Tan Pin Pin

China’s booming animation industry has reached us. The film in question is Shuo Feng — Po Zhen Zi, an action epic directed by Zheng Wu and based on an internet novel by A Nu. From what we understand, the film is set in the eighth century, during China’s Tang dynasty. The story draws inspiration from real historical battles, which pitted Chinese forces against the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate and Tibetan Empire in Central Asia. Watch the hyper-kinetic, elaborately composited trailer below:

Ng Meixi returns to Singapore having spent time in Mexico working with low-performing students. She joins a local school as a relief teacher but takes on a mammoth task: to pilot a new pedagogy to help students in the Normal (Technical) stream learn better. She reconfigures the classroom from a teacher-directed one to a community that aims to empower students as learners and tutors to each other. Will this work in Singapore’s result-oriented education system?

From Crazy Rich Asians (2018) to 12 Storeys (1997) to Sumpah Pontianak (The Curse of Pontianak) (1957), Singapore’s film industry is a diverse one and its evolution is nothing short of colourful. Recollecting Singapore’s famed studios in the 1950s to uncovering new waves of filmmakers in 90s and into today’s digital revolution, Singapore Cinema: Between Takes provides an insight into the rich history, and culture of Singapore films and its industry through candid reflections of filmmakers and content creators.

Between the opening and sealing of two time capsules in Singapore lives a city in limbo, visited by its own past, present and future.

사랑, 정체성, 가족간의 유대 등을 다룬 정서적인 이야기 모음집. 싱가포르의 걸출한 영화감독 7명의 단편을 엮은 세븐 레터스는 개인적이고 가슴 아픈 면면을 포착하는 동시에 싱가포르 독립 50년에 바치는 헌사이기도 하다. (2015년 20회 부산국제영화제)

Tan Pin Pin employs a strictly external perspective for this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, interviewing political exiles in London, Thailand and Malaysia, who are to this day unable to return home.

Tan Pin Pin employs a strictly external perspective for this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, interviewing political exiles in London, Thailand and Malaysia, who are to this day unable to return home.

Tan Pin Pin employs a strictly external perspective for this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, interviewing political exiles in London, Thailand and Malaysia, who are to this day unable to return home.

The Impossibility of Knowing documents Tan Pin Pin's attempt to capture the aura of spaces in Singapore that have experienced trauma.

En is an 18-year-old who has lost his father to cancer. As his family is drawn together in a sudden tragedy, he has to decide what he believes in. But in a country where ideologies are forged on constantly shifting sands, he struggles to stay true to what he knows to be right. And in a family that prefers to forget, the sandcastles of all he holds dear seem doomed to be washed away by the tides of time.

부산은행펀드 지원 프로젝트. 싱가포르의 자화상인 <보이지 않는 도시>는 공간을 통해 싱가포르 내부 생활을 들여다 본다. 공적, 사적, 내부적, 외부적 공간들은 보통 사람들이 너무나 일상적이거나 너무나 변화하고 있다고 여기는 곳들이다. 하지만 그 곳에 거주하거나 그 장소를 사용하는 사람들에게는 역사와 인생의 의미로 가득하다. 이런 공간들을 방문하면 그 곳의 거주자들을 통해 어떻게 한 공간이 모르타르와 벽돌보다 더한 의미를 갖게 되고 평범한 것이 어떻게 깊은 의미를 갖게 되는지를 목격하게 된다. 다큐멘터리와 실험영화의 경계선에 놓인 이 영화는 도시 자체가 사적인 이야기들의 배경이 될 뿐만 아니라 그 자체가 주인공이 된다.

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.

The connections between three strangers living in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood are explored in this short film.

The Chew family is one of 55,000 Singapore families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives to a columbarium as the gravesite is needed for urban redevelopment. The picnic mood of the family outing to move the remains belies the sadness and confusion everyone feels.

The Chew family is one of 55,000 Singapore families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives to a columbarium as the gravesite is needed for urban redevelopment. The picnic mood of the family outing to move the remains belies the sadness and confusion everyone feels.