The Perspectives Film Festival is back for the 7th year, bringing diverse films from all around the world, including several Singapore and Asian premieres.
Read on to find out how you can stand a chance to win tickets to two award-winning films!
This year's festival explores the theme of 'displacement', with seven films for film enthusiasts to enjoy! Characters adrift from familiar surroundings, held in contempt by others and exiled to the fringes of society. As they struggle for happiness, acceptance or simply survival, they are forced to resist their displacement, or conform and adapt.
The festival will also run several workshops and talks with a focus on creative work that explores social justice themes.
Perspectives Film Festival
Date: 16 – 19 October 2014
Venue: National Museum of Singapore / Golden Village VivoCity
Admission Fees:
- $10 (Standard)
- $8 (Students and Singapore Film Society members)
(Purchase your tickets/passes here!)
Walkabout - NC16
18 October 2014/ 1:30PM
National Museum of Singapore
[Synopsis]
Nicolas Roeg’s directorial breakthrough, Walkabout tells the survival story of a teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother (Luc Roeg) in the hauntingly beautiful and desolate Australian outback. Abandoned by their father, they roam the vast lands in search of a way back to civilisation when they meet an adolescent Aborigine (David Gulpilil) who has left home on his walkabout – a cultural rite of passage. An unlikely alliance forms, and together, they embark on a journey to reclaim the essence of home.
Loosely based on James Vance Marshall’s popular adventure novel of the same name, Walkabout identifies underlying issues of race, cultural barriers, and civilisation. The film exists between the norm and foreign, the modern and primitive, and the urban and rural, to accentuate the theme of alienation between and within the film’s characters.
Walkabout under-performed in the Australian box office but went on to become a cult classic. It was also one of the first films to provide a sensitive and in-depth portrayal of an Aboriginal character and also the first European-Australian film to bring an Aboriginal actor, Gulpilil, to international prominence. Roeg’s attention to detail as well as his unique blend of documentary style and loose narrative storytelling contribute to a timeless cinematic experience.
Suzhou River - PG
18 October 2014/ 4:30PM
National Museum of Singapore
[Synopsis]
Set against the striking backdrop of the post-industrial Suzhou River in Shanghai, the narrator falls in love with a gorgeous lady Meimei (Zhou Xun), who masquerades as a mermaid in a nightclub act. He meets a small-time crook and motorbike courier whose ill-fated paramour Mudan (also played by Zhou Xun) looks just like Meimei. Their transient lives collide and diverge in a gripping exploration of loss of identity, love and death, and truth and falsity.
Director Lou Ye’s third directorial effort Suzhou River catapulted him into the public’s eye. In casting his vision over the glitzy face of Shanghai onto the decrepit factories of its squalid waterfront, Lou successfully captures the zeitgeist of China’s material predicament and the social dislocation of its people. The seething disaffection and frustration of its opaque characters, underlined by the unflinching realities of industrialization and large-scale poverty, construct a Shanghai that is as provocative and inviting as it is enigmatic.
The tumultuous history and narrative of the film mirror Lou’s violent entrance as a legitimate voice in a new wave of 6th Generation Chinese filmmakers. Lou was banned from filmmaking for two years for submitting the film to the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2000 without government approval. Suzhou River is still banned in its native China today.
[InC-Contest] Stand to win a pair of tickets to catch 'Walkabout' and 'Suzhou River'!
We have a pair of screening tickets to 'Walkabout' and 'Suzhou River' to give away to our loyal readers, all thanks to the peeps at Perspectives Film Festival!
Qn: What is the theme of this year's Perspectives Film Festival?
Send us your answers to incfans@incinemas.sg with the subject 'InC-Contest - PerspectivesFF'. Remember to include your full name, NRIC, email address and mobile number in the email too!
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