Opening film | Wet Season by Anthony Chen |
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Closing film | The Truth by Hirokazu Kore-eda |
Location | Singapore |
Festival date | 21 November–1 December 2019 |
Website | sgiff |
The 30th annual Singapore International Film Festival took place from 21 November to 1 December 2019 in Singapore. The festival opened with Anthony Chen's drama film Wet Season and closed with Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama film The Truth . [1]
Mystery drama film Scales won the festival's main award Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Film. [2]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Wet Season (opening film) | 热带雨 | Anthony Chen | Singapore, Taiwan |
The Truth (closing film) | La Vérité | Hirokazu Kore-eda | France, Japan |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Africa | Oren Gerner | ||
Bombay Rose | Gitanjali Rao | India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar | |
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains | 春江水暖 | Gu Xiaogang | China |
The Kamagasaki Cauldron War | 月夜釜合戦 | Leo Sato | Japan |
Passed by Censor | Görülmüştür | Serhat Karaaslan | Turkey, Germany, France |
Scales | سيدة البحر | Shahad Ameen | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia |
The Science of Fictions | Hiruk-Pikuk Si Al-Kisah | Yosep Anggi Noen | Indonesia, Malaysia, France |
The Tree House | Nhà Cây | Minh Quý Trương | Vietnam, Singapore, Germany, France, China |
Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Downton Abbey | Michael Engler | United Kingdom | |
Nina Wu | 灼人秘密 | Midi Z | Taiwan, Malaysia, Myanmar |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Accept the Call | Eunice Lau | Singapore, United States | |
I Dream of Singapore | Lei Yuan Bin | Singapore | |
Revolution Launderette | 信念のメリーゴーランド | Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen | Singapore, Japan |
Unteachable | Yong Shu Ling | Singapore | |
Series | |||
Invisible Stories(episodes 1–2) | Ler Jiyuan | Singapore |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Balloon | 气球 | Pema Tseden | China |
Breathless Animals | 动物方言 | Lei Lei | United States |
Coming Home Again | Wayne Wang | United States, South Korea | |
A Girl Missing | よこがお | Koji Fukada | Japan, France |
Krabi, 2562 | Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | United Kingdom, Thailand | |
Last Night I Saw You Smiling | យប់មិញបងឃើញអូនញញឹម | Kavich Neang | Cambodia, France |
Midnight Traveler | Hassan Fazili | United States, Qatar, United Kingdom, Canada | |
No.7 Cherry Lane | 繼園臺七號 | Yonfan | Hong Kong, China |
Ride Your Wave | きみと、波にのれたら | Masaaki Yuasa | Japan |
Saturday Fiction | 兰心大剧院 | Lou Ye | China |
A Sun | 陽光普照 | Chung Mong-hong | Taiwan |
The Tree Remembers | 還有一些樹 | Lau Kek-Huat | Taiwan |
The Wild Goose Lake | 南方车站的聚会 | Diao Yinan | China, France |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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And Then We Danced | და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ | Levan Akin | Sweden, Georgia, France |
Babyteeth | Shannon Murphy | Australia | |
Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France | |
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France | |
The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | United States | |
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States | |
Matthias & Maxime | Matthias et Maxime | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
Monos | Alejandro Landes | Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, United States | |
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | France |
Swallow | Carlo Mirabella-Davis | United States, France | |
Synonyms | Synonymes | Nadav Lapid | France, Germany |
The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles | United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, United States | |
Vitalina Varela | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Deerskin | Le daim | Quentin Dupieux | France |
First Love | 初恋 | Takashi Miike | Japan |
Roh | Emir Ezwan | Malaysia | |
Vivarium | Lorcan Finnegan | Ireland, Belgium, Denmark |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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LUCKY7 (2008) | Sun Koh, K. Rajagopal, Boo Junfeng, Brian Gothong Tan, Chew Tze Chuan, Ho Tzu Nyen, Tania Sng | Singapore | |
The Missing Picture (2013) | L'Image manquante | Rithy Panh | Cambodia, France |
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) | ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (2005) | Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional | Raya Martin | Philippines |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
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Flowers of Shanghai (1998) | 海上花 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan, Japan |
Memories of Murder (2003) | 살인의 추억 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
The following awards were presented at the festival: [3]
Asian Film Feature Competition
Southeast Asian Short Film Competition
Audience Choice Award: Unteachable by Yong Shu Ling
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