue telling our Asian story.”
The critically acclaimed auteur has produced more than 20 works since 1983, examining themes around social and political circumstances.
Sgiff’s special showcase will include his latest feature The President (2014) as well as other award-winning films such as The Cyclist (1987), Salaam Cinema (1994), Gabbeh (1995) and A Moment of Innocence (1995).
Makhmalbaf will give a...
- 10/1/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
'Stick to what you know' is theoretically sound advice that's launched many a promising career, but it's just as often led to aspiring writer/directors crowbarring the familiar in where it doesn't belong. Cheng Yu-Chieh's 2005 debut Do Over expended far too much effort working a mish-mash of garbled sub-plots and disparate visual styles around the central story of a director shooting a film he didn't believe in, and while the production values were fantastic the result was a pretentious mess that failed to make any lasting impact.
For his second feature, Yang Yang, Cheng brings back his most promising cast member - French-Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna, impressive in last year's winningly sweet little drama Miao Miao. The plot centres around Yang Yang, a Eurasian girl (like Pinna, half-French) struggling to balance her responsibilities to her new step-family with her inner conflict over her mixed parentage.
The tighter focus and...
For his second feature, Yang Yang, Cheng brings back his most promising cast member - French-Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna, impressive in last year's winningly sweet little drama Miao Miao. The plot centres around Yang Yang, a Eurasian girl (like Pinna, half-French) struggling to balance her responsibilities to her new step-family with her inner conflict over her mixed parentage.
The tighter focus and...
- 12/19/2009
- Screen Anarchy
'Beautiful Strange' might be more apt. Little-known outside his home territory, director Chi Y. Lee's third film about the tangled relationships between three Taiwanese schoolgirls is the epitome of many an arthouse cliché (not to mention yet another entry in the country's very own sub-genre), and it never really does anything with the premise that comes off as truly startling or unexpected. But it is fantastically shot and scored, not to mention surprisingly heartfelt, even with its loose, hallucinatory structure and pacing.
There's Angel, Xiao-Bu and Ah Mi; one the extrovert, acting out in denial of her home life, the tiny, rundown flat she shares with her morbidly obese father; another the sensitive, concerned about her friends, wondering where their relationship is headed and the third the shy girl, tortured by her inability to reach out over what each of them is going through.
The narrative is a tenuous...
There's Angel, Xiao-Bu and Ah Mi; one the extrovert, acting out in denial of her home life, the tiny, rundown flat she shares with her morbidly obese father; another the sensitive, concerned about her friends, wondering where their relationship is headed and the third the shy girl, tortured by her inability to reach out over what each of them is going through.
The narrative is a tenuous...
- 12/13/2009
- Screen Anarchy
London Children's Film Festival, London
Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over the festival's two weekends, which also include a play-along musical session to two Buster Keaton classics. Adult fans will be dribbling with excitement at the UK premiere of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, and there are scores of international features and retro TV treats.
Barbican, Sat to 29 Nov, visit lcff.org.uk
Andrea Hubert
German Film Festival, London
Modern German cinema continues to capture the same spirit of innovation pioneered by 1970s trailblazers Fassbinder and Herzog, with films such as The Lives Of Others gaining a swathe of international awards. And the subject matters at hand...
Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over the festival's two weekends, which also include a play-along musical session to two Buster Keaton classics. Adult fans will be dribbling with excitement at the UK premiere of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, and there are scores of international features and retro TV treats.
Barbican, Sat to 29 Nov, visit lcff.org.uk
Andrea Hubert
German Film Festival, London
Modern German cinema continues to capture the same spirit of innovation pioneered by 1970s trailblazers Fassbinder and Herzog, with films such as The Lives Of Others gaining a swathe of international awards. And the subject matters at hand...
- 11/21/2009
- by Andrea Hubert, Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
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