D8 life happenings | THE STRAITS TIMES | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018 | Yip Wai Yee Entertainment Correspondent recommends Picks Film SINGAPORE CINEMA: BETWEEN TAKES How well do you know Singapore film history? SHADOW (NC16) SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Singapore Film Commission (SFC), 115 mins Turning 18 (2018, in celebrating its 20th anniversary, right) is a commissioned a documentary to If you missed Zhang Yimou’s documentary about commemorate the biggest milestones gorgeous wuxia masterpiece Shadow two indigenous of Singapore cinema. The film, Singapore in cinemas earlier this year, you can Taiwanese teenage Cinema: Between Takes, will be screened catch it at The Projector this girls on the cusp of tomorrow, along with a panel discussion with weekend. adulthood – one is a local film-makers Eric Khoo, Kirsten Tan and The film, which stars real-life sex abuse survivor Sanif Olek as well as SFC director Joachim Ng. Chinese celebrity golden couple Deng and the other a WHERE: Gallery Theatre, National Museum Chao and Sun Li, is an intricate tale teenage mother. of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road about secret identities and court The two MRT: Bras Basah WHEN: Tomorrow, 11am intrigue during the Three Kingdoms impoverished girls ADMISSION: A refundable $5 registration period. meet and become fee from Peatix (go to https://sgiff2018- Veteran film-maker Zhang, said friends at a sgo-sgcinema.peatix.com/) to have “returned to form” after his vocational training critically panned monster movie WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Deng Chao (left) programme, where The Great Wall (2016), finally bagged Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road and Sun Li they share dreams of having happy families and leading better lives. his first Golden Horse award for Best MRT: Nicoll Highway (right) The film, which also examines the bigger issues of sexual abuse of minors Director for Shadow earlier this WHEN: Sunday, 2.20pm in Shadow. and casual racism in Taiwan, is one of 103 films showing at the Singapore month. The film also snagged the ADMISSION: $13.50 from International Film Festival. most number of awards at the theprojector.sg WHERE: Various locations, including Capitol Theatre, National Gallery ceremony. Singapore and National Museum of Singapore MRT: Various PHOTOS: GOLDEN VILLAGE, SINGAPORE FILM COMMISSION, WHEN: Till Dec 9 ADMISSION: $12 from Sistic (call 6348-5555 or SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL go to www.sistic.com.sg) FILMS Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road the cold north to spend the winter will also be on sale. The event is a Nature Keeper Camp of food. Sign up for workshops – MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Sun, 2pm months in the warmer southern parts prelude to the upcoming stage This one-day camp (for Primary 1 to 5 Glitter Slime Making (2 - 2.30pm, $16), (Redrum) ADMISSION: $13.50 of the earth. Singapore, especially the production of The Gruffalo at Colourful Christmas Ornaments (3 - The Imitation Game (2014, NC16) kids) is a programme by the National (standard), $11.50 (concession) Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, is a KidsFest in January. Parks Board and Mitsubishi 4pm, $21) or Christmas Bauble (3 - Based on the real-life story of INFO: theprojector.sg favourite stopover for these birds. WHERE: Kinokuniya Singapore Main Corporation that aims to develop and 4pm, $30) – to pick up new skills and legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, Participants will learn how to identify Store, 04-20/21 Ngee Ann City increase a child’s appreciation for make personalised gifts which you the film portrays the nail-biting race Widows (2018, M18) birds and use a pair of binoculars and (Takashimaya Shopping Centre), nature and natural heritage. The can give to your loved ones or donate against time by him and his team of From Academy Award-winning a spotting scope to better see the 391 Orchard Road MRT: Orchard camp provides fun and educational to the institute’s adopted charities code-breakers at Britain’s top secret director Steve McQueen (12 Years A details of birds. WHEN: Tomorrow, 4.30pm learning in a forest environment. Awwa and Minds. Government Code and Cypher School Slave) and co-writer and best-selling WHERE: Wetland Centre, Sungei Buloh ADMISSION: Free TEL: 6737-5021 There will be nature walks, games with WHERE: 11 Eunos Road 8 in Bletchley Park during the darkest author Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), Wetland Reserve, 301 Neo Tiew INFO: kinokuniya.com.sg nature themes, indoor learning and MRT: Paya Lebar WHEN: Dec 8, 1 - 7pm days of World War II. Widows is the story of four women Crescent MRT: Kranji WHEN: Dec 8, hands-on activities. ADMISSION: Free (bazaar); WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden workshops $16 - $30 a person with nothing in common except 9.30 - 11am ADMISSION: Free, register SmartKids Asia Storyland WHERE: Seminar/Meeting Room, Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road at www.nparks.gov.sg TEL: 6794-1401 INFO: goo.gl/36zSG3 a debt left behind by their dead SmartKids Asia is an educational kids’ Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Today, INFO: E-mail:nparks_sbwr husbands’ criminal activities. Set in fair. At the Storyland, get acquainted Hindhede Drive MRT: Beauty World 8pm (Blue Room) ADMISSION: $13.50 contemporary Chicago in a time of @nparks.gov.sg WHEN: Tue, 9am - 5pm (standard), $11.50 (concession) with the timeless classic tales of LAST CALL turmoil, tensions build when Veronica ADMISSION: $25 a child (includes INFO: theprojector.sg Cinderella, Peter Pan and Snow White (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), CONTESTS And The Seven Dwarfs in the form of halal lunch, tea break and craft Work Out For A Good Cause Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle materials); register at theatrical plays and storytelling. In support of Giving Week 2018 and Happy As Lazzaro (2018, PG13) www.nparks.gov.sg INFO: E-mail (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into WHERE: Hall 5B Singapore Expo, Babes Pregnancy Crisis Support, This Italian film directed by Alice their own hands and conspire to forge Gift A Golden Christmas [email protected] Rohrwacher won the Best Screenplay 1 Expo Drive MRT: Expo PushPullGive is holding a Hiit-Fit a future on their own terms. Also stars With The Golden Duck Award at this year’s Cannes Film WHEN: Tomorrow, 11am - 9pm Bodyweight Workout, with all Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell and Robert To join snack company The Golden Meet The ‘Real’ Santa Claus Festival. The charming magic-realist ADMISSION: Free, register proceeds going to Babes, which helps Duvall. Duck’s annual Gift A Golden Christmas Finnair, the official airline of Santa folk tale spans rural and urban Italy. eventbrite.sg young mothers in difficult situations. WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Claus since the 1980s, will be flying PushPullGive is a social enterprise Lazzaro, a young peasant so good contest, write a heartfelt message at Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road Father Christmas to Singapore and start-up that offers fitness activities that he is often mistaken for being the website mentioned below to a Dragons & Damsels In Our MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Thu to organising a four-day festive through which it raises funds that simple-minded, meets Tancredi, loved one living overseas. The Golden Wetland: A Guided Tour Dec 9, 8pm (Green Room) campaign, where the original Santa enable marginalised youth to enjoy a young nobleman cursed by his Duck will pick the best messages and With body structures that have ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 will be spreading joy, goodwill and fitness programmes without having imagination. Life in their isolated send out up to 100 packages of its remained largely unchanged for (concession) INFO: theprojector.sg Christmas cheer. Besides a to worry about the cost. pastoral village Inviolata is signature flavours, Nanyang millions of years, dragonflies – fighter meet-and-greet session with the WHERE: Tiong Bahru Park, dominated by the terrible Chicken’s sauces and other local pilots of the insect world – help to public upon his arrival at Changi 1 Henderson Road MRT: Tiong Bahru Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, goodies to the overseas addresses of keep the population of insect pests in NATURE Airport Terminal 1, Santa will also be at WHEN: Tomorrow, 8 - 9am the winners’ loved ones. check and are an indicator of wetland the queen of cigarettes. the Finnair check-in area to mingle ADMISSION: $23, tickets at WHERE: Hall3, Filmgarde Bugis+, WHERE: Go to thegoldenduck. health. Learn how the plants and Ecolife At Coney Island Park typeform.com/to/Cal1vh with passengers flying to Helsinki givingweekhiit.peatix.com 201 Victoria Street MRT: Bugis animals have adapted to the wetland and at the inaugural Nordic-Asia TEL: 9633-8394 INFO: E-mail The 50ha Coney Island Park is home WHEN: Entries close on Dec 14, WHEN: Sun, 2pm ADMISSION: $10.80 - habitat, discover the differences Christmas Festival at Millenia Walk. [email protected] to a wide variety of fauna and flora, 11.59pm (delivery by Dec 31) $12 TEL: 6348-5555 between dragonflies and damselflies, WHERE (MRT): Changi Airport T1 INFO: www.sistic.com.sg some of which are critically ADMISSION: Free and challenge yourself to identify Arrival Hall (Changi Airport); Millenia • The listings on these Happenings endangered, as well as habitats INFO: facebook.com/TGDSG the many species of dragonflies Walk, 9 Raffles Boulevard pages are free. Write to Life including coastal forests, grasslands, and damselflies that can be found Faces Places (2017, PG13) (Promenade) WHEN: T1: Wed, early Happenings, Life, The Straits mangroves and Casuarina woodlands. This documentary (in French with KIDS here. evening; Millenia Walk: Dec 7 (1 - 9pm), Times,1000 Toa Payoh North, WHERE: West Entrance, Coney Island English subtitles) is directed by WHERE: Visitor Services Desk at Dec 8 (3 - 7pm) ADMISSION: Free Singapore 318994 or e-mail Park MRT: Punggol (Punggol Point Belgian-born director Agnes Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden, INFO: E-mail [email protected] [email protected] at least two weeks Varda and the iconic French LRT) WHEN: Tomorrow, 9 - 11am The Gruffalo Character Mascot Singapore Botanic Gardens,1 Cluny ahead.