Singapore 2024

Festival Reviews

Until the Orchid Blooms

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Dec 9, 2024 | Singapore 2024, Featured, Festivals

‘Until the Orchid Blooms’ is a fine exploration of the battle between modernism and tradition set in a Cambodian community.

City of Small Blessings

by Clarence Tsui | Dec 9, 2024 | Singapore 2024, Featured, Festivals

Bowing at the Singapore International Film Festival, Chen-hsi Wong’s second feature ‘City of Small Blessings’ is a film of delicate visuals and nuanced performances, but uncertain messaging.

One of Those Days When Hemme Dies

by Clarence Tsui | Dec 5, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Singapore 2024, Venice 2024

A vengeful labourer’s plan to kill his manipulative foreman gives way to empathy for the rural poor in lawyer-turned-filmmaker Murat Firatoglu’s solid directorial debut.

Crocodile Tears

by Clarence Tsui | Dec 4, 2024 | Festivals, Singapore 2024

Marissa Anita and Yusuf Mahardika deliver biting performances as a possessive mother and a confused mamma’s boy in Indonesian filmmaker Tumpal Tampubolon’s powerful if predictable suspense thriller, ‘Crocodile Tears’.

The House of Janus

by Clarence Tsui | Dec 3, 2024 | Festivals, Singapore 2024

Singaporean playwright Keng Sen Ong juxtaposes his queer take on a 17th century opera with a documentary about Dutch curator and academic Adriaan van der Staay’s summer retreat in the beautiful yet bewildering ‘The House of Janus’.