Geylang 芽笼 (Boi Kwong, 2022)
Geylang is revolutionary in the Singapore film canon
Before you give this a skip because it’s produced by J-team, no. Geylang does not have any Jack Neo sensibilities and things you’d expect from a Jack Neo movie.
I got the chance to watch ‘Geylang’ at SGIFF, nominated at the Golden Horse awards for Best Action choreography. The film will also be publicly distributed in local commercial cinemas on 6 April 2023.
Now, ‘Geylang’ was unprecedented.…
Hi, Mom 你好，李焕英 (Jia Ling, 2021)
I laughed, laughed harder, laughed so hard I teared, then I was overwhelmed by sadness, still laughing all while crying; I attained enlightenment accepting that it is only normal to respond to viewing the film like this because I’m human.
Please do yourself a favour and watch this film guys. Even better if you could do it with your mother/father/immediate family members you care about. Honestly… It has been so long since I’ve watched…
’m not your f***ing stereotype (Hesome Chemamah, 2019)
Winner of the best Southeast Asian Short Film in the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) 2019.
Since this is a short film, I don’t think I can talk too critically about the film’s technicalities. But this film is so endearing and awesome and I want to talk about how eye-catching and educational it is!
This is Chemamah’s debut and thesis film for his undergraduate studies. Drawing from his own identity as a…
How radical, yet poetic and profound. With its powerful details and visuals, the usual search for meaning from the spectators becomes mundane. What matters is the haunting sight (or illusion) of the excluded migrant worker community that is right here close to us, yet so far away from Singapore.
While reality, realism and delusion intertwine, what really stood out in this film are the possible perspectives: the fear, the risks, the inprisonment that are all truly felt by the vulnerable…
