D8 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018 | FILMS Yip Wai Yee and John Lui recommend GV Marvel Movie Marathon EUROPEAN UNION Golden Village is teaming up with Picks FILM FESTIVAL Disney to present an exclusive 10-film Would you be willing to make all of Marvel Movie Marathon. Starting with your phone calls public for everyone the Marvel Studios’ The Avengers, Film to listen to? That is the game that the 27-hour movie marathon leads up a group of seven friends play at a to one of Singapore’s first public dinner party, which quickly descends screenings of the latest Marvel into chaos when dark secrets start Studios movie, Avengers: Infinity War, spilling out from these calls. which opens here next week. This is the premise for the Italian Ticketholders will get a T-shirt, film, Perfect Strangers (2016, left), goodie bag, three complimentary one of the offerings at the 28th meals and an Avengers: Infinity War edition of the European Union Film movie premium. Festival, the longest-running foreign WHERE: GVmax, 02-30 VivoCity, film festival in Singapore. 1 Harbourfront Walk WHERE: National Gallery Singapore, MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: Tue 1 St Andrew’s Road MRT: City Hall (7.30am) & Wed (11.30am) WHEN: May 10 to 20, various times ADMISSION: $140 ($120 for ADMISSION: $12 from Sistic GVMovieClub members) (call 6348-5555 or go to INFO: www.gv.com.sg www.sistic.com.sg) INFO: For schedules, go to Breaking The Limits – www.euff.sg Najlepszy (2017, M18) This is an inspiring tale of how broken Yip Wai Yee star athlete Jerzy Gorski battled his drug addiction and impending suicide to emerge as one of the most celebrated sportsmen today – with the help of two courageous women in his life. In Polish with English subtitles. WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Thu, 8pm (Redrum) ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg Carte Blanche (2015, NC16) Inspired by incredible but true events, Carte Blanche is the uplifting story of a charismatic high-school history teacher, Kacper, who hides his progressive blindness from everyone around him to keep his dream job and help his students prepare for their final examinations. In Polish with English subtitles. JOURNEYMAN (NC16) WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden 93 minutes PHOTOS: SINGAPORE CHINESE Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: April 27, FILM FESTIVAL, Chinese film-maker Zhang Tao’s Capitol Theatre, Golden Village 7.30pm (Green Room) SINGAPORE CHINESE Last Laugh (2017, above) follows the cineplexes, The Projector and the ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), Matty Burton (Paddy Considine, FILM FESTIVAL, life of elderly farmer Mrs Lin, who is on National Museum of Singapore $11.50 (concession) above) is a middleweight boxing SHAW ORGANISATION a long waiting list for a bed in a WHEN: April 27 to May 6, various times INFO: theprojector.sg champion who wants to quit the nursing home. ADMISSION: $13 a ticket. For films game for the sake of his family. Until she gets a place, she finds showing at Golden Village cineplexes, NATURE But he will retire only after one herself shuttled between her tickets are available from more big-money match, the outcome children’s homes. www.gv.com.sg and Golden Village of which shatters his dream of a This movie is among 59 works box offices. For films shown Singapore Garden Festival happy home life. screening at the Singapore Chinese elsewhere, go to Sistic Orchid Show In this fictional character study, Film Festival, many of which are INFO: For schedules, go to scff.sg The inaugural Singapore Garden Matty is a creation that will test the making their Singapore premiere. Festival (SGF) Orchid Show will audience’s sympathies. He is a nice WHERE: Various locations, including Yip Wai Yee showcase a variety of award-winning guy, but after one traumatic head and heritage orchids. An offshoot of injury, audiences will find that pity the flagship SGF, the show is a only goes so far. partnership between the National Considine’s portrait of illness and Parks Board and the Orchid Society of recovery is unsparing and stark and South East Asia, priming Singapore it goes where other true-life stories for its role as host for the Asia Pacific do not, or cannot, go. His finely Orchid Conference in 2022. textured performance exposes the WHERE: National Orchid Garden & humanity in a husk of a human being. other parts of Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic John Lui Gardens WHEN: Tomorrow - April 29, 8.30am - 7pm ADMISSION: Free for Singapore citizens, permanent residents & work-permit holders; Book of Records. nparks.gov.sg INFO: E-mail Gynaecological Cancer Awareness TEL: 6852-8224 INFO: E-mail international visitors: $5 (adults), WHERE: The Meadows, Gardens by [email protected] or Campaign, the Singapore Cancer [email protected] students & seniors ($1) INFO: E-mail the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Drive [email protected] Society is organising its first Mother’s singaporegardenfestival@ MRT: Bayfront WHEN: Sun, 8am - noon Day Healthy Cooking Competition. Trolls Topia nparks. gov.sg ADMISSION/INFO: $36 - $49 (for dogs Istana Nature Guided Walk Mother-and-child teams must submit Step into the colourful world of & buddies), $12 (without dog), This guided walk – a collaboration one complete main dish, the DreamWorks’ Trolls at Universal Pelagic Birdwatching register at goo.gl/npnuaF between the President’s Office and accompanying recipe and photo for Studios Singapore. Experience two Organised by the Nature Society the National Parks Board – will take professional judging to qualify for the shows featuring your favourite Trolls, (Singapore) (NSS), this pelagic trip Who Let The Dogs Out Carnival place during the Istana Open House finals. All finalists will get a frying pan Poppy and Branch, join Guy Diamond allows participants to view seabirds Take your pet dog for a fun carnival on Labour Day and showcase the and a goodie bag worth $20. The top in a glitter-rama experience and on their spring migration northwards. filled with family-friendly activities. Istana’s flora, fauna and biodiversity. prize is a three-day, two-night immerse yourself in new one-of-a- The group will sail on the Singapore The event is organised by Telok WHERE: The Istana, Orchard Road Bintan Banyan Tree stay for two. kind Trolls virtual-reality games. Plus, Strait and turn around between the Blangah Community Club. MRT: Dhoby Ghaut WHEN: May 1, 10am WHERE: Bedok Town Square, 208C enjoy your favourite rides and end of Changi and north of Batam. WHERE: West Coast Dog Run, - 4pm (hourly) ADMISSION: $2 for Upper Changi Road MRT: Bedok attractions. WHERE: Singapore Strait; meet Lim West Coast Park MRT: Kent Ridge child aged from three, $4 for WHEN: May 5, 10am - 1pm Kim Keang (5.30am) at One°15 Marina WHEN: May 12, 9am - noon Singapore citizens & permanent ADMISSION: Free, sign up at WHERE: Universal Studios Singapore, Club in Sentosa Cove ADMISSION: Free INFO: goo.gl/2X3xTx residents ($10 for foreigners aged 13 bit.ly/scsmothersdaycooking Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa MRT: HarbourFront WHEN: May 13, & older); family (for four) package at (entries close on Sun) Gateway MRT: HarbourFront 5.30am - 2.30pm ADMISSION/INFO: TOURS $12/$30 INFO: E-mail TEL: 6421-5860 INFO: E-mail WHEN: Till April 29 ADMISSION: $76 $100 a person to cover cost of boat; [email protected] communityhealth@ (for those aged 13 - 59); $56 (for those For NSS members (go to singaporecancersociety.org.sg aged four - 12); $38 (for those aged 60 www.nss.org.sg for membership Monument Trail CONTEST & older) INFO: rwsentosa.com information); register with Visit the historical landmarks of the Landscape Architecture Lee Ee Ling (9693-5870 or e-mail Civic District and learn more about its Student Competition LAST CALL [email protected] with your heritage and other interesting trees POSB-NLB Kids’ Lit Quiz The Student Design Competition of passport details) in the vicinity. The trail starts at National Finals the 55th IFLA World Congress is Muji Textile Talk Cavenagh Bridge near the mouth of After three intense days of heats and sponsored by the International Japanese textile designer Reiko Sudo PETS the Singapore River – once the heart semi-final rounds, 10 teams of pupils Federation of Landscape Architects of Singapore’s commercial activity will pit their literary wit against one and organised by the Singapore will present a talk on textiles, design and entrepot trade – and takes you another. Organised by the National Institute of Landscape Architects. and sustainability titled Creative Walk-A-Paw through Empress Place and Library Board and supported by It aims to demonstrate the highest Reuse: Products, Practices, People. This event is designed to promote Esplanade Park before ending at the POSB, the annual literature standards in landscape-architecture The event is part of Muji Singapore’s healthy and active lifestyles for dogs War Memorial Park. competition is for pupils aged 10 to 13. education worldwide. The top prize is 15th-anniversary celebrations. and their owners by allowing both to WHERE: Between entrance of Asian Questions are on children’s books US$3,500 (S$4,600). WHERE: Drama Theatre, School of the engage in an activity together. It is Civilisations Museum & Cavenagh from different genres. The winning WHERE: Go to in www.ifla2018.com/ Arts, 1 Zubir Said Drive also an attempt to break the current Bridge MRT: Raffles Place team will represent Singapore in the student-design-competition for MRT: Bencoolen/Dhoby Ghaut record for the most number of dogs WHEN: April 28, 10 - 11.30am Kids’ Lit Quiz World Finals held in details WHEN: Submission deadline is WHEN: Today, 4 - 6pm taking part in a run, in the Singapore ADMISSION: Free, register at Auckland, New Zealand, in July.