Continue reading →Made with love and warmth, this documentary with re-enactments tells us more about Singapore’s education history through the legacy of a Catholic missionary Chinese girls’ school.
Tag / Singapore
Songs We Sang, The (2015)
Continue reading →This ‘xinyao’ music documentary is full of warmth and socio-cultural insight in what is a confident feature debut for Eva Tang.
12 Storeys (1997)
Continue reading →Possibly the quintessential ‘90s movie from Singapore that balances its arthouse preoccupations with strategic mainstream appeal in what remains to be Eric Khoo’s defining work.
Be with Me (2005)
Continue reading →Khoo’s work here is oddly affective, finding the poetic in the mundane as stories of love and solitude come together in elliptical fashion.
Ramen Teh (2018)
Food and memory (re)connect in uncommonly emotional ways in this measured, heartfelt and very accessible work by Eric Khoo.
Mee Pok Man (1995)
An invigorating feature debut that is raw and bold, if not particularly well-paced, but it almost singularly put Singapore back on the filmmaking map in the mid-1990s.
In the Room (2015)
At best a misguided attempt at interweaving disparate tales in one film, at worst a huge misfire from one of Singapore’s most celebrated filmmakers.
7 Letters (2015)
Continue reading →An omnibus showcase that very much confirms what we have suspected – Singapore cinema is on another wave of triumph, and this time it shall not decline.
Land Imagined, A (2018)
Continue reading →Writer-director Yeo Siew Hua manages to find a beguiling balance between social realism and the hallucinatory in this promising Locarno Golden Leopard winner.
Eternality Tan 