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Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait
Exhibition Date: 20-31 Jan 2026
Venue: Wan Hai Hotel
Address: 320 Havelock Road, Singapore 169628
Human Being Human: Selections from the Collection of John and Cheryl Chia
Exhibition Date: 19 Jan - 26 Apr, 2026
Venue: The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Road, Singapore 228120
Curated by Tamares Goh & Aaron Teo
Opening Date: 19 Jan (Mon)
Time: 6pm
Reciprocal 2023
Reciprocal 2023: Asian Film Archive (AFA) x Eye Filmmuseum
Absent Smile features the parents of New York-based Singaporean photographer and filmmaker John Clang. Their daily routines and conversations reveal them missing but supporting their son. On a parallel tangent, the documentary features candid portrait photography sessions of various families, where kin overseas partake and reconnect with loved ones at home over the webcam.
This screening will be accompanied by a post-screening in-person discussion with Director Lavender Chang at Oldham Theatre
Screening: July 8, Saturday, 2023
Time: 8:00pm
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RECIPROCAL is the Asian Film Archive (AFA)’s annual collaborative film programme that spotlights the archival collections of AFA and a partnering archive. Inspired by and responding to the resonance of each other’s featured collections, the curated line-up explores the creative intersections and juxtapositions between the preserved national, regional, and international film and moving image, offering perspectives on archival issues and concerns confronting contemporary archivists.
https://asianfilmarchive.org/event-calendar/reciprocal-2023-eye-filmmuseum/
Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022
Absent Smile
World Premiere at Singapore Panorama, Singapore International Film Festival 2022
Ten years after an elderly couple takes a special portrait with their absent son who lives overseas, their sense of yearning grows into a habit where long distance phone calls and mundane repetitions are temporary remedies to a complex longing.
Screening: Thursday, December 1, 2022
Time: 6:30pm
Tickets on sale on November 2, 2022
Venue: Golden Village Plaza, Hall 9
Address: 68 Orchard Road, Plaza Singapura, Singapore 238839
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The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is the longest-running film festival in Singapore. The festival has a focus on showcasing international films and providing a global platform for the best of Singapore and Southeast Asian cinema.
Singapore Panorama: Presenting the latest feature and short films that showcase talents in local filmmaking, with its finger on the pulse of the most exciting developments in Singapore cinema.
Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021
A Love Unknown
Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2021
First screening: Friday, May 21, 2021
Time: 8pm
Second screening: Saturday, May 29, 2021
Time: 2pm
Venue: Oldham Theatre
Address: 1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
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Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film.
Support Objectifs: 20 for 2020
Objectifs is a non-profit arts space dedicated to photography and film. Covid-19 has deeply affected their operation and they’ve just launched their first ever fundraiser. Please support generously. Donate and get a print gift! 🎁
Participating Artists: Darren Soh, John Clang, Robert Zhao Renhui, Kirsten Tan, Lenne Chai, Bryan van der Beek, ila, Ng Hui Hsien, nor, Shubigi Rao, Mindy Tan, Boo Junfeng, Amrita Chandradas, Lui Hock Seng, Lim Kwong Ling, Wee Li Lin, Deanna Ng, Kevin WY Lee, Ivan Tan and Dylan Chan
More info here: www.objectifs.com.sg/support-objectifs2020/
12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
A Love Unknown
Asia Premiere at the 12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2020
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020
Time: 1:30pm
Second screening
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2020
Time: 11am
Venue: Megabox Baekseok
Address: 1036, Jungang-ro, Baekseok 1-dong, Ilsan-dong, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
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DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, also known as DMZ Docs, showcases films dealing with “peace, coexistence and reconcillation.”
Opening film of Singular Screens, curated by Asian Film Archive - POSTPONED due to COVID-19
A Love Unknown
Opening Film of Singular Screens, Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Time: 8pm
Second screening
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020
Time: 2pm
Venue: Oldham Theatre
Address: 1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
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Curated by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for the Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 (SIFA), Singular Screens celebrates diverse, independent and singular visions from Singapore and around the world. Discover a bold palette of cinematic adventures, featuring the ingenious and risk-taking in film.
A Love Unknown - Trailer
A Love Unknown
World Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
Two distant strangers, a woman in New York and her abandoned daughter she has never met in Singapore, try to break their endless fall into depression towards a better life. Elsewhere in a parallel universe, they live different fates.