| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7 FILMS Movie In The Gardens – John Lui Film Correspondent recommends The Wizard Of Oz (1939) This screening by the National Cancer Centre Singapore honours Breast Picks Cancer Awareness Month. Enjoy free- flow popcorn, candy floss and ice cream. Film WHERE: Singapore Botanic Gardens, Eco Lake Lawn (enter via Bukit Timah Gate), 1 Cluny Road MRT: Botanic Gardens WHEN: Tomorrow, 7.30 - 9.15pm ADMISSION: Free INFO: E-mail nparks_sbg_visitor_ [email protected] Cathay Horror Haunt: Asian Dark Hour – The Revenge Of The Unsettled The movies feature iconic antagonists from the greatest Asian horror films such as Ring (1998), Shutter (2004) and Dark Water (2002), as well as urban legends including the pontianak and Chinese vampires. WHERE: The Cathay, External Atrium, Handy Road MRT: Dhoby Ghaut WHEN: Tomorrow & Sun, 2 - 10pm ADMISSION: Present a minimum $5 same-day spending receipt a person (Cathay Cineplexes ticket stubs are accepted) or pay $10 entry fee INFO: thecathay.com.sg/ event/horrorhaunt Giant Little Ones (2018, R21) Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high-school royalty – handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls – and live a perfect teenage life until the night of Franky’s epic 17th-birthday party, when he and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Winner of the 2019 Goteborg Song Kang-ho (left) and Jang Hye-jin star in Parasite. PHOTO: GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL/PICTURE TREE INTERNATIONAL, GOLDEN VILLAGE, PERSPECTIVES FILM FESTIVAL Film Festival Audience Award for Best International Feature & Dragon Award for International Competition, this 13TH KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL work is part of Golden Village’s 11th Those who missed the chance to see 23RD GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL Love & Pride Film Festival. one of this year’s best movies – the Endzeit – Ever After (left, PG13, 90 WHERE: GV Grand, 03-125 Great World best movie this reviewer has seen this minutes) is a zombie movie that dares City, 1 Kim Seng Promenade year – can now pick up a free ticket to ask: What’s so apocalyptic about MRT: Orchard/Tiong Bahru Bong Joon-ho’s social comedy humans vanishing from Earth? WHEN: Sun, 6.30pm ADMISSION: $13 Parasite (M18, 131 minutes, screens Two women, Vivi (Gro Swantje (members), $15 (public) INFO: E-mail tomorrow, Sunday and Oct 26, various Kohlhof) and Eva (Maja Lehrer), leave [email protected] times, at Shaw Lido), winner of the their small German city, one of the last Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film human holdouts, to explore a world Moonlight Cinema – Empire Festival. where nature has taken over. Records (1995) Eight films will be screened this Berlin-based film-maker Carolina This coming-of-age comedy-drama year, including Lee Chang-dong’s Hellsgard will give a post-screening follows a group of record store acclaimed mystery-drama Burning talk. The film screens on Oct 31 at employees over the course of one (M18, 148 minutes). The opening film 7.15pm at GV Plaza Singapura. exceptional day. They try to stop the is Yim Soon-rye’s lighthearted drama This take on a horror genre is one of store from being sold to a large chain about living the good life in the 20 films to be screened at the festival, and learn about one another along country, Little Forest (PG, 98 now in its 23rd edition. They range the way. minutes). Yim will be present on the from classics to new releases, across WHERE: Supertree Grove Lawn, opening night tonight. almost every genre. Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina WHERE: The Projector, 05-00 Golden WHERE: Various, including GV Plaza Gardens Drive MRT: Bayfront Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, and Singapura, 07-01 Plaza Singapura, WHEN: Oct 25, 9 - 11pm Shaw Theatres Lido, Shaw House, 68 Orchard Road; Singapore Botanic ADMISSION: Free 5th/6th floor, 350 Orchard Road Gardens, 1 Cluny Road; and Our INFO: www.facebook.com/ WHEN: Oct 18 to 27, various times Tampines Hub, 1 Tampines Walk sginternationalfilmfestival ADMISSION: Free, with registration WHEN: Oct 24 to Nov 10, various times INFO: www.koreanfilmfestivalsg.com ADMISSION: From $9.50 Dreaming Murukami (2017, PG) INFO: bit.ly/2Mju1Ku Dreaming Murakami is told through the eyes of translator Mette Holm, who has been translating Haruki Murakami’s works into Danish for PERSPECTIVES FILM FESTIVAL mother, in the besieged Syrian city of nearly 20 years. The film explores the The 12th edition of the festival Aleppo. Winner of the Golden Eye, a dream-like quality of Murakami’s celebrating films that deal with prize for best documentary at the writing and is also a biography of issues is organised by Cannes Film Festival. Holm’s path towards her lifelong undergraduates from the Nanyang WHERE: Oldham Theatre, 1 Canning vocation. In Danish, Japanese and Technological University. Rise MRT: Dhoby Ghaut/ English, with English subtitles. It opens with the documentary For Bras Basah/ Clarke Quay WHERE: Redrum, The Projector, Sama (left, NC16, 95 minutes, WHEN: Oct 24 to 27, various times Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 screening on Oct 24, 8pm, and Oct 27, ADMISSION: $60 for a festival pass Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway 1.30pm, at the Oldham Theatre). with access to all seven films; $13 for WHEN: Oct 25, 8.30pm Co-director Waad Al-Kateab made a a single screening ADMISSION: $13.50 (standard), $11.50 video diary of her life, as a young INFO: www.perspectivesfilm (student, full-time national woman, then bride, then as a wife and festival.com serviceman & senior’s concession) INFO: theprojector.sg KIDS Singapore Maker Extravaganza – Steam For Sustainability The three-day event features the inaugural Young Technopreneurs for a Sustainable 2030 Expo Showcase, presented by Temasek Foundation. Don’t miss the showcase by the top 15 Halloween Kids Party: The NATURE collection of fruit trees. The tour will part of the headquarters for the WHERE: Funan Mall, The Base @ B2, finalists who participated in the Addams Family cover tropical fruit commonly seen in Malaya Command, the army that 107 North Bridge Road MRT: City Hall Young Technopreneurs for a Catch The Addams Family in your What’s In My Water? supermarkets and other edible fruit defended Singapore during World WHEN: Today - Sun, 11am - 9pm Sustainable 2030 challenge, which War II. On the tour, the docent will take daily ADMISSION: Free spookiest outfit. The best dressed On this walk, participants will get to that are grown and consumed in the encourages young people to participants 9m underground into INFO: www.homeanddecor.com.sg/ stand to walk away with prizes worth know the flora and fauna living in the region. brainstorm, develop and prototype $100. WHERE: Visitor Services Desk, Jacob the Battlebox. popup19 Sungei Buloh wetland. WHERE: Battlebox Visitor Centre, Fort solutions to achieve sustainable WHERE: GV VivoCity, 02-30, Ballas Children’s Garden, Singapore WHERE: Sungei Buloh Wetland Canning Park, 2 Cox Terrace development. 1 Harbourfront Walk Reserve, Visitor Centre, 301 Neo Tiew Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road LAST CALL WHERE: Annexe Halls 1 – 3, Science MRT: Botanic Gardens MRT: Bras Basah/Fort Canning MRT: HarbourFront Crescent MRT: Kranji WHEN: Oct 25, 9.45 & 11am, 1.30, 2.45 Centre Singapore, 15 Science Centre WHEN: Oct 26, 9.45am WHEN: Tomorrow, 9.30 - 11am WHEN: Oct 26, 10 - 11am ADMISSION: $6 (child), & 4pm ADMISSION: $20 (adult), $10 NUS Jazz Band – Jazz After Dark Road MRT: Jurong East ADMISSION: $20 (members); ADMISSION: Free; registration WHEN: Today - Sun, 10am - 5pm $6 (accompanying adult) (child) TEL: 6338-6133 The NUS Jazz Band will dish out tunes $24 (public) requiredINFO: E-mail nparks_sbwr@ INFO: www.battlebox.com.sg ADMISSION: $8 (child), $10 (adult) INFO: E-mail cyrena_lin@ from singers such as Michael TEL: 6653-8100 nparks.gov.sg INFO: www.science.edu.sg/whatson/ nparks.gov.sg Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald and Chet INFO: E-mail customersvc@ Open House singapore-maker-extravaganza Baker. goldenvillage.com.sg The Tale Of Our Forests – BES At Teck Seng’s Place Drongos Petai Trail Walk WHERE: Lowercase Cafe, Lasalle TOURS Take a self-guided tour around Teck College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street Sushi Making Workshop With Ever wanted to know why nature Seng’s Place and learn about 1970s 3-day Superday Camp At MRT: Rochor WHEN: Today, 7 - 9.30pm Eyeyah! groups are kicking up a fuss about Creepy Tales Of World War II And Pulau Ubin and what life was like in a SuperPark Singapore ADMISSION: $16 Make your own maki roll and learn the Cross Island MRT Line? Find out Cemetery Tour Chinese kampung house. The camp aims to hone children’s INFO: bit.ly/JazzAfterDark2019 about healthy ingredients. Kids will be on the Petai Trail, a boardwalk trail Explore the creepiest places in WHERE: Teck Seng’s Place, Jalan Ubin, motor skills and adopts a play-based given their own trays and materials (part of the longer Prunus-Petai Trail) Singapore at night with a guide and Pulau Ubin WHEN: Oct 26, learning model from Finland that and guided step by step by a at the eastern end of MacRitchie ghost-hunting equipment. Hear 10am - 2pm ADMISSION: Free focuses on the importance of play, joy professional chef and an Eyeyah! Reservoir Park. spooky stories about World War II and INFO: E-mail nparks_sbwr@ • The listings on these Happenings food expert. Suitable for kids aged and active participation through WHERE: Mushroom Cafe, visit creepy places, including a nparks.gov.sg pages are free. Write to Life seven to 12. Participants will take movement. Through competition MacRitchie Reservoir Park Chinese cemetery with more than Happenings, Life, The Straits Times, home their handmade maki roll, a games, children will also improve their MRT: Caldecott 100,000 tombs.