Off the Catalogue: June 2024

Off the Catalogue is a monthly programme that presents films from the @asianfilmarchive collection. This month’s selection offers a captivating exploration of family life.

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.

Screening: June 5, 2024
Time: 8:00pm

Reciprocal 2023

Reciprocal 2023: Asian Film Archive (AFA) x Eye Filmmuseum

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/

Asian Movie Pulse: Film Review

A review of Absent Smile by Rouven Linnarz of Asian Movie Pulse

Click here to read.

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

Trailer here

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.

https://sgiff.com/films/absent-smile/

Thursday Cinema "What is normal, anyway?"

The program reflects upon shared concerns of our current time, while accentuating emerging possibilities of the ways we relate to the world. Posed as a rhetorical question, What is normal, anyway? tackles the idea of social constructs through unique settings of diverse cultures, and examines how established ways affect the complex and vast systems we live in. Bringing the notion of normality into question through individual and collective narratives, the selection also highlights the potential of storytelling in envisioning the future.

A Love Unknown

Screening: Thursday, June 30, 2022
Time: 7pm
Venue: SALT Beyoğlu Walk-in Cinema

Online: Friday - Sunday, July 1 - 3, 2022
www.saltonline.org

https://saltonline.org/en/2433/persembe-sinemasi-normal-dedigin-nedir-ki-a-love-unknown-mechul-bir-sevgi?home

Asian Film Festival Barcelona

A Love Unknown
Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2021

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.

Date: October 28 - November 10, 2021

Watch it on FILMIN (online), click HERE

https://asianfilmfestival.barcelona/2021/film-item/a-love-unknown/

Trailer here

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

Tickets here

Trailer here

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.