Second Southeast Asian Film Festival
dal 1/3/2012 al 30/3/2012
Segnalato da
1/3/2012
Second Southeast Asian Film Festival
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
20 challenging works by filmmakers from the region, 19 of which are Singapore premieres
The Festival is one of the largest dedicated offering of Southeast Asian films, showcasing 20 challenging works by filmmakers from the region, 19 of which are Singapore premieres. This year's Festival will see the inclusion of Myanmar for the first time, alongside films from Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam, amongst others. Organised by SAM, the Southeast Asian Film Festival 2012 is curated together with prominent film curator and critic Philip Cheah as well as veteran arts administrator Teo Swee Leng. Featuring Southeast Asian films produced within the last two years (18 created in 2011, two in 2010), the Festival is a timely showcase of the new wave of Southeast Asian cinema. The selection of films reflect and bring to the forefront a range of pertinent issues facing the region through the medium of the moving image. Many of the 20 films are also being shown outside their home country for the first time. Opening with the gritty and fantastical Fable of the Fish by up-and-coming, young screenwriter-turned-director Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr., the Festival will once again bring together works by key and rising directors in the region.