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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Sin Sai Hong

    A glimpse behind the scenes of the Sin Sai Hong opera group in Singapore. Aside by the maker of the more excessive 881.
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  • Lucky 7

    It was a favourite game of the Surrealists: the cadavre exquis. You draw or write something on a piece of paper, fold it up and…
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  • 881

    Two girlfriends attempt the impossible. They may not have the right talent, but they still want to be Getai stars; shining in this traditional Chinese
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  • Grandma

    All pitfalls of sentimentality are avoided in this portrait of a family by grandmother’s deathbed.
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  • The Call Home

    The world of immigrant workers in Singapore through the eyes of Kasi, an impressionable Indian building labourer.
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  • Disappearing Landscape

    Three modern stories about migration. Not the easiest film of the festival, but the cleverest. The filmmaker, a Serbian artist who teaches in Singapor
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  • Jalan Jati (Teak Road)

    Teak-cut drawings tell the story of colonial teak plantations. About DNA-sampling a tree and a historic marital bed (also teak).
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  • The Cloud of Unknowing

    Eight inhabitants of a dilapidated tower block have a spiritual encounter with a cloud. More easy to understand through the senses than rationally.
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  • A Land Imagined

    When a Chinese building worker disappears without trace in Singapore, an overtired detective is called in to find out what happened.
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  • Letters from the South

    An omnibus film about how immigrant Chinese in Southeast Asia cling to their traditional customs, language and habits – even after centuries in a diff
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