Don’t Miss It: Embrace the best of Asian film-making at SGIFF 2016
updated the 2 November 2016 à 11:19
Check out the best of Asian cinema, plus get the chance to meet acclaimed director Darren Arronofsky.
Heads up, film buffs: the 27th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) might just have the perfectly curated selection of films and programmes with an Asian focus for you.
This year’s SGIFF will present a total of 161 feature and short films from 52 countries, and also 16 world premieres, 9 international premiers and 18 Asian premieres across various venues. This includes the Asian premiere of the SGIFF’s opening film, Interchange (2016) at the Marina Bay Sands – a noir, fantasy thriller by Dain Iskandar Said, one of Malaysia’s most celebrated filmmakers. In addition to screening films from Asia, USA and Europe, SGIFF will also put the spotlight on independent films from countries that audiences may be less familiar with, such as Latin American Cinema and Estonian and Nepalese shorts.
Beyond its film premieres and screenings, SGIFF is organising a series of dialogue sessions with ArtScience Museum for ArtScience on Screen: In Conversation With, where festival-goers will get the chance to hear film insights and experiences from award-winning director, screenwriter and producer Darren Aronofsky – the director of Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler (2008) and, of course, Black Swan (2010). The festival will also screen his first feature film Pi, which won him the Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, as part of An Evening with Darren Aronofsky.
The diversity in its film curation every year is testimony to the festival’s commitment to bringing together a rich mix of independent film-making talent in both Asia and beyond, as the leading international film platform in Southeast Asia. SGIFF is an event of the SMF, hosted by the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA). Its Official Sponsors include returning Presenting Sponsor, Marina Bay Sands, Official Festival Time Partner, IWC Schaffhausen, and Official Airline, Singapore Airlines.
Head up to the gallery to check out the stills from some of the much-anticipated films showing at this year’s 27th SGIFF!
The 27th edition of SGIFF runs from 23 November to 4 December 2016, and will take place across various venues, including Marina Bay Sands, Capitol Theatre, National Museum of Singapore Gallery Theatre, Shaw Theatres Lido, National Gallery Singapore Auditorium, The Arts House Screening Room, Filmgarde Bugis+ and Objectifs Chapel Gallery.
For more information, and to grab your tickets, head to sgiff.com.
Sarah Khan
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