Ben recently attended the 35th Singapore International Film Festival and watched a whole lot of films, and made a few new friends along the way. Listen in on his thoughts about the films, the festival programme’s overarching themes, and how beauty is a trap!!
This episode is generally spoiler-free, spoilers are marked with timestamps below!
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Timestamps
- (00:05:14) Small Hours of the Night Directed by Daniel Hui (which Ben did NOT see)
- (00:15:40) No Other Land Directed by Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
- (00:21:14) Stars in Broad Daylight directed by Ossama Mohammed
- (00:25:45) An Unfinished Film directed by Lou Ye
- (00:30:32) Jafar Panahi Conversation
- (00:34:36) Crimson Gold Directed by Jafar Panahi
- (00:35:37) The Circle Directed by Jafar Panahi
- (00:36:46 - 00:38:10) The Circle Spoiler
- (00:39:13) Viet and Nam Directed by Truong Minh Quy; + small discussion on co-productions
- (00:47:52) All Shall Be Well Directed by Ray Yeung
- (00:50:20 - 00:50:55) All Shall Be Well Spoiler
- (00:53:40) Happyend Directed by Neo Sora
- (00:58:25) By The Stream Directed by Hong Sang-soo;+ Wilson’s love of Hong
- (01:05:08) Vive l’amour Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
- (01:09:27) Stranger Eyes Directed by Yeo Siew Hua
- (01:13:54) Time to Be Strong Directed by Namkoong Sun
- (01:17:32) Ben’s Festival Highlights
- (01:18:48) Don’t Cry Butterfly Directed by Linh Duong
- (01:21:19) Universal Language Directed by Matthew Rankin
- (01:24:28) La Cocina Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
- (01:25:20) Don’t You Let Me Go Directed by Leticia Gorge & Ana Guevara
- (01:26:40) The Shrouds Directed by David Cronenberg; Our NYFF62 Dispatch episode where Eli watched it
- (01:27:40) Familiar Touch Directed by Sarah Friedland; plus a very cool fact about the film’s production process
- (01:30:55) April Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili
- (01:31:45 - 01:31:53) Brief spoiler for Kulumbegashvili’s first film, Beginning
- (01:33:05) Closing Thoughts