Date: 19 April 2014, Saturday
Time: 9pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Date: 27 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 2pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Doomsday Party<末日派对> - NC16 (Some Nudity & Sexual Scene) Five strangers’ lives will become intertwined in a bank heist gone wrong. A misunderstood college dropout, a bank clerk who’s stuck in a love triangle, a good cop suffering from Glaucoma, a widow who abandoned and a retired teacher plan to commit suicide inside the bank. The event will change their lives forever, but will they get a fresh start or to a point of no return?
Date: 19 April 2014, Saturday
Time: 11.30pm
(Midnight Screening)Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Date: 24 April 2014, Thursday
Time: 9pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
(with Director & Cast Q&A - Ho Hong & Fish Liew)A Time In Quchi
<暑假作业> - PGA Time in Quchi is the final chapter of the director’s stories about family. After his father passed away, Chang Tso Chi wanted to make a film in his father’s familiar language, hence “How are you, Dad?” was born. The next movie, “When Love Comes” (Best Picture 47th Golden Horse Awards), is a story about mothers.
Date: 20 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 11.30am
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
Letters from the South
<南方来信> - PG13 (Some Coarse Language)A collection of 6 short films from assorted ethnic Chinese directors
from South East Asia. Originally titled Homeland and Diaspora, each
director is invited to make a short film that contemplates the notion
and relationship between the Chinese Diaspora and China. Aditya
Assarat‘s Now Now Now tells the story of two cousins, one Thai, one
Chinese, and their reunion in Bangkok after not seeing each other for
many years. Royston Tan's Popiah follows one Singaporean family's annual
tradition of getting together and making Popiah. Sun Koh's Singapore
Panda portrays a Singaporean radio performer's redundancy as his company
is bought over by a Chinese corporation.
Date: 20 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 2pm
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
(with Director's Q&A - Sun Koh)Date: 24 April 2014, Thursday
Time: 7pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
(with Director's Q&A - Tan Chui Mui)
Hong Baos and Kisses
<元宵遇财神> - PG13It is Chinese New Year, a time of reunion, new clothes and glunttony. But for gym instructor Xavier Tan (Joshua Tan) and young tai tai Ping Wong (Felicia Chin), it is also a time of gain, specifically monetary gain in the form of hong baos. The two shysters partner up and pretend to be a 'couple' to convince Ping's wealthy grandmother that Ping has indeed broken off with her older French boyfriend (which she has not) and hand over a $100,000 hong bao for fulfilling the old lady's wish for Ping to have a nice Chinese boyfriend by this Chinese New Year. And as cunning and charming as Xavier and Ping are, they soon find themselves outplayed by fate and destiny as they really begin to fall in love.
Date: 20 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 4.15pm
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
(with Director & cast Q&A - Wee Li Lin & Amy Cheng)
Longing For The Rain
<春梦> - R21 (Sexual Scenes)Fang Lei is a housewife who leads a peaceful and affluent life with her husband and daughter. But her apparently perfect family life is mired by an equally unfulfilling sex life. She turns to masturbation to find sexual pleasure and begins to dream of a man who makes love to her, giving her energy and a new lease of life. She gets so addicted to him until things between them begins to spin out of control.
Date: 21 April 2014, Monday
Time: 9.30pm
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
Date: 27 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Young Style
<青春派> - PGJuran has failed the university entrance exams as he is pre-occupied with his first love. As a result, he is forced to prepare for the exams next year. During that period, he and his fellow students face not only the pressure from their studies but problems of all sorts. Unexpectedly, love blossoms in their hearts. On the coming-of-age ceremony, they shout out loud – Do you love me?
Date: 22 April 2014, Tuesday
Time: 9.30pm
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
Date: 27 April 2014, Sunday
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Past Present
<昨天> - PG13 (Some Sexual References)Past Present is an exploration of internationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tsai Ming-Liang’s life’s journey in film, both as filmgoer and maker, tracing his philosophy as a director to his childhood experience growing up in Kuching, Malaysia and the importance of moving to Taiwan in the 1970s. In this film, Tsai revisits the old cinemas that he used to frequent with his grandparents and tells the story of how he would watch two films every evening with them. With a strong sense of loss, Tsai rediscovers his past while evaluating the present in which he described as a ‘throwaway era’ where people are no longer able to value things from the past. Tsai’s colleagues and friends, from Ang Lee to Hou Hsiao-Hsien and ApichatpongWeerasethakul, and his constant collaborators like Lee Kang-Sheng and Chen Shiang-Chyi, discuss the uniqueness of his work and him as a person, in search for ever greater freedom and artistry.
Date: 25 April 2014, Friday
Time: 9pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
(with Director's Q&A - Saw Tiong Guan)The Long Goodbye
<被遗忘的时光> - PGWhen the memories of these elderly people with dementia gradually deteriorate, their family members begin to put together the old photographs and objects, trying to awake the forgotten times of their lives. Every time a story is told, a memory is slowly formed. The whole family becomes closer and they cherish their time together more.
Date: 26 April 2014, Saturday
Time: 1.30pm
Venue: The Cathay Cineplex
(with Director's Q&A - Yang Li Chou)The Singapore Chinese Film Festival runs from 17 - 27 April 2014!