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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 2025](https://sgiff.com/)
- [Tutorial](https://sgiff.com/tutorial/) - Bite-sized encounters between students and film industry professionals. Learn more about Tutorial.
- [Media x Technology Showcase](https://sgiff.com/media-technology-showcase/) - A two-day interdisciplinary event bringing together filmmakers and creative practitioners at the intersection of media, technology, and business.
- [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.
- [SGIFF Industry Days](https://sgiff.com/industry-days/)
- [37th Guest Profile Intake Form (International Guests)](https://sgiff.com/guest-intake-form-international/)
- [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.
- [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.
- [SGIFF Pro Pitching Forum](https://sgiff.com/pitching-forum/) - Calling for International and Singapore projects now. The Pitching Forum is designed to connect feature film projects with international decision-makers.
- [37th Call For Entry - Pitching Forum](https://sgiff.com/pitching-forum-form/) - Our Call For Pitches for the SGIFF Pro Pitching Forum is open from 20 July to 20 August 2026, 2359 (GMT +8).
- [37th Acceptance of Invitation Form](https://sgiff.com/acceptance-of-invitation-form/)
- [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.
- [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
- [37th Call for Entries - Southeast Asian Short Films (USD15)](https://sgiff.com/37th-call-for-entries-southeast-asian-short-films/)
- [Press Office](https://sgiff.com/press-office/)
- [Festival Team](https://sgiff.com/festival-team/) - Meet the SGIFF festival team behind this year's edition of the Singapore International Film Festival.
- [SGIFF Film Fund](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-film-fund/)
- [Merchandise](https://sgiff.com/merchandise/) - Shop our merchandise at SGIFF.
- [Purchase Merchandise](https://sgiff.com/purchase-merchandise/)
- [Festival Ambassador](https://sgiff.com/festival-ambassador/)
- [Silver Screen Awards](https://sgiff.com/silver-screen-awards/)
- [Sponsors](https://sgiff.com/sponsors/)
- [Ticketing](https://sgiff.com/ticketing/) - Important ticketing information for SGIFF 2025.
- [Off-Screen Events](https://sgiff.com/forums-events/)
- [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. Apply from 7 to 30 October 2025.
- [Industry Pass Purchase](https://sgiff.com/industry-pass-purchase/)
- [Board & Committee Members](https://sgiff.com/board-committee-members/)
- [Sgiff Pro Pass](https://sgiff.com/sgiff-pro-pass/)
- [Media Pass Form](https://sgiff.com/media-pass/)
- [Festival Passes](https://sgiff.com/festival-passes/) - Explore our Festival Passes at the 36th SGIFF.
- [Explore by Festival Section](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/) - With over 110 films from more than 45 countries, SGIFF warmly invites you to its 36th edition, taking place from 26 November to 7 December 2025.
- [Reset Password Error](https://sgiff.com/reset-password-error/)
- [Festival Passes](https://sgiff.com/festival-passes-2/)
- [Lost Password](https://sgiff.com/lost-password/)
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- [Festival Schedule](https://sgiff.com/festival-schedule/)
- [Schedule](https://sgiff.com/my-schedule/)
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- [Page Not Found](https://sgiff.com/page-not-found/)
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- [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 Pass Purchase Error](https://sgiff.com/industry-pass-purchase-error/)
- [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/)
- [Past Editions](https://sgiff.com/past-edition/)
- [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/)
- [Explore Films](https://sgiff.com/explore-films/)

## Festival Programmes

- [Singapore Panorama](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/singapore-panorama/) - With its unwavering focus on local cinema, Singapore Panorama presents a selection of the latest feature and short films from both emerging and established Singapore filmmakers.
- [Horizon](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/horizon/) - Horizon offers a bird's-eye view of world cinema today, showcasing 16 diverse filmic discoveries and celebrated works from the international film festival circuit, each expanding our horizons a little further.
- [Landmark](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/landmark/) - Co-presented with the Asian Film Archive, Landmark showcases recent restorations of international classics, with a special showcase of Indian-born Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's films this year.
- [Foreground](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/foreground/) - The world of film genres—their rules, quirks and timeless tropes—occupy Foreground, which celebrates the essence and significance of popular cinema through these 12 films.
- [Undercurrent](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/undercurrent/) - Tracing uncharted territories in cinema, Undercurrent taps into the audacious innovations of experimental filmmaking today and invites you to explore the art form's limitless possibilities with 13 moving image works.
- [Asian Feature Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/asian-feature-film-competition/) - Experience bold new cinematic visions by both emerging and established Asian directors. These 10 films collectively capture the vibrant pulse of Asian cinema today.
- [Standpoint](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/standpoint/) - The personal and the sociopolitical are intertwined in profoundly compelling ways. The nine films in this section plunge headfirst into today’s most hotly debated issues alongside stories of deeply personal struggles.
- [Southeast Asian Short Film Competition](https://sgiff.com/festival-programmes/southeast-asian-short-film-competition/) - The Southeast Asian Short Film Competition highlights the best short cinematic gems from the region. This year’s selection presents 25 films across five programmes.

## Films

- [Human Resource](https://sgiff.com/film/human-resource/) - Fren’s job is to find perfect human resources. Now pregnant, she must decide whether to create one of her own.
- [Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes of High School Students](https://sgiff.com/film/writing-life-annie-ernaux-through-the-eyes-of-high-school-students/) - The classrooms of a new generation transform into vibrant forums inspired by Annie Ernaux’s powerful writing and open dialogue.
- [Arco](https://sgiff.com/film/arco/) - Ten-year-old Arco accidentally time travels from the year 2932 to 2075, where he is befriended by a lonely girl raised by a robot.
- [Silent Friend](https://sgiff.com/film/silent-friend/) - A centuries-old ginkgo tree bears witness to three kindred spirits whose curiosity about nature pushes against the limits of their era.
- [I Only Rest In The Storm](https://sgiff.com/film/i-only-rest-in-the-storm/) - An insecure Portuguese environmental engineer with a saviour complex seeks to assimilate with locals in Guinea-Bissau.
- [Waking Hours](https://sgiff.com/film/waking-hours/) - This nocturnal, immersive film offers glimpses of the daily routines of a group of migrant smugglers living on the Balkan border.
- [La Grazia](https://sgiff.com/film/la-grazia/) - An elderly man mulling over his legacy must decide between his duty to the Church or the people in his final act as Italy’s president.
- [Elenita Elena Elaine](https://sgiff.com/film/elenita-elena-elaine/)
- [Monkey](https://sgiff.com/film/monkey/)
- [The Last Swimming Reunion Before Life Happens](https://sgiff.com/film/the-last-swimming-reunion-before-life-happens/)
- [Objects Do Not Randomly Fall From The Sky](https://sgiff.com/film/objects-do-not-randomly-fall-from-the-sky/)
- [BLEAT!](https://sgiff.com/film/bleat/)
- [10s Across the Borders](https://sgiff.com/film/10s-across-the-borders/) - Meet three trailblazers of the underground ballroom scenes in Southeast Asia and their communities in this candid documentary.
- [This City Is A Battlefield](https://sgiff.com/film/this-city-is-a-battlefield/) - Revolution does not come cheaply, as a gang of anti-colonial hopefuls find present passions testing their dreams of a future.
- [Diamonds in the Sand](https://sgiff.com/film/diamonds-in-the-sand/)
- [The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts](https://sgiff.com/film/the-body-craves-impact-as-love-bursts/) - An evocative blend of performance and documentary inspired by real-life experiences of political activists in Bangkok.
- [Narrative](https://sgiff.com/film/narrative/) - This hybrid film imagines ways that survivors of state-sanctioned violence in Thailand could seek justice.
- [a flower not a flower](https://sgiff.com/film/a-flower-not-a-flower/)
- [Ponay (or You Are Not F***ing Welcome)](https://sgiff.com/film/ponay-or-you-are-not-fing-welcome/)
- [A Useful Ghost](https://sgiff.com/film/a-useful-ghost/) - In this genre-bending satire on love, politics and memory, a ghost returns to haunt a vacuum cleaner and prove her love for her living husband.
- [Amoeba](https://sgiff.com/film/amoeba/) - A crew of misfits chafe against an oppressive school environment in this empathetic portrait of youthful defiance.
- [Resurrection](https://sgiff.com/film/resurrection/) - Resurrection is Bi Gan’s love letter to cinema and a meditation on the endurance of dreams amidst fading images.
- [Proposals for the Interpretation of a Dream](https://sgiff.com/film/proposals-for-the-interpretation-of-a-dream/)
- [Sandbox](https://sgiff.com/film/sandbox/) - Blending slapstick chaos with incisive satire, a struggling Singaporean stunt school faces mayhem when wannabe superheroes arrive.
- [Queer as Punk](https://sgiff.com/film/queer-as-punk/) - Openly queer punk-rock band Shh… Diam! turns up their music against rising conservatism and political upheaval in Malaysia.
- [Rabbit Trap](https://sgiff.com/film/rabbit-trap/) - After relocating to the Welsh countryside, a couple is visited by a child who attempts to become part of their family.
- [Woman of Fire](https://sgiff.com/film/woman-of-fire/) - A middle-class Korean family is shattered by desire after they hire a country girl to be their live-in housemaid.
- [Two Travelling Aunties](https://sgiff.com/film/two-travelling-aunties/)
- [Cendol](https://sgiff.com/film/cendol/)
- [Full Month](https://sgiff.com/film/full-month/)
- [Withering Tree and Living Ashes](https://sgiff.com/film/withering-tree-and-living-ashes/)
- [The Last Rites](https://sgiff.com/film/the-last-rites/)
- [The Old Man and His Car](https://sgiff.com/film/the-old-man-and-his-car/)
- [Coda](https://sgiff.com/film/coda/) - As an alumni choir takes to the world stage, their journey raises questions about competition and growth.
- [Dream of the Red Chamber](https://sgiff.com/film/dream-of-the-red-chamber/) - A classic Chinese novel is given a new setting in 1970s Singapore, where burgeoning affections are challenged by the decline of a wealthy family.
- [A Metamorphosis](https://sgiff.com/film/a-metamorphosis/)
- [More Than Happy](https://sgiff.com/film/more-than-happy/)
- [Always](https://sgiff.com/film/always/)
- [At Home with Work](https://sgiff.com/film/at-home-with-work/)
- [The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo](https://sgiff.com/film/the-mysterious-gaze-of-the-flamingo/) - In 1982, an eleven-year-old girl in Chile comes of age with her loving queer family, who are accused of spreading a strange disease.
- [The Girls](https://sgiff.com/film/the-girls/) - A sensitive exploration of two sisters whose dreams and aspirations come up against insurmountable class barriers.
- [The Fox King](https://sgiff.com/film/the-fox-king/) - On the cusp of adulthood, a pair of fraternal twins with a telepathic connection grow apart when they meet an alluring new teacher.
- [Bouchra](https://sgiff.com/film/bouchra/) - A queer artist tries to engage with her avoidant mother in this inventively animated film.
- [Hen](https://sgiff.com/film/hen/) - A hen seeks refuge in a crumbling Greek eatery, guarding her eggs as a human tragedy unfolds.
- [Bring Him Down to a Portable Size](https://sgiff.com/film/bring-him-down-to-a-portable-size/) - Selfish and a burden all his life, Riko's brother suddenly dies. She has four days before seeing him off on his final journey.
- [Kokuho](https://sgiff.com/film/kokuho/) - Due to a lack of family connections to the kabuki establishment, a yakuza’s son struggles for decades to gain true recognition.
- [Father Mother Sister Brother](https://sgiff.com/film/father-mother-sister-brother/) - A carefully constructed triptych of stories about the relationships between adult children, their parents, and each other.
- [Rental Family](https://sgiff.com/film/rental-family/) - A lonely American actor in Tokyo steps into the lives of strangers, finding new purpose as their stories begin to shape his own.
- [Black Rabbit, White Rabbit](https://sgiff.com/film/black-rabbit-white-rabbit/) - A death in an antique shop activates a maze of possible worlds where actors, filmmakers and obsessions intertwine through cinema.
- [Cactus Pears](https://sgiff.com/film/cactus-pears/) - In this gentle queer drama, a grieving city dweller reconnects with a childhood friend and navigates traditions in his rural hometown.
- [MÍMESIS (Dreams, animals and tuning forks)](https://sgiff.com/film/mimesis-dreams-animals-and-tuning-forks/) - A performance lecture that draws unexpected connections between animal behaviours and human systems of knowledge.
- [Underground](https://sgiff.com/film/underground/) - A dancer’s movements and a tour guide’s stories reveal Japan’s subterranean histories in this poetic film.
- [Bye Bye Love](https://sgiff.com/film/bye-bye-love/) - This film is a queer reimagining of Bonnie and Clyde, set against the backdrop of 1970s countercultural Japan.
- [My Plastic Mother](https://sgiff.com/film/my-plastic-mother/)
- [Shape of Momo](https://sgiff.com/film/shape-of-momo/) - When a young woman leaves Delhi and returns to her Himalayan hometown, she grapples with its increasingly suffocating expectations.
- [The Art of Cruising](https://sgiff.com/film/the-art-of-cruising/)
- [Rasa Sayang](https://sgiff.com/film/rasa-sayang/)
- [As if to Nothing](https://sgiff.com/film/as-if-to-nothing/)
- [Whisper of the Tranquil Water](https://sgiff.com/film/whisper-of-the-tranquil-water/)
- [Matador](https://sgiff.com/film/matador/) - Almodóvar explores the link between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder in this 1986 film.
- [Hour of the Flower](https://sgiff.com/film/hour-of-the-flower/)
- [Dogma 65 (Director's Cut)](https://sgiff.com/film/dogma-65-directors-cut-2/)
- [Hair, Paper, Water...](https://sgiff.com/film/hair-paper-water/) - A home movie like no other, ensconced in the tradition of silent film, and a poetically pedagogical archive of a vanishing community.
- [The Water is Blue in Tanjong Katong](https://sgiff.com/film/the-water-is-blue-in-tanjong-katong/)
- [When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea](https://sgiff.com/film/when-lightning-flashes-over-the-sea/) - An ethereal portrait of Odesa and its travellers, cats, labourers, artists and children who go on dreaming and surviving amidst war.
- [When The Blues Goes Marching In](https://sgiff.com/film/when-the-blues-goes-marching-in/)
- [Morning Circle](https://sgiff.com/film/morning-circle/) - For the displaced, even the smallest gestures of care and intimacy are suffused with the regulating force of colonial pedagogy.
- [Funny Boy](https://sgiff.com/film/funny-boy/) - A young boy, Arjie, comes of age and navigates his sexuality amidst escalating racial tensions leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983.
- [Water](https://sgiff.com/film/water/) - A sobering look at child marriage and the fate of Hindu widows in India against the backdrop of Gandhian anti-colonialism.
- [Earth](https://sgiff.com/film/earth/) - A young Parsi girl whose Hindu nanny is wooed by two Muslim suitors bears witness to the violent Partition of India and Pakistan.
- [Riverstone](https://sgiff.com/film/riverstone/) - A police convoy stretches into a relentless yet meditative road trip in this intense study of character, conscience and conviction.
- [Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)](https://sgiff.com/film/nuestra-tierra/)
- [Lesbian Space Princess](https://sgiff.com/film/lesbian-space-princess/) - An introverted space princess must save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from Straight White Maliens in this madcap animated comedy.
- [It Was Just An Accident](https://sgiff.com/film/it-was-just-an-accident/) - A man believes he has found his torturer, setting off a journey that explores the fragility of memory and the cost of justice.
- [She's Got No Name](https://sgiff.com/film/shes-got-no-name/) - In 1940s Shanghai, a woman accused of brutally murdering her husband becomes an unlikely symbol of resistance and survival.
- [Children's Day](https://sgiff.com/film/childrens-day/)
- [Fire](https://sgiff.com/film/fire/) - Two sisters-in-law in unhappy marriages form a romantic relationship in this powerful examination of female desire and agency.
- [Emergencies](https://sgiff.com/film/emergencies/)
- [Captive Audience](https://sgiff.com/film/captive-audience/)
- [Becoming Human](https://sgiff.com/film/becoming-human/) - The guardian spirit of a cinema that is about to be demolished becomes friends with a human as she faces the prospect of rebirth.
- [Memory of Princess Mumbi](https://sgiff.com/film/memory-of-princess-mumbi/) - When Kuve visits a postwar country to make a film, he is challenged by Mumbi to work without AI and discovers life’s poetry.
- [We Learn To Breathe In Distant Places](https://sgiff.com/film/we-learn-to-breathe-in-distant-places/)
- [When The Cold Wind Blows](https://sgiff.com/film/when-the-cold-wind-blows/)
- [Southwest Corner](https://sgiff.com/film/southwest-corner/)
- [The Spectre](https://sgiff.com/film/the-spectre/)
- [Manhole](https://sgiff.com/film/manhole/)
- [Durian, Durian](https://sgiff.com/film/durian-durian/)
- [Singaporeans on the Kamo River](https://sgiff.com/film/singaporeans-on-the-kamo-river/)
- [Through Your Eyes](https://sgiff.com/film/through-your-eyes/)
- [Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts](https://sgiff.com/film/sammi-who-can-detach-his-body-parts/)
- [Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites](https://sgiff.com/film/grandma-nai-who-played-favorites/)
- [Memory Replica](https://sgiff.com/film/memory-replica/)
- [ARI-ARI (The Storyteller)](https://sgiff.com/film/ari-ari-the-storyteller/)
- [The 4PLY Clandestine System](https://sgiff.com/film/the-4ply-clandestine-system/)
- [True Love](https://sgiff.com/film/true-love/)
- [In the Valley](https://sgiff.com/film/in-the-valley/)
- [Late Fame](https://sgiff.com/film/late-fame/) - Obscure poet and post office worker Ed finds himself unexpectedly revered by a group of young artists, including a charismatic actress.
- [The Secret Agent](https://sgiff.com/film/the-secret-agent/) - A professor is on the run after locking horns with a politician who deems his department’s research a threat to his business.
- [Sentimental Value](https://sgiff.com/film/sentimental-value/) - An ageing director seeks to reconnect with his estranged adult daughters while preparing for his comeback film in their family home.
- [What Does that Nature Say to You](https://sgiff.com/film/what-does-that-nature-say-to-you/) - A poet dropping off his girlfriend at her mansion is drawn into a night of food, wine and words, where strangers grow closer.
- [Hamnet](https://sgiff.com/film/hamnet/) - Art is born of sorrow and holds the power to heal in this devastating story on the creation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
- [Girl](https://sgiff.com/film/girl/) - Caught between inherited sorrow and a longing for freedom, a young girl must navigate the shadows of a life she never chose.
- [Life After](https://sgiff.com/film/life-after/) - A disabled documentary filmmaker maps the intersection of morality, finance and politics in the rise of assisted dying policies.
- [How Dare You?](https://sgiff.com/film/how-dare-you/) - Three grade schoolers in Japan become fed up with adults causing global warming and team up to teach them a lesson.
- [The Razor's Edge](https://sgiff.com/film/the-razors-edge/) - A teenager wanders Beirut dreaming of love and life. War has ravaged the city but also sparks her unlikely bond with an older artist.
- [When the Sun is Eaten (Chi'bal K'iin)](https://sgiff.com/film/when-the-sun-is-eaten-chibal-kiin/)
- [Primate Visions; Macaque Macabre](https://sgiff.com/film/primate-visions-macaque-macabre/)
- [This Aggregate of Images that is the Universe (STARS)](https://sgiff.com/film/this-aggregate-of-images-that-is-the-universe-stars/)
- [The Arch](https://sgiff.com/film/the-arch/) - An attractive captain awakens the yearning for love in a widow and her daughter in this retelling of a Ming Dynasty folktale.
- [Rashid, the Boy from Sinjar](https://sgiff.com/film/rashid-the-boy-from-sinjar/) - A teenager rebuilds his life in post-genocide Sinjar, searching for identity and healing, carrying hope through the trauma of imprisonment.
- [Dry Leaf](https://sgiff.com/film/dry-leaf/) - A father’s quest through Georgia's crumbling football fields turns into a haunting meditation on the fading of memory and spaces.
- [Intersections](https://sgiff.com/film/intersections/) - A dreamlike yet analytical exploration of convergences between humans and animals in the city.
- [Sound of Falling](https://sgiff.com/film/sound-of-falling/) - The lives of four girls from different eras, each spending a summer on a German farm, intertwine and echo one another across time.
- [My Father's Shadow](https://sgiff.com/film/my-fathers-shadow/) - Two young brothers spend a miraculous day with their preoccupied father in Lagos, 1993; around them hangs the fate of democracy.
- [Before the Sea Forgets](https://sgiff.com/film/before-the-sea-forgets/)
- [Fresh as Daisy](https://sgiff.com/film/fresh-as-daisy/)
- [MAG MAG](https://sgiff.com/film/mag-mag/) - After the Mag Mag curse strikes her crush, Sanae’s pursuit of justice unfolds through intertwining stories of love and rejection.
- [Play](https://sgiff.com/film/play/)
- [Two Seasons, Two Strangers](https://sgiff.com/film/two-seasons-two-strangers/) - This film turns its gaze to scriptwriters, asking how lives are written, translated and transformed through cinema.
- [Vanilla](https://sgiff.com/film/vanilla/) - Eight-year-old Roberta bears witness to her family of seven spirited women dealing with the threat of having their house repossessed.
- [Lost Land](https://sgiff.com/film/lost-land/) - Two siblings must traverse perilous waters to leave their Rohingya camp in Bangladesh and reunite with their family in Malaysia.
- [Fruit](https://sgiff.com/film/fruit/)

## Forums

- [#SaveOurCinemas](https://sgiff.com/forum/saveourcinema/) - As Singapore's beloved cinemas face closure, a vital conversation emerges: how do we preserve these cultural spaces where communities gather, stories endure, and memories are made?
- [SGIFilmFeud](https://sgiff.com/forum/sgifilmfeud/) - Think you know what Singaporeans really want from the movies? Watch teams battle it out to guess audience opinions on the state of Singapore Cinema, uncovering surprising truths through humour and debate about our love for the big screen.
- [In Conversation With Tony Leung](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-tony-leung/)
- [In Conversation With Chin Han](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-chin-han/)
- [In Conversation With Youn Yuh-jung](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-youn-yuh-jung/)
- [In Conversation With Shu Qi](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-shu-qi/)
- [In Conversation With Deepa Mehta](https://sgiff.com/forum/in-conversation-with-deepa-mehta/)

## 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

- [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 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/)
- [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/)
- [Labyrinthine Longings in Dreaming & Dying](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/labyrinthine-longings-in-dreaming-dying/)
- [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/)
- [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/)
- [Everything Comes Full Circle in Monisme](https://sgiff.com/youth-critic-writings/everything-comes-full-circle-in-monisme/)
- [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/)

## Genres

- [Action/Adventure](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/action-adventure/)
- [Animation](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/animation/)
- [Comedy](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/comedy/)
- [Drama](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/drama/)
- [Experimental](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/experimental/)
- [Horror](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/horror/)
- [Non-Fiction](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/non-fiction/)
- [Romance](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/romance/)
- [Sci-Fi/Fantasy](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/sci-fi-fantasy/)
- [Suitable For All Ages](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/suitable-for-all-ages/)
- [Vibes](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/vibes/)
- [Thriller](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/thriller/)
- [Crime](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/crime/)
- [Mystery](https://sgiff.com/film-genre/mystery/)

## Interests

- [Coming of Age](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/coming-of-age/)
- [Cult](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/cult/)
- [Emerging Filmmakers](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/emerging-filmmakers/)
- [History](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/history/)
- [Magic Realism](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/magic-realism/)
- [Mental Health](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/mental-health/)
- [Postcolonialism](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/postcolonialism/)
- [Queer](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/queer/)
- [Social Issues](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/social-issues/)
- [Women-Centred Stories](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/women-centred-stories/)
- [Diaspora](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/diaspora/)
- [Supernatural](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/supernatural/)
- [Family](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/family/)
- [Nature](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/nature/)
- [Films About Filmmaking](https://sgiff.com/film-interest/films-about-filmmaking/)