A woman moves from China to Singapore in the hope of starting a career as an actress. For now she doesn’t make it any further than selling tickets in an old cinema. It’s a good place to dream about a life as a film star. Here, the film maker makes her dreams come true. Screened before To Walk Beside You.
Also in this combined programme
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Contre-jour
Dana Linssen wrote about this work in de Filmkrant: ‘A film that wants to make us experience nothing else but Light! Light! Light! and life… -
Little Red Hoodie
Disquieting modern adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, about two precocious girls, a TV set, a grandmother and a wolf. Bizarre and chilling.Screened -
Sensibel
Experimental film with animated photos showing sound and vibrations. On the impossibility of silence, from no-man’s-land to Rotterdam.Screened before -
La promesse
Shot during a Swiss fantasy festival with a cigarette in one hand and the camera in the other. Pure DIY.Screened before At the Very Bottom… -
Coney Island Baby
Uplifting story about two elderly ladies, a cowboy and an oven containing a wad of money. The protagonist is Coney Island.Screened before Entrenamient -
Luigi indelicato
Extremely controlled, gripping Mafia film that compresses every other full-length film on this subject into fifteen minutes.Screened before Down Terra -
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Sutrapeze
And unusual choreography in ordinary surroundings, brought to the screen in a meticulous way.Screened before Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba. -
Focal Point
Old photographer gets himself in trouble with his magic camera. His photographs reveal the true partner, but can this magic be influenced?Screened bef
Film details
- Country of production
- Singapore
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP
