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Oldham , Theatre Oct – Nov 19 The Housemaid (1960) Image courtesy of © Korean Film Archive & Propaganda Alternative Graphics 2 October to November 3 Schedule

* The October–November schedule and programme line-up is correct at the time of print. MARK YOUR CALENDAR Any changes to the above will be updated and reflected on asianfilmarchive.org

2019 • NEW RELEASES • FACES OF THE KOREAN WOMAN October • SINGAPORE SHORTS ’19 • PERSPECTIVES

DATE TIME FILM RUNTIME VENUE PAGE

04, FRI 8PM • OFFICIAL SELECTION 1 73 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 12

05, SAT 4PM • OFFICIAL SELECTION 2 87 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 14 8PM • OFFICIAL SELECTION 3 80 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 16

06, SUN 2PM • SWEET DREAM + THE WIDOW 121 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 24 5PM • OFFICIAL SELECTION 4 74 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 18

09, WED 8PM • BOUND BY CHASTITY RULE 101 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 26

11, FRI 8PM • MOTHER 129 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 27

12, SAT 4PM • SO LONG, MY SON 185 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 7 8PM • THE VILLAINESS 129 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 28

13, SUN 2PM • POETRY 139 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 29 5PM • SO LONG, MY SON 185 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 7

16, WED 8PM • MADAME FREEDOM 125 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 30

18, FRI 8PM • THE HOUSEMAID 101 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 31

19, SAT 4PM • SO LONG, MY SON 185 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 7 8PM • A GOOD LAWYER’S WIFE 105 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 32

20, SUN 2PM • PAJU 110 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 33 5PM • SO LONG, MY SON 185 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 7

24 — 27 VARIOUS • PERSPECTIVES FILM FESTIVAL 2019 VARIOUS OLDHAM THEATRE 48

28, MON 4PM • SO LONG, MY SON 185 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 7

30, WED 8PM • SUDDENLY IN DARK NIGHT 95 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 34 4 October to November 5 Schedule

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2019 • NEW RELEASES • FACES OF THE KOREAN WOMAN November • 30TH SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

DATE TIME FILM RUNTIME VENUE PAGE

01, FRI 8PM • IODO 110 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 35

02, SAT 4PM • TEL AVIV ON FIRE 97 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 8 8PM • 115 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 36

03, SU N 2PM • TEL AVIV ON FIRE 97 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 8 5PM • MEMENTO MORI 98 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 37

06, WED 8PM • SPINNING THE TALES OF CRUELTY TOWARDS WOMEN 100 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 38

08, FRI 8PM • A SPLENDID OUTING 95 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 39

0 9, S AT 4PM • A PETAL 89 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 40 8PM • TEL AVIV ON FIRE 97 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 8

10, SUN 2PM • YEONG-JA'S HEYDAYS 103 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 41 5PM • TEL AVIV ON FIRE 97 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 8

13, WED 8PM • 112 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 42

15, FRI 8PM • ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE 101 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 43

16, SAT 4PM • NIGHT JOURNEY 76 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 44 8PM • MICROHABITAT 106 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 45

1 7, S U N 2PM • THE MURMURING 98 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 46 5PM • US, DAY BY DAY 85 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 47

20, WED 8PM • TEL AVIV ON FIRE 97 MIN OLDHAM THEATRE 8

23 — 30 VARIOUS • 30TH SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL VARIOUS OLDHAM THEATRE 50 6 October to November 7 New Releases New Releases So Long, My Son (2019)

Featuring critically-acclaimed and festival favorites, New Releases is dedicated to screening the best and most promising of contemporary Asian cinema.

The October new release for 2019 is the Southeast Asian premiere and exclusive first run of ’s epic family saga So Long, My Son, that follows the lives of two Chinese families over 30 years. The film picked up the Best Actress and Best Actor awards at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. SILVER BEAR (BEST ACTOR) SOUTHEAST ASIAN PREMIERE Berlin International Film Festival 2019 ORIGINAL TITLE Dì jiŭ tiān cháng 地久天长 SILVER BEAR (BEST ACTRESS) DIRECTED BY Wang Xiaoshuai Berlin International Film Festival 2019 In November, Tel Aviv on Fire, the dramedy by Sameh RUNTIME 185 min AUDIENCE AWARD COUNTRY China Zoabi will make its Singapore premiere. This unique Uruguay International Film Festival 2019 LANGUAGE Mandarin with English subtitles satire about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict clinched RATING PG the Best Actor award at the 2018 Venice International Film Festival under the Venice Horizons section. Synopsis In this epic saga spanning 30 years, a couple struggles to cope Schedule in a society of constant change. After their son’s death, Yaoyun and Liyun are haunted by memories of a once-happy household. DATE TIME To make a break, they move to a city where no one knows them, 12 OCT, SAT 4PM forming a new family with an adopted son. But this offers no comfort: lack of fluency in the local dialect isolates them, and 13 OCT, SUN 5PM their son rejects them as “foreigners.” When he disappears one 19 OCT, SAT 4PM day, the couple is forced to consider returning to the site of their 20 OCT, SUN 5PM lost hopes. Questioning the very possibility of family amidst China’s shift towards hyper-capitalism, the film reveals the deep 28 OCT, MON 4PM scars that lie beneath the nation’s success story. 8 October to November 9 New Releases

Tel Aviv on Fire (2018)

BEST FILM SINGAPORE PREMIERE Seattle International Film Festival 2019 תל אביב על האש ORIGINAL TITLE Tel Aviv Al Ha'Esh BEST ACTOR (Venice Horizons section) DIRECTED BY Sameh Zoabi & INTERFILM AWARD FOR PROMOTING INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE RUNTIME 97 min Venice International Film Festival 2018 COUNTRY Israel, Belgium, Luxembourg, France BEST SCREENPLAY LANGUAGE Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2018 RATING TBA ISRAELI FILM COMPETITION. BEST FILM Haifa International Film Festival 2018 Synopsis In this cultural satire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Salam is a lowly assistant on the titular Palestinian soap opera, which is Schedule set just before the 1967 Six-Day War and is a huge hit on both sides of the border. Hoping to win back his ex, Salam gets his DATE TIME lucky break when he impresses the show’s star and is promoted 02 NOV, SAT 4PM to writer. But while this renews his ex’s attention, it also draws Assi, an Israeli border guard who finds the show to be anti-Israeli 03 NOV, SUN 2PM schlock, but whose wife is a big fan. He blackmails Salam into 09 NOV, SAT 8PM “improving” its script, with surprising success—until Assi and 10 NOV, SUN 5PM the producers want to take the story in different directions. As the finale approaches, Salam has to devise a resolution that will 20 NOV, WED 8PM appease all sides. 10 October 11 Singapore Shorts ’19

SINGAPORE SHORTS is an annual showcase celebrating the best and the most promising local Singapore short films. A critical platform for excellence and diverse thought in moving images, the selection Shorts ’19 is overseen by a panel of respected professionals across Singapore’s .

This is an encore presentation of the 2019 programme, which had its first run in August. To accompany these screenings, the Asian Film Archive has published articles dedicated to selected works, written by local critics including renowned playwright Alfian Sa’at. They can be accessed at asianfilmarchive.org/category/sgshorts

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19 12 October 13 Singapore Shorts ’19 Official Ah Beng in Wonderland Bangla Selection 1

Schedule

TOTAL RUNTIME DATE TIME

73 MIN 4 OCT, FRI 8PM 2019 / DIRECTED BY Carla Castle / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Idette Chen / PRODUCED BY Carla Castle, Katherine Ang / RUNTIME 13.04 min / Nelia Phoon / RUNTIME 17.17 min / LANGUAGE English, LANGUAGE English / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 Mandarin, Bengali / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG

Ah Beng in Wonderland is an experimental comedy An injured migrant worker moonlights at a struggling about an Ah Beng whose life is somewhat controlled by a hawker stall in order to send more money home. Bangla sarcastic British Narrator. He runs away to Malaysia on an sheds light on how the local and foreigner communities e-scooter after finding out that his girlfriend is pregnant. co-exist in a transactional relationship.

SIN-SFO A Waking ORIGINAL TITLE 离思 Two Islands

2018 / DIRECTED BY Leon Cheo / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Clare Chong / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Nicole Lim Xuan / PRODUCED BY Bill Gardner, Leon Cheo / RUNTIME 11 min / LANGUAGE Natasha Soh / RUNTIME 16.36 min / LANGUAGE Syed Ebrahim Al-Idrus / RUNTIME 15.4min / LANGUAGE English / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 Mandarin / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 English, Mandarin / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG

As they drive to San Francisco, married couple Angie Xuan, a 16 year old girl, finds herself on an uneventful bus 28-year-old Kylie Woon feels displaced after years of living and Danny debate a decision which will change their tour in a foreign land. Wandering through the sleepless abroad. She embarks on a photography project to explore lives forever. town in the middle of the night, she meets the tour guide her ancestral home in Hainan and discovers her heritage and bus driver at a skewer stall where the two men take and identity. turns making advances on her. 14 October 15 Singapore Shorts ’19

Official Dance of A Humble Atheist Siblings ORIGINAL TITLE 后来 Selection 2

Schedule

TOTAL RUNTIME DATE TIME

87 MIN 5 OCT, SAT 4PM 2019 / DIRECTED BY Toh Hun Ping / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Tang Kang Sheng / PRODUCED BY Toh Hun Ping / RUNTIME 17.30min / LANGUAGE English Yeo Zhi Qi / RUNTIME 18.38min / LANGUAGE English, / SUBTITLES N.A / RATING PG Mandarin / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG

An existential journey of semi-abstract imagery inspired After their father is admitted to the hospital due to a by the artist’s personal ruminations on death, spiritual stroke, Jun and Ling return home to settle some of his faith, nature and the cosmos. affairs. Amidst it all, they are forced to deal with their strained relationship.

Club 555 You Idiot Beyond a Chamber that Externalises All The Time, or Séance

2018 / DIRECTED BY Chew Jia Hui / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Kris Ong / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Chong Lii, Milon Goh / PRODUCED Chen Hui Yi / RUNTIME 14.21 min / LANGUAGE Mandarin, Kris Ong / RUNTIME 11.04 min / LANGUAGE English BY Chong Lii, Milon Goh, Chong Yong / RUNTIME 27 min English / SUBTITLES Chinese, English / RATING NC16 / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 / LANGUAGE English / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13

Pretty ladies, pulsing lights, and electronic dance music Darren and Matt write a song about what is to come in Three characters grow restless in a city where the set the stage for the world of Thai disco in Singapore, their happy-go-lucky world. urban trappings of identity and history are idealised where partying the night away is a fulltime job for three of and left unquestioned. its inhabitants. 16 October 17 Singapore Shorts ’19

Official Trailer Boys Still ORIGINAL TITLE SUNYI Selection 3

Schedule

TOTAL RUNTIME DATE TIME

80 MIN 5 OCT, SAT 8PM 2018 / DIRECTED BY Yusri Shaggy Sapari / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Khidhir Kassim / PRODUCED BY Yusri Shaggy Sapari / RUNTIME 22.29 min / LANGUAGE Khidhir Kassim / RUNTIME 4 min / LANGUAGE Malay Malay, English / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 / SUBTITLES English, Malay / RATING PG

Trailer Boys explores the world of truck drivers through An elderly Malay woman has no discernible shortcomings, the Abam2 Trailer Singapura, a community of heavy except for a void in her life that viewers seem to inch vehicle drivers. closer to.

Chasing Paper ORIGINAL TITLE 临考 Flexier Than You Vios

2018 / DIRECTED BY Shoki Lin / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Zhiyi Cao / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Ler Jiyuan, Wendy Toh / PRODUCED Wan Murni / RUNTIME 16.39 min / LANGUAGE Mandarin, Zhiyi Cao / RUNTIME 17.56 min / LANGUAGE English BY Ler Jiyuan / RUNTIME 19.35 min / LANGUAGE English, English / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13 / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG Mandarin / SUBTITLES English, Chinese / RATING PG

A mother struggles with the boundaries of morality while Taking the rise of co-working spaces as a point of A short documentary that captures the last days of Vios’s trying to salvage her broken relationship with her daughter. departure, and through the voices of two thoroughly fight with terminal cancer and the filmmaker’s struggles of millennial figures, this project seeks to (dis)entangle the letting go. relations between creativity, competition and control. 18 October 19 Singapore Shorts ’19 Official A Dance for Ren Hang Religious Procession Selection 4

Schedule

TOTAL RUNTIME DATE TIME

74 MIN 6 OCT, SUN 5PM 2018 / DIRECTED BY Lei Yuan Bin / PRODUCED BY 2019 / DIRECTED BY Dave Lim / PRODUCED BY Elysa Wendi, Jeremy Chua / RUNTIME 9.25 min Dave Lim / RUNTIME 16 min / LANGUAGE English, / LANGUAGE No dialogue / RATING R21 Mandarin, Hokkien / SUBTITLES English / RATING PG13

Three dancers re-enact the best photographs by Chinese How can religious harmony be developed within photographer Ren Hang, who was well known for his increasingly fragmented societies? Looking at the shocking photographs bordering on taboo. public religious processions of Hinduism and Taoism, the film compares the trance, acts of penance and rituals practised.

Kingdom Bare Foul Ball Tenebrae

2018 / DIRECTED BY Tan Wei Keong / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Martin Loh / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Kayue Li / PRODUCED BY 2018 / DIRECTED BY Nicole Midori Woodford Tan Wei Keong / RUNTIME 5.17 min / LANGUAGE No Yi Jia Lee / RUNTIME 11 min / LANGUAGE English Nelia Phoon / RUNTIME 15.25 min / LANGUAGE / PRODUCED BY Fran Borgia / RUNTIME 16.05 min dialogue / RATING NC16 / SUBTITLES English / RATING M18 No Dialogue / RATING PG / LANGUAGE Mandarin / SUBTITLES English / RATING G

A lost man falls apart in a forest. In a surreal take on the documentary form, the film poses A determined boy attempts numerous rounds of base- A young girl and her mother are moving out before the questions about our treatment of naked bodies. running at a rundown baseball pitch, striving for a demolition of the historic Pearl Bank Apartments. The girl desired timing. takes the chance to explore the abandoned spaces before leaving forever. 20 October 21 Singapore Shorts ’19 Singapore Shorts ’19 Selection Panel

Kristin Saw has been with the Singapore Film Commission (SFC), part of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), since 2008. The SFC aims to nurture, support, promote Singapore talent in filmmaking, the production of Singapore films and a film industry in Singapore. Prior to joining the SFC, she was a programme manager at an independent contemporary arts centre in Singapore, The Substation, where she curated independent films and organised events for the local film community. Her interest in Singapore films began when she led a group, nuSTUDIOS Film Productions, at the National University of Singapore Aishah Abu Bakar was most recently a Programme Manager for the Singapore (NUS). She has been rooting for homegrown stories and talents ever since. International Film Festival (2015–2018), managing the Asian feature film section, as well as organising the masterclasses and talks. Prior to that, she was the Programme Manager for Moving Images at The Substation (2009–2014). She Sangjoon Lee is Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema at the Wee Kim Wee School was in charge of organizing film screenings and related events, such as the of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. Lee is the Singapore Short Film Awards, the Experimental Film Forum, Singapore Indie editor of Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (University of Doc Fest, and First Take, a regular running local platform for first time filmmakers. Michigan Press, 2015) and Rediscovering Korean Cinema (University of Michigan She had previously been a film traffic coordinator for 2007 and 2009 editions Press, 2019). His essays have appeared in Screen, Film History, Historical Journal of the Singapore International Film Festival and has had a hand in television of Film, Radio, and Television, Transnational Cinemas, and The Journal of Japanese productions for Mediacorp’s Channel NewsAsia and Suria. and Korean Cinema. Lee is the winner of the David H. Culbert IAMHIST-Routledge Prize for the Best Article by an Established Scholar (2019). His book The Asian Cinema Network: The Asian Film Festival, US Propaganda, and the Cultural Cold Pauline Soh has had over ten years of experience in the areas of film War in Asia will be published in fall 2020 (Cornell University Press). programming, production and archiving. She holds an MA in Contemporary Cinema Cultures from King’s College London and began her work in the field at the Asian Film Archive, where she developed its catalogue of films Thong Kay Wee is the Outreach Officer at the Asian Film Archive (AFA). He is at the Esplanade Library for public access. She is currently Senior Manager responsible for devising strategies to promote the rich film heritage of Singapore (Programmes) at the National Gallery Singapore, playing the role of film and Asia as part of the AFA’s mission. Since 2014, he has overseen over 30 programmer for the Gallery’s annual festival Painting with Light: Festival of different film-centric programmes for the archive, including the exhibition series International Films on Art that showcases over 30 feature-length and short films Celluloid Void: The Lost Films of Southeast Asia (2015–2016), Asian Restored as well as single-channel video works, and numerous special screenings in Classics (2016–2019) and producing for the cross-disciplinary showcase State conjunction with the Gallery’s exhibitions such as Reframing Modernism: Painting of Motion (2016–2019) under Singapore Art Week. He was also the curator for from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond and Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. Singular Screens, the international film programme presented under Singapore Pauline was also engaged as panel speaker at the Education Forum, 10th International Festival of the Arts (SIFA), in 2018 and 2019. He is heading the regular International Youth Film Festival and the Programmer Conference at the Japan film programming at Oldham Theatre, a cinema space at the National Archives of Foundation Asia Centre, 29th Tokyo International Film Festival. Singapore (NAS), since May 2019. 22 October to November 23 Faces of the Korean Woman

To commemorate 100 years of Korean cinema in 2019, the Asian Film Archive presents Faces of the Faces of the Korean Woman, a film programme that explores the multi-faceted portrayal of women throughout Korean Korean Woman film history from the 1930s to the 2010s. As the figure of the Korean woman moves through tumultuous periods of Korean history—from the Dynasty, to the Park Chung-hee era, up to the contemporary times of neoliberalism— we see various interpretations of girlhood and womanhood manifested on screen, albeit through a predominantly male-oriented lens. They oscillate between the virtuous and the vampish, the pitiful and the horrific, the subjugated and the fiercely independent.

Featuring historically important early classics, popular genre films and critically acclaimed works by iconic male and female Korean directors, the programme’s 24 female character-driven films offer a retrospective view on female representation in Korean cinema, and open up new perspectives through the restoration of their faces within the cinematic imaginary.

SUPPORTED BY THE KOREAN FILM ARCHIVE (KOFA) 24 October to November 25 Faces of the Korean Woman

Double Bill Sweet Dream (1936) Double Bill The Widow (1955)

THE FILM SWEET DREAM (1936) WILL PRECEDE ALTERNATIVE TITLE Lullaby of Death THE FILM SWEET DREAM (1936) WILL PRECEDE ALTERNATIVE TITLE Tears of a Widow THE SCREENING OF THE WIDOW (1955) THE SCREENING OF THE WIDOW (1955) ORIGINAL TITLE Mimong ORIGINAL TITLE Mimangin 미몽 미망인 THIS SCREENING IS FREE WITH REGISTRATION. DIRECTED BY Yang Ju-nam THIS SCREENING IS FREE WITH REGISTRATION. DIRECTED BY Park Nam-ok RUNTIME 46 min RUNTIME 75 min COUNTRY COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING TBA Restored Version Synopsis Synopsis The Widow is one of the most highly-regarded of 1950s Korean Uninterested in playing wife and mother, Ae-sun is seduced by films, and the only film by Korea’s first female director Park Nam- the promise of happiness supplied by Seoul’s consumer paradise. ok. The film centers on Shin-ja, a widow struggling to provide for In the city, she starts an affair with a rich businessman. Fed up her daughter after losing her husband in the Korean War. Family with her familial neglect, Ae-sun’s husband kicks her out. Ae-sun friend Seong-jin helps them stay afloat, but eventually falls for embraces her newfound freedom, but soon discovers there may Shin-ja. Though feeling indebted, Shin-ja resists his advances. be consequences to her behaviour. One of the earliest surviving Things get complicated when she falls for Taek instead, who Korean films, Sweet Dream reflects the anxieties of 1930s Korea happens to be the lover of Seong-jin’s jealous wife. Controversial Schedule toward the “New Woman,” advocating the continuation of her Schedule in its time for its relatively more nuanced depiction of women domestic confinement. Yet the film remains an important, early pursuing individual happiness, the film set a precedent in Korean DATE TIME attempt by Korean cinema to portray a woman’s struggle to define DATE TIME cinema for truer-to-life representations of modern womanhood. modern femininity for herself as she is caught between stifling Unfortunately, the film’s final scenes are lost and its ending 6 OCT, SUN 2PM 6 OCT, SUN 2PM tradition and the destabilising force of modernity. remains an eternal enigma. 26 October to November 27 Faces of the Korean Woman

Bound by Chastity Rule (1962) Mother (2009)

BEST FILM ALTERNATIVE TITLE The Memorial Gate for Virtuous Women BEST FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY SINGAPORE PREMIERE Daejong Film Awards & BEST ACTRESS (Korean ) 1963 ORIGINAL TITLE Yeolnyeomun 2010 ORIGINAL TITLE Madeo 열녀문 마더 DIRECTED BY Shin Sang-ok DIRECTED BY Bong Joon-ho BEST FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY RUNTIME 101 min & BEST ACTRESS RUNTIME 129 min Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2009 COUNTRY South Korea COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean, English with English subtitles BEST FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles & BEST ACTRESS RATING TBA Film Critics Awards 2009 RATING R21

Restored Version BEST FILM & BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Remastered Black & White Version 2009

BEST ACTRESS Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2009 Synopsis In the midst of Korea’s modernisation, Han is married off to an Synopsis adolescent noble. When he dies prematurely, his conservative Mother lives alone with her mentally-challenged son who is mother forces her to preserve her chastity for the family’s honour. accused as the prime suspect in a murder by sloppy cops eager Han’s situation worsens when she and a progressive farmhand to close the case. Mother hires a lawyer, but he proves just as develop feelings for each other. When Han becomes pregnant, incompetent. Betrayed by the system, she takes things into her the patriarch contains potential shame by isolating her until she own hands to clear her son’s name, even if it means breaking the Schedule delivers and the child together with the farmhand are banished Schedule law. After his hit monster-movie The Host (2006), director Bong from the city. Years later, Han cares for her ailing but still abusive turned to a different kind of monster: that iconic figure of Korean DATE TIME mother-in-law. Han’s child, now a man, arrives at the household DATE TIME cinema, the warm-hearted mother. Subverting this archetype, to see his mother. Will their shared oppression bind them, or will the film depicts Mother’s love as pathological. With little else of 9 OCT, WED 8PM 11 OCT, FRI 8PM they be torn from each other again? value in life, she is consumed by her role as mother. 28 October to November 29 Faces of the Korean Woman

The Villainess (2017) Poetry (2010)

BEST ACTRESS ORIGINAL TITLE Aknyeo GRAND PRIX (BEST FILM) & FIPRESCI PRIZE ORIGINAL TITLE Shi Chunsa Film Art Awards (Korean Film Directors’ 악녀 (International Film Critics’ Prize) 시 Society Awards) 2018 DIRECTED BY Jeong Byeong-gil Fribourg International Film Festival 2011 DIRECTED BY Lee Chang-dong

TECHNICAL AWARD RUNTIME 129 min BEST DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY RUNTIME 139 min Daejong Film Awards 2017 COUNTRY South Korea, Germany Asian Film Awards 2011 COUNTRY South Korea

TECHNICAL AWARD LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles BEST SCREENPLAY & ECUMENICAL JURY PRIZE LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles (for Stunt Work and Cinematography) RATING M18 (Violence) (Special Mention) RATING NC16 (Some Sexual Scenes) Busan Film Critics Awards 2017 Cannes Film Festival 2010

BEST TECHNICAL AWARD (for Stunt Work) BEST FILM, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST ACTRESS Blue Dragon Film Awards 2017 & BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Daejong Film Awards BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Korean Academy Awards) 2010 2017 Synopsis BEST DIRECTOR & BEST ACTRESS This Korean actioner is one of the few featuring a female Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2010 protagonist. Sook-hee is an assassin trained by criminals BEST ACTRESS Blue Dragon Film Awards 2010 from childhood. Bent on revenge for her father’s murder, she is Synopsis derailed by her husband/mentor’s slaying. Sook-hee slaughters Mija works as a maid for a gruff, stroke-ridden man while caring those responsible, is caught by authorities, and forced into an for her abandoned loutish grandson. Although her memory is all-female assassin school where she delivers and raises her deteriorating, Mija remains whimsically inquisitive and enrolls daughter. Upon graduation, she goes undercover as an actress. in a poetry class. She learns that her grandson was involved in When a man from the past emerges and another enters her a gang-rape and the girl killed herself. Mija is pressured by the Schedule present, Sook-hee’s two lives collide, revealing her a pawn on Schedule fathers of the other boys in the case to join them in bribing the both sides of the law. A unique neo-noir, its heroine’s contested girl’s mother to drop the charges. Instead, she does something DATE TIME identity functions as the site where hegemonic femininities DATE TIME unexpected. Poetry is an ode to the strength of elderly women, implode while she fights to free herself from the patriarchal often dismissed in Korea, and a condemnation of male violence 12 OCT, SAT 8PM 13 OCT, SUN 2PM structures governing her life. and those attempts to cover it up. 30 October to November 31 Faces of the Korean Woman

Madame Freedom (1956) The Housemaid (1960)

ORIGINAL TITLE Jayu buin ORIGINAL TITLE Hanyo 자유부인 하녀 DIRECTED BY Han Hyeong-mo DIRECTED BY Kim Ki-young RUNTIME 125 min RUNTIME 111 min COUNTRY South Korea COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean, English with English subtitles LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING PG (Some Scenes of Intimacy) Restored Version

Synopsis Synopsis This Korean cinema classic is a cunning satire of modern Exploiting Korea’s ambivalence towards modernization, this Korean values and aspirations. A nuclear family moves ’50s hit presents two parallel narratives. The “virtuous” husband into a two-storey house, appearing the epitome of middle- is engaged in a romantic dalliance but triumphantly maintains class triumph, but paying heavily to maintain this illusion. family honour while the wife is influenced by Western morals Dong-shik teaches music to poor workers and his pregnant and “decadent” consumerism, and is slated for eventual ruin and wife is a seamstress while caring for two children. To ease her Schedule repentance. However the film revels in its heroine’s journey. As Schedule workload, Dong-shik hires a housemaid. The adulterer husband, she finds employment and discovers a glitzy world of nightclubs manipulative wife and destructive housemaid create a complex DATE TIME and dancehalls, the film’s true response to tradition appears: DATE TIME thriller. The audience reactions to actress Lee Eun-shim in the “We need to be economically independent to avoid the tyranny title role were so hostile that producers were deterred from 16 OCT, WED 8PM 18 OCT, FRI 8PM of our husbands.” hiring her and her career ended prematurely. 32 October to November 33 Faces of the Korean Woman

A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003) Paju (2009)

GRAND PRIX (Best Film) ORIGINAL TITLE Baramnan Kajok APSA NETPAC DEVELOPMENT PRIZE SINGAPORE PREMIERE Deauville Asian Film Festival 2004 바람난 가족 (Prize for Outstanding Emerging Talent) DIRECTED BY Im Sang-soo Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) 2010 ORIGINAL TITLE 파주 BEST ACTRESS DIRECTED BY Park Chan-ok Daejong Film Awards (Korean RUNTIME 105 min JURY PRIZE Academy Awards) 2004 COUNTRY South Korea Deauville Asian Film Festival 2010 RUNTIME 110 min

BEST SCREENPLAY LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles NETPAC AWARD (Best Asian Feature Film) COUNTRY South Korea Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2003 RATING R21 (Sexual Scenes) International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles BEST ACTRESS & BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS RATING TBA Busan Film Critics Awards 2003

Synopsis Synopsis Ho-jung and her husband Yeong-jak have made a comfortable Paju is about the messy, moral ambiguity of modern life and the home with their adopted seven-year-old. However, their resulting estrangement one may feel with loved ones. Eun-mo Schedule marriage is shallow and passionless. They get involved in Schedule returns to Paju after a long absence and is evicted from her affairs but remain unfulfilled. The couple are forced to rethink apartment. She is reacquainted with her brother-in-law who she DATE TIME their lives when tragedy strikes. This incisive, sexually frank DATE TIME loves but blames for her sister’s death. As their lives unravel, drama suggests a re-evaluation of the traditional notions the city reveals itself perpetually torn between embracing and 19 OCT, SAT 8PM 20 OCT, SUN 2PM of relationships. resisting change. 34 October to November 35 Faces of the Korean Woman

Suddenly in Dark Night (1981) Iodo (1977)

SINGAPORE PREMIERE SINGAPORE PREMIERE ALTERNATIVE TITLE Suddenly in the Dark; Suddenly at Midnight ALTERNATIVE TITLE Io Island ORIGINAL TITLE Gipeun bam gapjagi ORIGINAL TITLE 깊은밤 갑자기 이어도 DIRECTED BY Go Yeong-nam DIRECTED BY Kim Ki-young RUNTIME 95 min RUNTIME 110 min COUNTRY South Korea COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING TBA Restored Version Restored Version

Synopsis Synopsis When one of the Io island's native sons, who had gone to the This horror classic involves a housewife’s descent into madness. mainland, disappears off the deck of a tourist ship, a businessman Seon-hee leads a comfortable life with husband Yu-jin and their suspected of killing him travels there in hopes of uncovering the daughter, but worries that he is losing interest in her. Yu-jin takes truth behind the man's disappearance. He organises a press in the homeless Mi-ok, the beautiful daughter of a deceased cruise trip to Io to promote a hotel and discovers a mythical isle shamaness. Initially inexplicably drawn to Mi-ok, Seon-hee of dark folk significance and a matriarchal society of shamanistic Schedule becomes disturbed by her recurring visions of Mi-ok’s doll and Schedule fisherwomen. Though learning of the island's cursed men, the she experiences hallucinations that drive her mad with suspicion businessman is nonetheless drawn to the affairs with the women. DATE TIME of an affair between Mi-ok and Yu-jin. The film’s tale of jealousy DATE TIME Depicting Korean men’s anxiety towards their place in society, Iodo portrays a woman so trapped in convention that she destroys presents an ambivalent portrait of an alternate “feminine” universe, 30 OCT, WED 8PM 1 NOV, FRI 8PM the domestic security she seeks to protect. one appearing both regrettably lost yet terrifyingly primordial. 36 October to November 37 Faces of the Korean Woman

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) Memento Mori (1999)

MOST POPULAR FILM ORIGINAL TITLE Janghwa, Hongryeon KODAK VISION AWARD (Best Cinematography) INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Fantasia International Film Festival 2004 장화, 홍련 Slamdance Film Festival 2001 DIRECTED BY Kim Jee-woon ORIGINAL TITLE Yeogogoedam dubeonchae iyagi 여고괴담 두번째 이야기 SILVER RAVEN (Special Jury Prize) BEST NEW ACTRESS DIRECTED BY Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyu-dong Brussels International Fantastic Film RUNTIME 115 min Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2000 Festival 2004 COUNTRY South Korea RUNTIME 98 min

BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ACTRESS & LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles COUNTRY South Korea SPECIAL JURY AWARD (Orient Express section) RATING PG13 (Horror) LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles International Film Festival 2004 RATING TBA BEST NEW ACTRESS & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 2003 Restored Version

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, BEST NEW ACTRESS & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Busan Film Critics Awards 2003 Synopsis In this modern take on an old Korean folktale, filial guilt and trauma are the name of the game. Su-mi is happily reunited with Synopsis her sister Su-yeon after being released from an institution, but One of Korea’s first commercial films depicting lesbian neither are thrilled about returning home. Their widowed father characters, this eerily elegiac horror is set in a girls’ school with has remarried, with new wife Eun-joo presiding over their home, a dark history. The plot unfolds nonlinearly, as Min-ah reads which the girls resent Eun-joo for. They try their best to resume the diary of two seniors and their tragic romance is revealed. everyday life until strange events start occurring. Shadowy Ostracised by prejudiced schoolmates, Shi-eun and Hyo-shin’s Schedule figures appear in unlikely places, keepsakes are vandalized, Schedule relationship is tested. A grave decision turns the school into everyone is gripped by suspicion. As unexplained incidents pile a host to the supernatural. With the prevalence of gender- DATE TIME up, the house seethes with hushed accusations, sexual tension, DATE TIME segregated schools in Korea, the relationships within Memento and abuse. But are the specters just in Su-mi’s mind, or are Mori queers the practised Confucianism and depict femininity 2 NOV, SAT 8PM 3 NOV, SUN 5PM unearthly spirits manipulating the household? as a threat to institutionalised patriarchy. 38 October to November 39 Faces of the Korean Woman

Spinning the Tales of (1983) A Splendid Outing (1978) Cruelty Towards Women

BEST SCREENPLAY & BEST ACTRESS ALTERNATIVE TITLE Mulleya Mulleya ORIGINAL TITLE Hwaryeohan wichul Korean Association of Film Critics 화려한 외출 Awards 1984 ORIGINAL TITLE Yeo-in Janhoksa Mulle-ya Mulle-ya DIRECTED BY Kim Soo-yong 여인 잔혹사 물레야 물레야 DIRECTED BY Lee Doo-yong BEST FILM RUNTIME 95 min Daejong Film Awards (Korean Academy RUNTIME 100 min COUNTRY South Korea Awards) 1983 COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING TBA

Synopsis Synopsis Set in 15th century Korea, Kil-rye’s poor family weds her to an Worked to exhaustion, prominent executive Hyo-hee dreams official’s deceased son. She endures her suffering stoically, of a woman beckoning to her, who may be her long-lost twin. submitting to the cruel logic governing her life as it moves to an Hyo-hee is kidnapped by fisherwomen and brought to a remote inevitable conclusion. This highly-controversial film confronted island where a farmer purchases her. He insists she is his wife Schedule Koreans with the incredible extent of women’s oppression Schedule and the mother of his child. “Married” to her captor, she seems during the Joseon era. So merciless was its demystification trapped in her new life. This film captures the nightmarish DATE TIME of this golden age that critics almost called it treason, DATE TIME anxieties of life as a modern woman, where not even social inadvertently underlining the persistence of male domination in stature can stave off festering hostility or fear of reprisal, and 6 NOV, WED 8PM 8 NOV, FRI 8PM contemporary Korea. “civilized society” is but an illusion. 40 October to November 41 Faces of the Korean Woman

A Petal (1996) Yeong-ja’s Heydays (1975)

KNF AWARD (Dutch Film Journalists Award). SINGAPORE PREMIERE SINGAPORE PREMIERE SPECIAL MENTION International Film Festival Rotterdam 1997 ORIGINAL TITLE Kkonnip ALTERNATIVE TITLE Yeong-ja in Her Prime 꽃잎 DIRECTED BY Jang Sun-woo ORIGINAL TITLE Yeongja-ui jeonseong sidae SPECIAL MENTION & ECUMENICAL JURY PRIZE 영자의 전성시대 International Filmfestival Mannheim- RUNTIME 89 min DIRECTED BY Kim Ho-sun Heidelberg 1996 COUNTRY South Korea RUNTIME 103 min BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles COUNTRY South Korea & BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Asia-Pacific Film Festival 1996 RATING TBA LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA BEST NEW ACTRESS & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Restored Version Korean Association of Film Critics Awards 1996 Restored Version

BEST NEW ACTRESS Blue Dragon Film Awards 1996 Synopsis A girl wanders the countryside looking for her brother, her face caked with dirt, her eyes wild. She latches onto a disabled laborer, who beats, abuses, and rapes her. Yet she registers nothing, and is barely able to communicate. Meanwhile, students are searching Synopsis for her, with little clue where she might be. She is revealed to This wildly popular ’70s film depicts Koreans struggling to adapt be the sister of their deceased friend. Through flashbacks, the to new realities as post-war industrialization delegitimizes origin of the girl’s trauma unravels. A Petal was the first cinematic their old understandings of the past. An incident lands Vietnam Schedule reflection on the 1980 Gwangju Massacre, when soldiers Schedule veteran Chang-su in jail. He meets Yeong-ja, a long-lost love murdered thousands who opposed Korea’s military takeover. 16 from before the war. Once a demure country girl, she has DATE TIME years had passed when the film was released, but its effect was DATE TIME become a brassy, disabled sex worker in order to make ends so powerful that people demanded the government’s release of meet. Chang-su wants to save Yeong-ja. But does she want to be 9 NOV, SAT 4PM 10 NOV, SUN 2PM classified files on the incident. saved? And is Chang-su still the right person for her? 42 October to November 43 Faces of the Korean Woman

Take Care of My Cat (2001) On the Beach at (2017) Night Alone

KNF AWARD (Dutch Film Journalists Award) ORIGINAL TITLE Goyangireul Butakhae SILVER BEAR (Best Actress) ORIGINAL TITLE Bamui Haebyeoneseo Honja SPECIAL MENTION 고양이를 부탁해 Berlin International Film Festival 2017 밤의 해변에서 혼자 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002 DIRECTED BY Jeong Jae-eun DIRECTED BY Hong Sang-soo AISGE AWARD (Best Actress) FIPRESCI PRIZE (International Film Critics’ Prize RUNTIME 112 min Gijón International Film Festival 2017 RUNTIME 101 min for New Asian Talent) COUNTRY South Korea COUNTRY South Korea, Germany SPECIAL MENTION GRAND PRIZE (Best Film) Hong Kong International Film Festival 2002 LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles Busan Film Critics Awards 2017 LANGUAGE Korean, English, German with English subtitles RATING PG RATING NC16 (Sexual References) NETPAC AWARD (Best Korean Film) & SPECIAL MENTION (New Currents) Busan International Film Festival 2001

Synopsis Synopsis This tender film chronicles five girls’ friendship after high Heartbroken Young-hee visits a divorced friend in Hamburg. As school. Like many in town, they dream of living in Seoul, but she awaits her lover’s arrival, Young-hee travels the city with her circumstances keep most from doing so. The exception is friend as they sort out their feelings and desires. Meanwhile, entitled but resilient Hae-joo, who moves for work. Her departure in Korea, Young-hee is an actress whose career was ruined by Schedule rattles them, who worry about losing their long-shared Schedule her affair with a married director. Between soju-fueled nights, camaraderie as adulthood forces them on separate paths, As Young-hee fends off regret and questions who is “qualified to DATE TIME they try to stay connected, what emerges is a portrait of the DATE TIME love.” This film is a quirky yet somber portrait of a woman whose strength of young Korean women as they tackle the burdens overexposure leads her to treat her romantic life as a matter of 13 NOV, WED 8PM 15 NOV, FRI 8PM imposed on them by society. how to “die with grace.” 44 October to November 45 Faces of the Korean Woman

Night Journey (1977) Microhabitat (2017)

ALTERNATIVE TITLE Night Voyage BEST NEW DIRECTOR & BEST SCREENPLAY SINGAPORE PREMIERE Daejong Film Awards (Korean Academy ORIGINAL TITLE Yahaen Awards) 2018 ORIGINAL TITLE So-gong-nyeo 야행 소공녀 DIRECTED BY Kim Soo-yong DIRECTED BY Jeon Go-woon BEST NEW DIRECTOR RUNTIME 76 min Blue Dragon Film Awards 2018 RUNTIME 106 min

COUNTRY South Korea BEST ACTRESS COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles Busan Film Critics Awards 2018 LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING TBA

Synopsis Synopsis Hyeon-ju is a middle-aged woman frustrated with a society Housekeeper Miso is a woman of simple pleasures: all she unable to keep up with her desires. Her relationship with needs is cigarettes, whiskey, and her wannabe-artist boyfriend. her supervisor is kept a secret. Though she pushes for the Amidst the pressures of big-city life, Miso is unwilling to give up only security available to her, in lucid moments, she knows a her comforts—so she ditches her apartment and couchsurfs marriage of convenience is not what she desires—least of all to at her former college bandmates’. But as she reconnects with a dullard unable to satisfy her. Having an unconventional taste old friends, she gets mixed up in the complications of their very Schedule for masochism, she wants to be taken, perhaps against her will. Schedule different lives. Jumping from couch to couch, Miso reconsiders Haunted by the unfulfilled promise of her tempestuous first love her place in life and decides on a new path. Microhabitat unfolds DATE TIME —killed at war—Hyeon-ju sees only banal conformity, an orgy of DATE TIME a tender, comic narrative that sensitively details the realities pleasure-seeking without passion. About to explode, she roams of millennial women who experience economic instability, job 16 NOV, SAT 4PM 16 NOV, SAT 8PM the streets in search of something to shake up her existence. precarity, and homelessness. 46 October to November 47 Faces of the Korean Woman

The Murmuring (1995) Us, Day by Day (2019)

OGAWA SHINSUKE PRIZE SOUTHEAST ASIAN PREMIERE BEST KOREAN FILM SOUTHEAST ASIAN PREMIERE (Award for Most Promising Film) Seoul International Women’s Film Festival 2019 Yamagata International Documentary Film ORIGINAL TITLE Najeun moksori DIRECTED BY Kangyu Garam 낮은 목소리 Festival 1995 DIRECTED BY Byun Young-joo RUNTIME 85 min RUNTIME 98 min COUNTRY South Korea COUNTRY South Korea LANGUAGE Korean with English subtitles LANGUAGE Korean, Mandarin with English subtitles RATING TBA RATING TBA

Synopsis One of the most acclaimed Korean documentaries, The Synopsis Murmuring is the first film in director Byun Young-joo’s trilogy on This documentary sees director Kangyu revisit her fellow the past and present lives of Korean women who were forced to ex-members of Young Feminists, a student group formed work in Japanese military brothels during WWII. It portrays their from several college districts in the ’90s. Now in their forties, struggle to overcome the sense of shame that had been planted these women have forged their own paths, with different jobs, in them and reinforced by an unsympathetic public. Instead of neighbourhoods and family types. Yet the concerns that united allowing this neglected part of Korean history to fade away, they them years ago remain. We follow them as they continue Schedule lead weekly protests outside the Japanese embassy to push Schedule to integrate their beliefs into daily life, as a women’s health for a formal apology and compensation from the Japanese movement activist, a feminist singer, an anti-sexual assault DATE TIME government. Over the years, Byun’s films have significantly DATE TIME activist, etc. This quietly remarkable documentary is a beautiful aided these efforts. This, her first feature, was also the first local time stamp on how feminism had taken root and persevered, 17 NOV, SUN 2PM 17 NOV, SUN 5PM documentary to acquire a major theatrical release in Korea. even when the everyday always seems to be taking over. night on earth after life the river

Dir. Jim Jarmusch Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda Dir. Jean Renoir 1991 | USA | Comedy/Drama | 129 mins | 1998 | Japan | Drama | 1951 | UK/India/France | Drama/Romance | perspectives DCP | Various languages with English 118 mins | DCP | Japanese 99 mins | 35mm | English & Bengali subtitles with English subtitles PG M18 (Scene of Intimacy) Rating TBA A young British girl falls in love with an On one night in five different cities, taxi Individuals who have recently passed on American ex-military man. But film festival drivers find themselves caught in tense find themselves in a bleak building, complications arise, as she competes conversations with their passengers as where they are asked to choose a happy with her British and Indian friends for his conflicting personalities and beliefs memory to take with them to the affections. Set along the Ganges River, intersect. afterlife. The film subtly asks of us to The River examines how cross-cultural reflect on life, relationships and influences affect relationships. Perspectives Film Festival is an annual arts event that features breakthrough films Oldham Theatre acceptance. that are thematically curated. Back for the 12th year, the festival is a practicum National Archives of Singapore This screening is supported course run by the faculty of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and 1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868 *The In-Betweens, a dialogue about life by the Embassy of Information (WKWSCI). It is organised by undergraduates from the Nanyang and death, will be held before the France in Singapore. Technological University (NTU) and is the first student-run film festival in Singapore. screening of After Life. Sat 26 Oct, 11.45am - 1.00pm | Ticket Prices Oldham Theatre Foyer General Admission $13 Perspectives Film Festival: Breakthroughs in Cinema 2019 will re-vision Crossroads, Concession $11 canoa: a shameful vai where intersections among people, places, and even in the imaginary are no longer PAssion Card Holders $10 (Singapore Premiere | Closing Film) as simple as they seem. What happens when strangers with conflicting ideas, biases memory and assumptions come together and confront impossible decisions? This year’s Concession (Singapore Premiere - 4K Restoration) Dir. Nicole Whippy, Sharon Whippy, line-up of films unearths how these aspects interact with one another in revelatory Concession is applicable to Students, ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, ways, and with reverberating impact. Senior Citizens ages 55 & above, NSFs, Dir. Felipe Cazals Matasila Freshwater, Amberley Jo and Singapore Film Society Film Addicts. 1976 | Mexico | Drama | 115 mins | DCP | Aumua, Mīria George, Marina Alofagia Spanish with English subtitles McCartney, Dianna Fuemana, Becs for sama NC16 (Some Violence) Arahanga (Singapore Premiere) 2019 | New Zealand | Anthology/Drama | Festival Pass In 1968, a group of young university the creatures 88 mins | DCP | English, Samoan, Maori & Dir. Waad Al-Kateab & Edward Watts $60 for all 7 films employees simply wanted to go on a (Singapore Premiere) Tonga with English subtitles 2019 | Syria | Documentary | 95 mins | DCP | hiking expedition up La Malinche. But in Rating TBA Arabic with English subtitles Rule of Thirds Discount a disturbing turn of events, they find Dir. Agnés Varda Rating TBA $9 per ticket for a bundle of three themselves as targets of violence 1966 | France | Drama/Sci-Fi | 92 mins | A portmanteau film featuring eight Pacific because of their mistaken identity as DCP | French with English subtitles women standing at the critical points of A shatteringly powerful first documentary feature by communist revolutionaries. PG championing their culture and ambition, co-directors Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, For Sama or succumbing to the pull of provides a rare female insider look into Assad’s inhumane Tickets are available online at: This screening is supported by the When a sci-fi novelist moves into a new modernisation. regime in Aleppo, Syria many years back. perspectivesfilmfestival.com Embassy of Mexico in Singapore and town with his mute wife, strange Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía occurrences are abound: the town’s This screening is supported (IMCINE). residents begin to act terribly towards by the New Zealand High one another, wrecking relationships Commission in Singapore. within minutes. The Creatures plays perspectivesfilmfest ambitiously with genre and metafiction. PerspectivesFF This screening is supported by the info@perspectivesfilmfestival.com Embassy of France in Singapore.

the in-betweens (Dialogue Session at Oldham Theatre Foyer)

Three stories about life and death, and the time in-between, are shared in this open dialogue session. From delivering the deceased in their last journey to battling death first hand, these speakers share what it means to be standing at a crossroads. Participants are strongly recommended to catch the accompanying screening of After Life (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda).

Please note that spaces are limited and sign-ups are based on a first-come-first serve basis.

*All information is correct at the time of print. Any changes will be updated and reflected on perspectivesfilmfestival.com SOUTHEAST ASIA'S LONGEST RUNNING FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS 21 NOV - 1 DEC 2019

With over 80 films, masterclasses and talks, join us as we celebrate the spirit of story-telling.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SELECTION PANEL (SINGAPORE SHORTS '19) GENERAL PUBLIC SGD 10 Karen Chan Aishah Abu Bakar Kristin Saw PROGRAMMER / OUTREACH OFFICER Sangjoon Lee CONCESSION SGD 9 Thong Kay Wee Pauline Soh Students (Local & Overseas), Full-time National Thong Kay Wee Servicemen (NSF), Senior Citizens (55 years and above) MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE RESEARCH WRITER / EDITOR Natalie Ng Lim Lung Chieh Tickets are available at asianfilmarchive.org and Oldham Theatre’s Box Office. THEATRE MANAGER PROGRAMMING SUPPORT Lim Si Qi Sangho Yoon OLDHAM BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS Opens 1 hour before screening time and closes 30 minutes THEATRE ASSISTANT SUBTITLING SUPPORT after last screening starts. Diane Toh Hahjung Chin Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday Hoon Hee Lee ARCHIVIST Sangho Yoon WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Chew Tee Pao Yoonju Julie Jung Lifts provide easy access to the cinema.

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