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# SGIFF

Singapore International Film Festival

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://sgiff.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Pages

- [Singapore International Film Festival 2026](https://sgiff.com/) - The 37th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival is happening from 21 October to 1 November 2026. Stay tuned for our programme launch.
- [Purchase Merchandise](https://sgiff.com/purchase-merchandise/)
- [Parallax](https://sgiff.com/parallax/)
- [Merchandise](https://sgiff.com/merchandise/) - Shop our merchandise at SGIFF.
- [SGIFF Industry Days](https://sgiff.com/industry-days/)
- [Asian Producers Network](https://sgiff.com/asian-producers-network/) - The Asian Producers Network is a platform for emerging producers from the region to deepen dialogue and discover opportunities for collaboration.
- [Press Office](https://sgiff.com/press-office/)
- [SGIFF Pro Pitching Forum](https://sgiff.com/pitching-forum/)
- [Festival Team](https://sgiff.com/festival-team/) - Meet the SGIFF festival team behind this year's edition of the Singapore International Film Festival.
- [Partners](https://sgiff.com/sponsors/)
- [Off-Screen Events](https://sgiff.com/forums-events/)
- [Explore by Festival Section](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/) - With over 100 films from more than 50 countries, SGIFF warmly invites you to its 37th edition, taking place from 21 October to 1 November 2026.
- [Sony Cinema Experience](https://sgiff.com/sony-cinema-experience/)
- [SGIFF Film Fund](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-film-fund/)
- [Off Campus](https://sgiff.com/off-campus/) - Bite-sized encounters between selected students and film industry professionals. Learn more about Off Campus.
- [About SGIFF Pro](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-pro/) - For film professionals by film professionals. SGIFF Pro gathers SGIFF's industry initiatives under one umbrella—rebranded from SGIFF Film Academy.
- [Festival Passes](https://sgiff.com/festival-passes/) - Explore our Festival Passes at the 36th SGIFF.
- [Silver Screen Awards](https://sgiff.com/silver-screen-awards/)
- [Cinephile Pass](https://sgiff.com/cinephile-pass/) - The Cinephile Pass lets you enjoy unlimited film screenings and cover the festival for any platform of your choice.
- [Ticketing](https://sgiff.com/ticketing/) - Important ticketing information for SGIFF 2025.
- [Explore Films](https://sgiff.com/explore-films/)
- [Be Part of SGIFF's Festival Team](https://sgiff.com/join-sgiff/) - Be part of the Singapore International Film Festival. Explore jobs, internships and volunteer opportunities. Join SGIFF today.
- [Past Editions](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/)
- [Board & Committee Members](https://sgiff.com/board-committee-members/)
- [About SGIFF](https://sgiff.com/about-sgiff/) - The largest and longest-running film event in Singapore with a focus on Asian and Southeast Asian Cinema. Learn more about SGIFF.
- [Eventive Schedule](https://sgiff.com/my-schedule/)
- [My Bookmark](https://sgiff.com/my-bookmark/)
- [My Purchase History ](https://sgiff.com/my-purchase-history/)
- [Media Pass Form](https://sgiff.com/media-pass/) - Apply for media pass accreditation at the Singapore International Film Festival.
- [Thank you for your submission!](https://sgiff.com/thank-you-for-your-guest-profile-intake-form/)
- [37th Guest Profile Intake Form (International Guests)](https://sgiff.com/guest-intake-form-international/)
- [37th Acceptance of Invitation Form](https://sgiff.com/acceptance-of-invitation-form/)
- [SGIFF Call for Entries](https://sgiff.com/call-for-entry/) - Our Call For Film Entries for the 37th SGIFF will run from 9 April to 15 June 2026. Submit your film now.
- [37th Call for Entries - Asian Feature Films (USD35)](https://sgiff.com/37th-call-for-entries-asian-feature-films/) - Submission Form for 36th Singapore International Film Festival Call for Entries for Asian Feature Films
- [Festival Ambassador](https://sgiff.com/festival-ambassador/)
- [Sgiff Pro Pass](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-pro-pass/)
- [Terms of Service](https://sgiff.com/terms-of-service/)
- [Page Not Found](https://sgiff.com/page-not-found/)
- [Audience Choice Award](https://sgiff.com/audience-choice-award/)
- [Sgiff Pro Pass Confirmation](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-pro-pass-confirmation/)
- [Merchandise Confirmation](https://sgiff.com/merchandise-confirmation/)
- [industry email send](https://sgiff.com/industry-email-send/)
- [Youth Critics Writing](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/)
- [Atlas](https://sgiff.com/atlas/)
- [NAC - Arts Education Programme](https://sgiff.com/nac-arts-education-programme/)
- [Film Immersion Programme](https://sgiff.com/film-immersion-programme/)
- [Industry Purchase Confirmation](https://sgiff.com/industry-purchase-confirmation/)
- [Industry Pass Redeem Confirmation](https://sgiff.com/industry-pass-redeem-confirmation/)
- [Industry Pass Redeem](https://sgiff.com/industry-pass-redeem/)
- [Thank you for your submission!](https://sgiff.com/thank-you-for-your-submission/)
- [Atlas Mobile](https://sgiff.com/atlas-mobile/)
- [Atlas Volume 2 Mobile](https://sgiff.com/atlas-volume-2-mobile/)
- [Confirmation](https://sgiff.com/confirmation/)
- [Atlas Volume 2](https://sgiff.com/atlas-volume-2/)
- [Film Academy Alumni](https://sgiff.com/film-academy-alumni/)

## Festival Programmes

- [Undercurrent](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/undercurrent/) - Undercurrent explores the boldest corners of cinematic art, celebrating the restive spirit of contemporary artist-filmmakers. Featuring 11 moving-image works and screen-based performances, this dynamic selection charts new waters across multidisciplinary forms.
- [Singapore Panorama](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/singapore-panorama/) - With its unwavering focus on local cinema, Singapore Panorama champions Singapore filmmakers across various stages of their careers. This year's selection presents 16 short films across three programmes.
- [Junior Explorers](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/junior-explorers/) - Junior Explorers serves as an entry point for young audiences to take their earliest steps in their cinematic journeys. The three films in this section invite us to wander through each adventure with childlike wonder.
- [Standpoint](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/standpoint/) - In Standpoint, the personal and the sociopolitical are intertwined in profoundly compelling ways. The seven films plunge into today’s most pressing debates alongside deeply intimate struggles.
- [Landmark](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/landmark/) - Landmark showcases recent restorations of seven international classics. This year's selection explores the invisible tensions between institutions and the people living in these structures, through stories of those who navigate, resist and survive them.
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/southeast-asian-short-film-competition/) - The Southeast Asian Short Film Competition celebrates the best short cinematic gems and the diverse range of creative talent from the region. This year’s selection presents 24 films across five programmes.
- [Foreground](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/foreground/) - Foreground spotlights popular cinema through the power of film genre, celebrating timeless tropes while pushing their boundaries. These 10 films deliver sensations that keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
- [Asian Feature Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/asian-feature-film-competition/) - Experience 10 defining works of the year by emerging and established Asian directors in the Asian Feature Film Competition, showcasing the full spectrum of filmmaking virtuosity in the region.
- [Horizon](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/horizon/) - Horizon offers a bird’s-eye view of contemporary world cinema, deepening our consciousness of the universal human condition and expanding our own horizons with 17 films from this year's international festival circuit.

## Films

- [The House on the Moon](https://sgiff.com/film/the-house-on-the-moon/)
- [Julián](https://sgiff.com/film/julian/) - New kid on the block Julián spends the summer with his grandmother and discovers the magic of the ocean when he decides to dress up for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
- [Brave Cat](https://sgiff.com/film/brave-cat/) - A young forest cat embarks on a courageous journey to find her mother, joined by new friends also searching for lost family.
- [Ah Girl](https://sgiff.com/film/ah-girl/) - Caught between her separated parents in 1990s Singapore, a curious seven-year-old is left to carry big emotions she has no language for. How much children see, and how little they can do, slowly comes into focus.
- [Imagination + The Rest Is My Ghost](https://sgiff.com/film/imagination-the-rest-is-my-ghost/)
- [Corporeal Forms: Four Stories](https://sgiff.com/film/corporeal-forms-four-stories/)
- [The Compression Zone](https://sgiff.com/film/the-compression-zone/)
- [PanelStory, or How a Housing Development is Born](https://sgiff.com/film/panelstory-or-how-a-housing-development-is-born/)
- [Possible Love](https://sgiff.com/film/possible-love/)
- [Encik](https://sgiff.com/film/encik/)
- [Rehearsals for a Revolution](https://sgiff.com/film/rehearsals-for-a-revolution/) - Through five generations of personal stories, this documentary reveals how memories of resistance survive beyond political upheavals. A poetic portrait of Iran’s ongoing struggle, it explores storytelling and everyday acts of defiance as quiet forms of revolution.
- [9 Temples to Heaven](https://sgiff.com/film/9-temples-to-heaven/) - Faced with the imminent death of his mother, a man leads three generations of his family on a single-day temple pilgrimage—where prayer meets doubt, and reason wrestles with superstition.
- [Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava](https://sgiff.com/film/baby-jackfruit-baby-guava/) - With humour and heart, a queer filmmaker turns the camera on his family, revealing how love, identity and belonging are reshaped in contemporary Vietnam.
- [Adrift/A Rift](https://sgiff.com/film/adrift-a-rift/)
- [Through the Cracks](https://sgiff.com/film/through-the-cracks/)
- [They Made Monsters](https://sgiff.com/film/they-made-monsters/)
- [Golden Island](https://sgiff.com/film/golden-island/)
- [Nien](https://sgiff.com/film/nien/)
- [Vintage Violence](https://sgiff.com/film/vintage-violence/)
- [On Memories of Countless Days Away](https://sgiff.com/film/on-memories-of-countless-days-away/)
- [Everytime](https://sgiff.com/film/everytime/)
- [Mariinka](https://sgiff.com/film/mariinka/) - The lives of childhood neighbours—a promising boxer, a young orphan and four brothers—intersect, implode and diverge across a decade of war in this stirring documentary of the battle in Mariinka, a destroyed city in eastern Ukraine.
- [Dazing Gaze](https://sgiff.com/film/dazing-gaze/)
- [32 Meters](https://sgiff.com/film/32-meters/) - In central Anatolia, a woman shares her love of competitive shooting with her friends. While training begins in earnest for an upcoming competition, they face continued dismissal by the men in their community and are subject to demeaning limitations.
- [The Invisibles](https://sgiff.com/film/the-invisibles/) - Misadventures ensue as a protective single father and his three daughters—the youngest of whom is invisible—venture from their secluded life on a quiet island to Tokyo to meet the girls’ estranged grandmother, a famous actress who has taken ill.
- [Josephine](https://sgiff.com/film/josephine/)
- [The Unknown](https://sgiff.com/film/the-unknown/)
- [Zoom In, Zoom Out](https://sgiff.com/film/zoom-in-zoom-out/)
- [Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India](https://sgiff.com/film/lagaan-once-upon-a-time-in-india/)
- [The Spiral](https://sgiff.com/film/the-spiral/)
- [Paper Tiger](https://sgiff.com/film/paper-tiger/)
- [Look Back](https://sgiff.com/film/look-back/)
- [September Afternoon](https://sgiff.com/film/september-afternoon/)
- [Vertiginous](https://sgiff.com/film/vertiginous/)
- [My Name Ain't Suzie](https://sgiff.com/film/my-name-aint-suzie/)
- [Blue Days](https://sgiff.com/film/blue-days/)
- [Mayilaa](https://sgiff.com/film/mayilaa/)
- [Coast to Coast](https://sgiff.com/film/coast-to-coast/)
- [Elephants in the Fog](https://sgiff.com/film/elephants-in-the-fog/) - Pirati, from the ancient third-gender Kinnar community in Nepal, is torn between searching for her missing daughter and the city life she longs for with her lover.
- [Amazomania](https://sgiff.com/film/amazomania/) - A 1996 expedition to the Amazon rainforest to make contact with the Korubo people yields huge professional success for journalist Erling Söderström. He meets the tribe again three decades later, only to be confronted by the impact of his ignorance.
- [What Remains at Dawn](https://sgiff.com/film/what-remains-at-dawn/)
- [Subterranea](https://sgiff.com/film/subterranea/)
- [The Assassin(s)](https://sgiff.com/film/the-assassins/)
- [RIP ME, LOL](https://sgiff.com/film/rip-me-lol/)
- [Four Seasons in Java](https://sgiff.com/film/four-seasons-in-java/) - In this atmospheric magical realist drama, a Javanese woman is released after 20 years in prison and returns to her hometown. Her unwanted presence forces her to face the four seasons of her past and confront the village’s covert powers and injustice.
- [In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones](https://sgiff.com/film/in-which-annie-gives-it-those-ones/)
- [Surface Tension](https://sgiff.com/film/surface-tension/)
- [All of a Sudden](https://sgiff.com/film/all-of-a-sudden/)
- [You Dreamt You Saw Yourself But Couldn’t See Your Face](https://sgiff.com/film/you-dreamt-you-saw-yourself-but-couldnt-see-your-face/)
- [Hanabi](https://sgiff.com/film/fire-flower/)
- [In Sum](https://sgiff.com/film/in-sum/)
- [Fruits of Despair](https://sgiff.com/film/fruits-of-despair/)
- [Compact Disc](https://sgiff.com/film/compact-disc/)
- [Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me](https://sgiff.com/film/gazas-twins-come-back-to-me/) - Forcibly separated from her premature twins in a hospital at the start of the Gaza war, a mother juggles between raising four small children, attempting to reunite with her babies, and survival in the midst of a brutal siege.
- [Rose](https://sgiff.com/film/rose/)
- ["Vaterland" or A Bule Named Yanto](https://sgiff.com/film/vaterland-or-a-bule-named-yanto/)
- [A Gentle Breeze](https://sgiff.com/film/a-gentle-breeze/)
- [Shadows](https://sgiff.com/film/shadows/)
- [What Do You Seek in the Dark?](https://sgiff.com/film/what-do-you-seek-in-the-dark/)
- [A Tree](https://sgiff.com/film/a-tree/)
- [Her Silence](https://sgiff.com/film/her-silence/)
- [Kiss Me Climax](https://sgiff.com/film/kiss-me-climax/)
- [Singaporeans at Gyeongbokgung Palace](https://sgiff.com/film/singaporeans-at-gyeongbokgung-palace/)
- [Everything's Peachy](https://sgiff.com/film/everythings-peachy/)
- [Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma](https://sgiff.com/film/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/)
- [La Bola Negra](https://sgiff.com/film/the-black-ball/)
- [The Diary of a Chambermaid](https://sgiff.com/film/the-diary-of-a-chambermaid/)
- [REANIMATOR](https://sgiff.com/film/reanimator/)
- [Prosecution](https://sgiff.com/film/prosecution/) - Amid a rise in far-right extremism and racially motivated attacks, Seyo Kim, a young German-Korean state prosecutor, impartially executes the law. But when a masked individual attempts to set her on fire, her engagement with the law becomes personal.
- [Orang Minyak](https://sgiff.com/film/orang-minyak/)
- [No Good Men](https://sgiff.com/film/no-good-men/) - In Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return, a tenacious camerawoman’s career, relationships, family and freedom are thrown into uncertainty. She must decide what is worth holding on to and what she has to leave behind.
- [Macho Mystic Meltdown Chapter 2: Monster; She Wrote](https://sgiff.com/film/macho-mystic-meltdown-chapter-2-monster-she-wrote/)
- [Macho Dancer](https://sgiff.com/film/macho-dancer/)
- [She Said](https://sgiff.com/film/she-said/)
- [Singapore God](https://sgiff.com/film/singapore-god/)
- [Son Of A](https://sgiff.com/film/son-of-a/)
- [The Bovine Comedy](https://sgiff.com/film/the-bovine-comedy/)
- [The Burning Giants](https://sgiff.com/film/the-burning-giants/) - Along the Thai-Myanmar border, a mysterious illness marks Karen bodies with burns and an activist is killed for defending his village’s land, all while a toxic haze spreads across Western Thailand.
- [The End of It](https://sgiff.com/film/the-end-of-it/)
- [The Fever](https://sgiff.com/film/the-fever/)
- [The Ink-Stained Hand and the Missing Thumb](https://sgiff.com/film/the-ink-stained-hand-and-the-missing-thumb/) - Toll operators and lovers Santosh and Rajji spend their days waiting and working in decrepit booths. A tragic accident upturns their quiet lives in this magical realist love story of grief and acceptance.
- [Tropenkolder](https://sgiff.com/film/tropenkolder/)
- [We Are Aliens](https://sgiff.com/film/we-are-aliens/) - Two boys in a small Japanese town become each other’s closest friend and foil. As their lives fork in adulthood, each remembers something the other never saw, carrying scars from their life experiences.
- [The Days Off](https://sgiff.com/film/the-days-off/)
- [Tangles](https://sgiff.com/film/tangles/) - A young graphic artist returns home to care for her mother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In the process, she finds grief, comedy and first love tangled together in a household relearning how to love a person they thought they knew.
- [Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building](https://sgiff.com/film/six-months-in-a-pink-and-blue-building/) - In this coming-of-age docufiction, an eleven-year-old reckons with his queer identity while coping with his father’s HIV diagnosis amid the moral panic of the 1990s AIDS epidemic.
- [Shame and Money](https://sgiff.com/film/shame-and-money/) - A family in rural Kosovo leave their farm to find work in the capital. Mired in familial obligation, caregiving and financial precarity, their survival becomes dependent on the whims of strangers.
- [Nowhere to Lay My Eyes](https://sgiff.com/film/nowhere-to-lay-my-eyes/) - An experimental filmmaker’s reunion with her mother after a decade’s absence hides a quietly transformative quality in this ruminative work in Hong’s prolific oeuvre.
- [Fujiko](https://sgiff.com/film/fujiko/)
- [Nagi Notes](https://sgiff.com/film/nagi-notes/) - Against the backdrop of idyllic mountains and sounds of gunfire from a military camp, an architect arrives in Nagi to model for a sculpture by her ex-sister-in-law. Over eight days, both find themselves confronting unresolved loss and desires.
- [Minotaur](https://sgiff.com/film/minotaur/) - As Russia descends into war, an influential businessowner in a small town decides whose lives are disposable. His betrayals pile up, exposing the moral and political corruption that insulates the powerful while the world burns.
- [House of the Wind](https://sgiff.com/film/house-of-the-wind/)
- [Filipiñana](https://sgiff.com/film/filipinana/)
- [Sleep No More](https://sgiff.com/film/sleep-no-more/)
- [Cageman](https://sgiff.com/film/cageman/)
- [Flame of the Forest](https://sgiff.com/film/flame-of-the-forest/)
- [Low-Hanging Fruit](https://sgiff.com/film/low-hanging-fruit/)
- [Amores Perros](https://sgiff.com/film/amores-perros/)
- [Daphne as Woman (Crying)](https://sgiff.com/film/daphne-as-woman-crying/)
- [It's Not Sweet](https://sgiff.com/film/its-not-sweet/)
- [Ashes and Echoes](https://sgiff.com/film/ashes-and-echoes/)
- [Local Sensations](https://sgiff.com/film/local-sensations/)
- [Habitare](https://sgiff.com/film/habitare/)
- [Incident on the Mountain](https://sgiff.com/film/incident-on-the-mountain/)
- [Kara: The Burning Woman](https://sgiff.com/film/kara-the-burning-woman/)
- [Burn](https://sgiff.com/film/burn/) - Taken in by a tribe of lost adolescents, a runaway girl finds a new existence amid freedom and despair. This explosive feature pulls no aesthetic punches, serving up the smouldering, sparkling ruins of youthful abandon in a mixed-media feast.

## Forums

- [Acting in Singapore, Acting from Singapore](https://sgiff.com/forum/acting-in-singapore-acting-from-singapore/) - Step behind the curtain with Singapore’s film actors in a candid roundtable hosted by Janice Koh. Uncover the realities of building a screen career, performing for global audiences and what it means to belong in local cinema today.
- [Transforming the Local](https://sgiff.com/forum/transforming-the-local/) - As international money and foreign stars enter Singapore cinema, can local films remain authentic? Join Professor Lim Song Hwee and film industry experts as they discuss the reality of making movies from Singapore today.
- [In Conversation With Eugene Kotlyarenko, Kiko Mizuhara and Cole Sprouse](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-eugene-kotlyarenko-kiko-mizuhara-and-cole-sprouse/) - Join director Eugene Kotlyarenko alongside renowned actors Kiko Mizuhara and Cole Sprouse for an exclusive dialogue session on their latest feature film, Vintage Violence, and the creative inspirations behind their on and off-screen careers.
- [In Conversation With Shim Eun-kyung](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-shim-eun-kyung/) - Join acclaimed South Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung as she discusses her evolution from prominent child star to history-making, award-winning international lead across both Korean and Japanese cinema in this exclusive dialogue session.
- [In Conversation With Anthony Wong](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-anthony-wong/) - Join Hong Kong veteran actor Anthony Wong for an exclusive dialogue on his remarkable four-decade long acting career, his creative journey in an evolving global entertainment landscape — and what keeps him thriving today.
- [In Conversation With Peter Chan](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-peter-chan/) - Join master filmmaker Peter Chan for an exclusive dialogue on his four-decade cinematic legacy, as he shares insights on blending commercial success with artistic vision, and the future of Chinese-language and pan-Asian cinema.
- [In Conversation With Aamir Khan](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-aamir-khan/) - Join SGIFF Screen Icon Award recipient Aamir Khan as he reflects on a four-decade filmmaking career of groundbreaking Indian cinema classics. In this exclusive dialogue, the Indian cinema icon will share rare insights into his journey as a pioneer behind and in front of the camera.
- [In Conversation With Hirokazu Koreeda](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-hirokazu-koreeda/) - Join SGIFF Cinema Honorary Award recipient Hirokazu Koreeda for an intimate journey through over three decades of filmmaking. In this exclusive dialogue, the Japanese master will discuss his deeply humanist approach to storytelling, exploring the nuances of memory, grief, and marginality.

## Press

- [SGIFF 2025 Breaks Box Office Record with 44 Sold-Out Screenings and A 33% Increase in Tickets Sold](https://sgiff.com/press-office/sgiff-2025-breaks-box-office-record-with-44-sold-out-screenings-and-a-33-increase-in-tickets-sold/)
- [SGIFF 2025 Unveils Full Festival Line-Up, Spotlighting Female-Driven Stories and Global Voices](https://sgiff.com/press-office/sgiff-2025-unveils-full-festival-line-up-spotlighting-female-driven-stories-and-global-voices/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival 2025 Opens with Record Ticket Sales and Shu Qi’s Directorial Debut Girl](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-2025-opens-with-record-ticket-sales-and-shu-qis-directorial-debut-girl/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) Announces New Festival Dates for Its 37th Edition in 2026](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-sgiff-announces-new-festival-dates-for-its-37th-edition-in-2026/)
- [36th Singapore International Film Festival Champions Local Voices Amid a Transforming Cultural Landscape ](https://sgiff.com/press-office/36th-singapore-international-film-festival-champions-local-voices-amid-a-transforming-cultural-landscape/)
- [Empowering Southeast Asian Voices: Singapore International Film Festival Awards S$125,000 to Documentary and Short Film Projects](https://sgiff.com/press-office/sgiff-film-fund-2025-announcement/) - SGIFF is proud to announce the recipients of the SGIFF Film Fund 2025. This year, a total of S$125,000 will be awarded to seven exceptional projects.
- [The 32nd Singapore International Film Festival Kickstarters Call for Film Entries & Open Applications for the Southeast Asian Producers Network for the First Time](https://sgiff.com/press-office/the-32nd-singapore-international-film-festival-kickstarters-call-for-film-entries-open-applications-for-the-southeast-asian-producers-network-for-the-first-time/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Reveals Its 2021 SGIFF Film Academy Mentors](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-reveals-its-2021-sgiff-film-academy-mentors/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) supports the vibrant tapestry of Southeast Asian Cinema through its Film Fund Recipients.](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-sgiff-supports-the-vibrant-tapestry-of-southeast-asian-cinema-through-its-film-fund-recipients/)
- [Singapore Titles Land Record-breaking Nominations at 34th Edition of Singapore International Film Festival in 25 Years](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-titles-land-record-breaking-nominations-at-34th-edition-of-singapore-international-film-festival-in-25-years/)
- [34th Edition of Singapore International Film Festival Brings Back Prestigious Film Awards, Spices Up Festival Programming with Award-Winning Films](https://sgiff.com/press-office/34th-edition-of-singapore-international-film-festival-brings-back-prestigious-film-awards-spices-up-festival-programming-with-award-winning-films/)
- [Malaysian Gem TIGER STRIPES Shines Bright at the 34th Singapore International Film Festival Amidst Star-Studded Red Carpet Appearances](https://sgiff.com/press-office/malaysian-gem-tiger-stripes-shines-bright-at-the-34th-singapore-international-film-festival-amidst-star-studded-red-carpet-appearances/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Comes to A Triumphant Close With 15 Awards And 50 Nominations at its Silver Screen Awards, Highest Ticket Sales since 2014](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-comes-to-a-triumphant-close-with-15-awards-and-50-nominations-at-its-silver-screen-awards-highest-ticket-sales-since-2014/)
- [35th Singapore International Film Festival Closes with Record-breaking Box Office, Celebrates Excellence in Asian Cinema at Silver Screen Awards](https://sgiff.com/press-office/35th-sgiff-silver-screen-awards-2024/)
- [First Look: 35th Singapore International Film Festival opens with Stranger Eyes by Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua, honours Jafar Panahi with Cinema Honorary Award](https://sgiff.com/press-office/first-look-35th-singapore-international-film-festival-opens-with-stranger-eyes-by-singaporean-director-yeo-siew-hua-honours-jafar-panahi-with-cinema-honorary-award/) - First Look: 35th SGIFF opens with Stranger Eyes by Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua, honours Jafar Panahi with Cinema Honorary Award.
- [35th Singapore International Film Festival Unveils Full Programme With 105 Films from 45 Countries, Celebrates Asian Voices with Over 80% Asian Lineup](https://sgiff.com/press-office/35th-sgiff-programme-lineup-2024/) - 35th SGIFF Unveils Full Programme With 105 Films from 45 Countries, Celebrates Asian Voices with Over 80% Asian Lineup.
- [Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) champions new, innovative voices in Southeast Asian cinema through its 2024 Film Fund Recipients.](https://sgiff.com/press-office/sgiff-film-fund-grant-2024/) - Announcing the SGIFF Film Fund 2024 recipients. A total of S$140,000 will be awarded to seven documentaries and short films from across Southeast Asia.
- [Singapore International Film Festival Announces Winners of the 2020 Silver Screen Awards](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-announces-winners-of-the-2020-silver-screen-awards/)
- [Call for entries - Singapore International Film Festival Film Fund increases the number of film grants for 2021](https://sgiff.com/press-office/call-for-entries-singapore-international-film-festival-film-fund-increases-the-number-of-film-grants-for-2021/)
- [31st Singapore International Film Festival in Its First-ever Hybrid Model Concludes Successfully with 30 Sold-Out Screenings](https://sgiff.com/press-office/31st-singapore-international-film-festival-in-its-first-ever-hybrid-model-concludes-successfully-with-30-sold-out-screenings/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Continues to Drive Southeast Asian Works With Its Selection of Film Fund Recipients](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-continues-to-drive-southeast-asian-works-with-its-selection-of-film-fund-recipients/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Appoints Thong Kay Wee As New Programme Director](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-appoints-thong-kay-wee-as-new-programme-director/)
- [Moonlight Cinema, A Free Public Cinema Series by the Singapore International Film Festival Screens on 20 and 22 August 2021](https://sgiff.com/press-office/moonlight-cinema-a-free-public-cinema-series-by-the-singapore-international-film-festival-screens-on-20-and-22-august-2021/)
- [Lei Yuan Bin’s ‘Baby Queen’ To Anchor SGIFF’s Annual Fundraiser](https://sgiff.com/press-office/lei-yuan-bins-baby-queen-to-anchor-sgiffs-annual-fundraiser/)
- [Championing Southeast Asian Film – Singapore International Film Festival announces 2022 Film Fund Recipients](https://sgiff.com/press-office/championing-southeast-asian-film-singapore-international-film-festival-announces-2022-film-fund-recipients/)
- [32nd Singapore International Film Festival Celebrates the Enduring Joy of Cinema with New Perspectives](https://sgiff.com/press-office/32nd-singapore-international-film-festival-celebrates-the-enduring-joy-of-cinema-with-new-perspectives/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Announces Forum Programme, Special Feature of ‘Scene Unseen’](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-announces-forum-programme-special-feature-of-scene-unseen/)
- [33rd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) Concludes First Post-Pandemic Edition](https://sgiff.com/press-office/33rd-singapore-international-film-festival-sgiff-concludes-first-post-pandemic-edition/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Announces Winners of the 2021 Silver Screen Awards](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-announces-winners-of-the-2021-silver-screen-awards/)
- [32nd Singapore International Film Festival Caps Off Another Successful Edition With 40 Sold-Out Screenings](https://sgiff.com/press-office/32nd-singapore-international-film-festival-caps-off-another-successful-edition-with-40-sold-out-screenings/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival Announces Recipients of Film Grants](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-announces-recipients-of-film-grants/)
- [Singapore International Film Festival appoints Executive Director in Key Structural Change](https://sgiff.com/press-office/singapore-international-film-festival-appoints-executive-director-in-key-structural-change/)
- [31st SGIFF Call For Entry](https://sgiff.com/press-office/31st-sgiff-call-for-entry/)
- [Call for entries - Singapore International Film Festival Film Fund for 2022](https://sgiff.com/press-office/call-for-entries-singapore-international-film-festival-film-fund-for-2022/)
- [SGIFF Film Club: Intimate sessions to explore new perspectives & discuss films coming this june!](https://sgiff.com/press-office/sgiff-film-club-intimate-sessions-to-explore-new-perspectives-discuss-films-coming-this-june/)
- [33rd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) Continues to Drive New Agenda for Change](https://sgiff.com/press-office/33rd-singapore-international-film-festival-sgiff-continues-to-drive-new-agenda-for-change/)
- [Call for entries - Singapore International Film Festival opens film grant applications for 2021](https://sgiff.com/press-office/call-for-entries-singapore-international-film-festival-opens-film-grant-applications-for-2021/)
- [The 33rd Singapore International Film Festival Opens Its Call For Entry! Now Welcomes Asian Film Entries, and Applications for its Film Academy Programme.](https://sgiff.com/press-office/the-33rd-singapore-international-film-festival-opens-its-call-for-entry-now-welcomes-asian-film-entries-and-applications-for-its-film-academy-programme/)

## Youth Critics Writings

- [Labyrinthine Longings in Dreaming & Dying](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/labyrinthine-longings-in-dreaming-dying/) - Singaporean director Nelson Yeo’s debut feature Dreaming & Dying (2023) delves into the complexities of human relationships in its portrayal of three middle-aged adults who yearn for connection.
- [The Salvation of a Spanning/Spinning City: Drugs as Messiah in Critical Zone](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-salvation-of-a-spanning-spinning-city-drugs-as-messiah-in-critical-zone/) - There is no point in living, and there is no point in dying. Such is the fact of life in Critical Zone (2023), Ali Ahmadzadeh’s fourth feature which won the coveted Golden Leopard Award at 2023’s Locarno Film Festival.
- [Everything Comes Full Circle in Monisme](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/everything-comes-full-circle-in-monisme/) - Riar Rizaldi’s Monisme (2023) is a vicious cycle of destruction. Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia’s most active and deadly volcanos, is the film’s central symbol of both life and destruction.
- [The Soft In-betweens of Asian Masculinity in Tomorrow Is A Long Time](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-soft-in-betweens-of-asian-masculinity-in-tomorrow-is-a-long-time/) - Less is truly more in Jow Zhi Wei’s Tomorrow Is A Long Time (2023). Filled more with pause than movement, the pertinent messages in the film lie not in what is said but what is not.
- [Gallery: Is an Immersive Experience Necessarily a Good One?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/gallery-is-an-immersive-experience-necessarily-a-good-one/)
- [The Political, The Personal & The Ugly Truth](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-political-the-personal-the-ugly-truth/)
- [Programme 3: Strictly for those with an identity crisis, so basically everyone](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/programme-3-strictly-for-those-with-an-identity-crisis-so-basically-everyone/)
- [An Ode to Lady M](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/an-ode-to-lady-m/)
- [What Dreams Are Made Of](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-dreams-are-made-of/)
- [Morrison : A magical, conflicted examination of Thailand’s washed-out history with the US military](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/morrison-a-magical-conflicted-examination-of-thailands-washed-out-history-with-the-us-military/)
- [Hesitation Wound : Messy Moralities in Meditative Jury Drama](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/hesitation-wound-messy-moralities-in-meditative-jury-drama/)
- [Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell : An uncomfortable exercise in metamorphosis?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/inside-the-yellow-cocoon-shell-an-uncomfortable-exercise-in-metamorphosis/)
- [Every Love Story… Is A Ghost Story?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/every-love-story-is-a-ghost-story/)
- [Finding Love; Lost](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/finding-love-lost/)
- [A spiritual coming-of-age](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-spiritual-coming-of-age/)
- [329: Remembering the 1976 massacre](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/329-remembering-the-1976-massacre/)
- [This is Home, Surely?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/this-is-home-surely/)
- [What They Talk About When They Talk About Programming](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-they-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-programming/)
- [Shred of Life – My Father After Dinner ???](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/shred-of-life-my-father-after-dinner/)
- [Boats and Narratives: Afloat, Adrift, Astray?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/boats-and-narratives-afloat-adrift-astray/)
- [Tales of Strangers](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/tales-of-strangers/)
- [From Gosford to Downton, Learning from Lord Julian Fellowes](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/from-gosford-to-downton-learning-from-lord-julian-fellowes/)
- [“If the government says it’s a hoax, then it’s a hoax!”](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/if-the-government-says-its-a-hoax-then-its-a-hoax/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition: On Dreams](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/southeast-asian-short-film-competition-on-dreams/)
- [The Relentless Modern Routine & The Constant Want For More](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-relentless-modern-routine-the-constant-want-for-more/)
- [Let Us Put Ourselves to Rest: SGIFF 2020 and Explorations in Repair](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/let-us-put-ourselves-to-rest-sgiff-2020-and-explorations-in-repair/)
- [Notes on the Afterlife](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/notes-on-the-afterlife/)
- [Fragments of time and space](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/fragments-of-time-and-space/)
- [Forms of Loss](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/forms-of-loss/)
- [The Invisible People](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-invisible-people/)
- [Contemplating the Inevitability of Death and Loss in A Journey in Spring](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/contemplating-the-inevitability-of-death-and-loss-in-a-journey-in-spring/)
- [Call Me By My Name: A Reclamation of Name and Identity in Valli](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/call-me-by-my-name-a-reclamation-of-name-and-identity-in-valli/)
- [Speaking Imperfectly without Fear in Snow in Midsummer](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/speaking-imperfectly-without-fear-in-snow-in-midsummer/)
- [The Sound of Sorrow in Nicole Midori Woodford’s Last Shadow At First Light](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-sound-of-sorrow-in-nicole-midori-woodfords-last-shadow-at-first-light/)
- [The Delicate Frames Of Grief](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-delicate-frames-of-grief/)
- [Through the Looking Glass: The Tenants' Surrealist & Phantasmagorical Vision of the South Korean Economic Crisis](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/through-the-looking-glass-the-tenants-surrealist-phantasmagorical-vision-of-the-south-korean-economic-crisis/)
- [So Close, Yet so Far](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/so-close-yet-so-far/)
- [Reclaiming the Personal](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/reclaiming-the-personal/)
- [‘Mad Prophet’ of Luzon Uncovers a Nuclear Waste Barrel in Disputed Seas](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/mad-prophet-of-luzon-uncovers-a-nuclear-waste-barrel-in-disputed-seas/)
- [Getting Her Mantou: Joan Chen Looks Back on Her Career](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/getting-her-mantou-joan-chen-looks-back-on-her-career/)
- [Dialogue with the Living and the Dead: Rithy Panh’s Masterclass](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/dialogue-with-the-living-and-the-dead-rithy-panhs-masterclass/)
- [Brillante and Raymund: Keeping it Real](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/brillante-and-raymund-keeping-it-real/)
- [What filmmakers have to consider (and feel) when exploring representation and identity in film](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-filmmakers-have-to-consider-and-feel-when-exploring-representation-and-identity-in-film/)
- [Something we lost and why it matters to Programme 1 of the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/something-we-lost-and-why-it-matters-to-programme-1-of-the-southeast-asian-short-film-competition/)
- [Speed Dates in the Cinema](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/speed-dates-in-the-cinema/)
- [Indonesia: My Special Place](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/indonesia-my-special-place/)
- [The Weight of a Place](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-weight-of-a-place/)
- [Lost in Another City](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/lost-in-another-city/)
- [Of Myth and Money](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/of-myth-and-money/)
- [26 Nov 2016: SGIFF On The Ground](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/26-nov-2016-sgiff-on-the-ground/)
- [The Misunderstood – Signified or the Signifier?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-misunderstood-signified-or-the-signifier/)
- [Freeze: The Disquieting Miscibility of Love and Hate](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/freeze-the-disquieting-miscibility-of-love-and-hate/)
- [Kinship: Recapturing SEA](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/kinship-recapturing-sea/)
- [Of Labels and Truth](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/of-labels-and-truth/)
- [Interview with Che Tagyamon, Director of Lola Loleng](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/interview-with-che-tagyamon-director-of-lola-loleng/)
- [Animation All Grown Up: Estonia’s Brand of Independent Animation](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/animation-all-grown-up-estonias-brand-of-independent-animation/)
- [24 Nov 2016 – SGIFF On The Ground](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/24-nov-2016-sgiff-on-the-ground/)
- [Introducing the Southeast Asian Short Films: Into a Different Asia](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/introducing-the-southeast-asian-short-films-into-a-different-asia/)
- [Spaces of Separation: SEA Short Film Programme 2](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/spaces-of-separation-sea-short-film-programme-2/)
- [Abdul Nizam – A Special Feature for From The Director’s Chair](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/abdul-nizam-a-special-feature-for-from-the-directors-chair/)
- [Gladys Ng (The Pursuit Of A Happy Human Life) – From The Director’s Chair](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/gladys-ng-the-pursuit-of-a-happy-human-life-from-the-directors-chair/)
- [28 Nov-4 Dec 2016 – SGIFF On The Ground Wrap Up](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/28-nov-4-dec-2016-sgiff-on-the-ground-wrap-up/)
- [Then and Now: Face Time with Filmmakers](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/then-and-now-face-time-with-filmmakers/)
- [Embracing Love: An Interview Piece with Ivan Tan](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/embracing-love-an-interview-piece-with-ivan-tan/)
- [Video, Masculinity and Power: Joko and Suerte](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/video-masculinity-and-power-joko-and-suerte/)
- [SGIFF 2017 On the Ground • Days 5 to 8 (November 27-30)](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sgiff-2017-on-the-ground-days-5-to-8-november-27-30/)
- [The Aesthetics of Growing Up – Puppy Love](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-aesthetics-of-growing-up-puppy-love/)
- [Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month: Interview with Carlo Francisco Manatad](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/jodilerks-dela-cruz-employee-of-the-month-interview-with-carlo-francisco-manatad/)
- [SGIFF 2017 ON THE GROUND • Opening Weekend Recap (November 23-26)](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sgiff-2017-on-the-ground-opening-weekend-recap-november-23-26/)
- [A Vast Edifice of Memories: Film as a Medium to Record History](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-vast-edifice-of-memories-film-as-a-medium-to-record-history/)
- [Locating Human Experiences in Film: Consideration of Space](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/locating-human-experiences-in-film-consideration-of-space/)
- [SGIFF 2017 On the Ground • Closing Weekend (December 1-3)](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sgiff-2017-on-the-ground-closing-weekend-december-1-3/)
- [Being Here](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/being-here/)
- [Why Southeast Asia?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/why-southeast-asia/)
- [The Curious Case of Disappearing Women](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-women/)
- [Getting to Know Our Southeast Asian Short Film Directors](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/getting-to-know-our-southeast-asian-short-film-directors/)
- [Interview with Nguyen Phuong Anh, Filmmaker of As I Lay Dying](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/interview-with-nguyen-phuong-anh-filmmaker-of-as-i-lay-dying/)
- [This is Home…Truly?: SEA Short Film Programme 3](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/this-is-hometruly-sea-short-film-programme-3/)
- [A Different Cinema: Introducing SEA Short Films and the Youth Jury](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-different-cinema-introducing-sea-short-films-and-the-youth-jury/)
- [Chew on This! The Youth Jury Meets the Filmmakers](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/chew-on-this-the-youth-jury-meets-the-filmmakers/)
- [When Movie Characters Die, Do They Go To Heaven?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/when-movie-characters-die-do-they-go-to-heaven/)
- [What We Run From, What We Chase](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-we-run-from-what-we-chase/)
- [The SGIFF 2019 YJCP Podcast](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-sgiff-2019-yjcp-podcast/)
- [Mary, Mary, So Contrary and the Unfamiliarity of the Familiar](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/mary-mary-so-contrary-and-the-unfamiliarity-of-the-familiar/)
- [The Space a Person Inhabits](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-space-a-person-inhabits/)
- [Symbols of Youth: The Things That Define Us](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/symbols-of-youth-the-things-that-define-us/)
- [Sunday: A Game of Seduction in Reality](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sunday-a-game-of-seduction-in-reality/)
- [21 Shades of Blue in Cobalt Blue](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/21-shades-of-blue-in-cobalt-blue/)
- [Playing with Expectations](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/playing-with-expectations/)
- [Complicating Gender Through Vietnamese Short Films](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/complicating-gender-through-vietnamese-short-films/)
- [Coming of Age: Unpacking the Southeast Asian Coming of Age Narrative](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/coming-of-age-unpacking-the-southeast-asian-coming-of-age-narrative/)
- [An Interview with Chulayarnnon Siriphol, director of Birth of Golden Snail](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/an-interview-with-chulayarnnon-siriphol-director-of-birth-of-golden-snail/)
- [An Extraordinary Day in South East Asia](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/an-extraordinary-day-in-south-east-asia/)
- [Visual Density in Diary of Cattle](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/visual-density-in-diary-of-cattle/)
- [Tradition in the 21st Century: Navigating the Southeast Asian Female Experience](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/tradition-in-the-21st-century-navigating-the-southeast-asian-female-experience/)
- [The Mechanics of Taste: What Food Brings to the Table](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-mechanics-of-taste-what-food-brings-to-the-table/)
- [The Meta Age](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-meta-age/)
- [The Consequences of Intimacy](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-consequences-of-intimacy/)
- [Experimentations with Filmic Reality](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/experimentations-with-filmic-reality/)
- [Architecture of the Toilet](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/architecture-of-the-toilet/)
- [“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside”: On Youth](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/grown-ups-dont-look-like-grown-ups-on-the-inside-on-youth/)
- [What the Absurd Invites](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-the-absurd-invites/)
- [This is Acting: Performance in Life and Performance in Art](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/this-is-acting-performance-in-life-and-performance-in-art/)
- [The Case for Slow Cinema](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-case-for-slow-cinema/)
- [Sidestepping Skipping Through a Chaotic World](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sidestepping-skipping-through-a-chaotic-world/)
- [A Modern Love, A Modern Death](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-modern-love-a-modern-death/)
- [Par for the Course: To Be Asleep to That Which Rots You](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/par-for-the-course-to-be-asleep-to-that-which-rots-you/)
- [The Pangs of Life](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-pangs-of-life/)
- [Sweet, Salty’s Bittersweet: A Free Write](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/sweet-saltys-bittersweet-a-free-write/)
- [From an Alien’s Eye: A Literature Review of Humanity in 17 Visual Artefacts](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/from-an-aliens-eye-a-literature-review-of-humanity-in-17-visual-artefacts/)
- [A Cinema of Revolt](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-cinema-of-revolt/)
- [Subverting Culture Without Tokenism: The Significance of Meat](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/subverting-culture-without-tokenism-the-significance-of-meat/)
- [Holding Hands and Laughing Atop Eggshells](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/holding-hands-and-laughing-atop-eggshells/)
- [Still Life on Film; Pham Thien An’s Stay Awake, Be Ready](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/still-life-on-film-pham-thien-ans-stay-awake-be-ready/)
- [The Mountain & The Document](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-mountain-the-document/)
- [Finding Home, Building Home](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/finding-home-building-home/)
- [Against the Grain: Estrangement and Belonging in I’m Not Your F***ing Stereotype](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/against-the-grain-estrangement-and-belonging-in-im-not-your-fing-stereotype/)
- [In honour of darkness, silence, and nothingness: Lin Htet Aung’s Estate](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/in-honour-of-darkness-silence-and-nothingness-lin-htet-aungs-estate/)
- [The loss of innocence](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-loss-of-innocence/)
- [‘We were at a wedding’: On Kin Wai Yam’s Pulang](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/we-were-at-a-wedding-on-kin-wai-yams-pulang/)
- [Without a body, what’s there to love?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/without-a-body-whats-there-to-love/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 3: What We Are Forced To Be](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/southeast-asian-short-film-competition-programme-3-what-we-are-forced-to-be/)
- [The Afterlives of Calamity](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-afterlives-of-calamity/)
- [Working | Relaxing](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/working-relaxing/)
- [Coffee at Arm’s Length](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/coffee-at-arms-length/)
- [The banes and banes of being a woman in Southeast Asia](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-banes-and-banes-of-being-a-woman-in-southeast-asia/)
- [Search for your voice, against the trembling wall](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/search-for-your-voice-against-the-trembling-wall/)
- [Grief](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/grief/)
- [Here, at the Fraying Edge: On Marginality](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/here-at-the-fraying-edge-on-marginality/)
- [Buddhism in Southeast Asian Film](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/buddhism-in-southeast-asian-film/)
- [UNRULY FORM](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/unruly-form/)
- [Untethering the Past: Radical Applications of the Archive](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/untethering-the-past-radical-applications-of-the-archive/)
- [The Center Cannot Hold: Filmmaking Against Anthropocentrism, Against Empire](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-center-cannot-hold-filmmaking-against-anthropocentrism-against-empire/)
- [We are the children of Southeast Asia](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/we-are-the-children-of-southeast-asia/)
- [Portraits Of Faces On A Screen In ‘Himala: A Dialectic Of Our Times’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/portraits-of-faces-on-a-screen-in-himala-a-dialectic-of-our-times/)
- [Idle Worship: ‘Grandma’s Broken Leg’ by Huynh Công Nhớ](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/idle-worship-grandmas-broken-leg-by-huynh-cong-nho/)
- [‘Blinded By The Light’ Film Review: The Reluctant Artist Pays a Tortured Homage to His Art](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/blinded-by-the-light-film-review-the-reluctant-artist-pays-a-tortured-homage-to-his-art/)
- [Review of ‘{if your bait can sing, the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves’: So Sing Your Song of Re-Enchantment, So See but at an Angle](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/review-of-if-your-bait-can-sing-the-wild-one-will-come-like-shadows-through-leaves-so-sing-your-song-of-re-enchantment-so-see-but-at-an-angle/)
- [Stones, Schoolbuses and the Speculative: Ecofuturist narratives in Natasha Tontey’s ‘Wa’anak Witu Watu’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/stones-schoolbuses-and-the-speculative-ecofuturist-narratives-in-natasha-tonteys-waanak-witu-watu/)
- [A Modern Push; An Inevitable Traditional Pull is ‘Posterity’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-modern-push-an-inevitable-traditional-pull-is-posterity/)
- [Decoding Silence in ‘Nothing in the Cries of Cicadas <一抔黄土>’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/decoding-silence-in-nothing-in-the-cries-of-cicadas-一抔黄土/)
- [Longing, in Tandem with the Mind and Body in ‘You are 56, Still Counting and Keep Counting; I am 25’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/longing-in-tandem-with-the-mind-and-body-in-you-are-56-still-counting-and-keep-counting-i-am-25/)
- [Among A Thousand Weddings & A Million Funerals ‘Side By Side’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/among-a-thousand-weddings-a-million-funerals-side-by-side/)
- [A glimpse of the pandemic: ‘The New Faces (of Dreams and Mysteries)’](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/a-glimpse-of-the-pandemic-the-new-faces-of-dreams-and-mysteries/)
- [Review of ‘New Abnormal’ – Structural Violence in Pandemic Era Thailand](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/review-of-new-abnormal-structural-violence-in-pandemic-era-thailand/)
- [‘Distance’: A Perilous Road to Reconciliation](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/distance-a-perilous-road-to-reconciliation/)
- [Trees Remember What Men Leave Behind: A Review of ‘The Men Who Wait’ by Trương Minh Quý](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/trees-remember-what-men-leave-behind-a-review-of-the-men-who-wait-by-truong-minh-quy/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 2: Spaces of Life](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/southeast-asian-short-film-competition-programme-2-spaces-of-life/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 1: The Wild and the Wacky](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/southeast-asian-short-film-competition-programme-1-the-wild-and-the-wacky/)
- [Kindred Spirits: The Youth Jury & Critics Programme](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/kindred-spirits-the-youth-jury-critics-programme/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Programme 4: How to Belong](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/southeast-asian-short-film-competition-programme-4-how-to-belong/)
- [Takashi Miike Masterclass Recap](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/takashi-miike-masterclass-recap/)
- [For aspiring filmmakers: What comes next after your first film?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/for-aspiring-filmmakers-what-comes-next-after-your-first-film/)
- [What Awaits on the Other Side : Migration and Displacement in Society](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/what-awaits-on-the-other-side-migration-and-displacement-in-society/)
- [Displacement and Sense of Belonging in Film: An SGIFF Exploration](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/displacement-and-sense-of-belonging-in-film-an-sgiff-exploration/)
- [‘Like surrendering to a current’: On Pham Ngoc Lân’s The Unseen River](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/like-surrendering-to-a-current-on-pham-ngoc-lans-the-unseen-river/)
- [Affectless Cinema](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/affectless-cinema/)
- [All That Remains is… ruin](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/all-that-remains-is-ruin/)
- [Till Death Do Us Not Part: The Persistence of the Departed in SGIFF 2021](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/till-death-do-us-not-part-the-persistence-of-the-departed-in-sgiff-2021/)
- [Constructing Home: Bình by Ostin Fam](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/constructing-home-binh-by-ostin-fam/)
- [Uniformity](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/uniformity/)
- [The Stories We Tell Ourselves](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/)
- [Who is that animated doodle figure I see?](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/who-is-that-animated-doodle-figure-i-see/)
- [Upstream, Downstream, Past and Present](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/upstream-downstream-past-and-present/)
- [Keeping Time in Tellurian Drama](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/keeping-time-in-tellurian-drama/)
- [Polyvocality as Resistance](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/polyvocality-as-resistance/)
- [Volume 1 - Published: April 2023](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/volume-1-published-april-2023/)

## Past Editions

- [2025: SGIFF 36](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2025-sgiff-36/)
- [2021: SGIFF 32](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2021-sgiff-32/)
- [2022: SGIFF 33](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2022-sgiff-33/)
- [2024: SGIFF 35](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2024-sgiff-35/)
- [2023: SGIFF 34](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2023-sgiff-34/)
- [1995: SGIFF 8](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/1995-sgiff-8/)
- [1996: SGIFF 9](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/1996-sgiff-9/)
- [1997: SGIFF 10](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/1997-sgiff-10/)
- [1998: SGIFF 11](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/1998-sgiff-11/)
- [1999: SGIFF 12](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/1999-sgiff-12/)
- [2000: SGIFF 13](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2000-sgiff-13/)
- [2011: SGIFF 24](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2011-sgiff-24/)
- [2010: SGIFF 23](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2010-sgiff-23/)
- [2009: SGIFF 22](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2009-sgiff-22/)
- [2001: SGIFF 14](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2001-sgiff-14/)
- [2002: SGIFF 15](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2002-sgiff-15/)
- [2003: SGIFF 16](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2003-sgiff-16/)
- [2008: SGIFF 21](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2008-sgiff-21/)
- [2007: SGIFF 20](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2007-sgiff-20/)
- [2006: SGIFF 19](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2006-sgiff-19/)
- [2005: SGIFF 18](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2005-sgiff-18/)
- [2004: SGIFF 17](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2004-sgiff-17/)
- [2014: SGIFF 25](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2014-sgiff-25/)
- [2020: SGIFF 31](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2020-sgiff-31/)
- [2019: SGIFF 30](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2019-sgiff-30/)
- [2018: SGIFF 29](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2018-sgiff-29/)
- [2017: SGIFF 28](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2017-sgiff-28/)
- [2016: SGIFF 27](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2016-sgiff-27/)
- [2015: SGIFF 26](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/2015-sgiff-26/)

## Categories

- [Audience Choice Award](https://sgiff.com/film-category/audience-choice-award/)
- [Asian Feature Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/film-category/asian-feature-film/)
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/film-category/southeast-asian-short-films/)
- [Singapore Panorama](https://sgiff.com/film-category/singapore-panorama/)
- [Standpoint](https://sgiff.com/film-category/standpoint/)
- [Undercurrent](https://sgiff.com/film-category/undercurrent/)
- [Horizon](https://sgiff.com/film-category/horizon/)
- [Foreground](https://sgiff.com/film-category/foreground/)
- [Landmark](https://sgiff.com/film-category/landmark/)
- [Junior Explorers](https://sgiff.com/film-category/junior-explorers/)
- [Film Fund recipient](https://sgiff.com/film-category/film-fund-recipient/)
- [Festival Opening](https://sgiff.com/film-category/festival-opening/)
- [Festival Closing](https://sgiff.com/film-category/festival-closing/)