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The Fifth Southeast Asian Film Festival (SEAFF) Returns this April!
By InCinemas / 25 Mar 2015 (Wednesday)
The fifth edition of the Southeast Asian Film Festival (SEAFF) celebrates the spirit of independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia, with a total of 20 films from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to be screened at the festival!
Southeast Asian Film Festival (SEAFF)
Date: 10 April - 3 May 2015
Venue: Moving Image Gallery, Level 2, Singapore Arts Museum at 8Q
Ticket Pricing:
- Normal: $10
- Students/NSF/Senior Citizen: $8
- Package (5 SEAFF tickets or more): $7.50 per screening
(Click to purchase your tickets at Sistic, here!)
The Southeast Asian Film Festival returns for its fifth year with an exciting presentation of the newest and most compelling cinematic work emerging from the region. This year’s Festival features films from various countries; as well as post-screening discussions from emerging and veteran directors. A celebration of independent filmmaking, the Festival reflects the diversity and contemporary socio-political and cultural issues of the region through film genres such as action, comedy, documentary, drama, and more.
The films Chasing Waves (2015) and Fundamentally Happy (2015) make their world premieres at this Festival, while K’na the Dreamweaver (2014), Riddles of My Homecoming (2013) and Sparks (2014) are international premieres showing outside their home countries for the first time.
[Opening Film]
SEAFF opens with the film The Last Executioner (2014), directed by Tom Waller, which tells the story of Chavoret Jarubon - the last person in Thailand whose job was to execute death row prisoners with a machine gun. The film stars Vithaya Pansringarm in the role of Chavoret, for which he won Best Actor at the Shanghai Film Festival in 2014.
The Last Executioner (M18 - Mature Content)
95 min
Thai with English subtitles
Friday, 10 April 2015 | 7.30pm
There will be a post-screening discussion with director Tom Waller.
[Closing Film]
The closing film, NOVA (2014) by Malaysian director Nik Amir Mustapha, is a tale about the madcap adventure of a group of friends on a quest to prove that UFOs are real. Focusing on the camaraderie of old friends and childhood memories, the film also pays homage to Malaysian cinema greats like P. Ramlee, Shamsuddin and Aziz Sattar.
Next Generation Directors
NOVA (NC16 - Some Drug Use)
106 min
Bahasa Malaysia and some English with English subtitles
Sunday, 3 May 2015 | 5.30pm
For the first time, SEAFF introduces the action film genre. As a special tribute, the Festival presents two films as part of Action Asia: The Wild Wild Years of Asian Film Action – The Search for Weng Weng directed by Andrew Leavold and Garuda Power: The Spirit Within directed by Bastian Meiresonne.
SEAFF continues its practice of bringing film directors to the Festival for post-screening dialogues and discussions. Over the three-week festival period, audiences will be able to meet 13 directors, producers and other industry professionals associated with these films, participate in these sessions where filmmakers will discuss issues raised in their work and share insights into their filmmaking process.
(Download the Southeast Asian Film Festival 2015 program booklet here!)