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Ken Kwek is an award-winning screenwriter, director and playwright from Singapore. His anthology of short films “Sex. Violence. Family Values” (2013) was banned in Singapore but won awards internationally. His feature debut “Unlucky Plaza” (2014) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ken Kwek is also a theatre director and author of several bestselling children's books. “#LookAtMe” is his second feature film.

On the occassion of #LookAtMe screening at Fica Vesoul, where it picked up two awards, the Young Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award, and during an interview that begun and continued as a conversation in a cafe, we speak about the characters in the movie, the reasons behind its ban, the laws regarding homosexuality in Singapore, yao, televangelists, and many other topics.

Your film centers on a pair of twins – one straight, one gay – brought up by a single mother. Why did you choose not to have a father in the story?...

The film will make its Southeast Asian debut with a one-night-only showing and live drag performances by protagonist Opera Tang and fellow Queens

Tickets are going fast for the 33rd edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff), which runs from November 24 to December 4, 2022. Just added to the line-up is Baby Queen (rated R21) by Singaporean filmmaker Lei Yuan Bin, who is known for 03-flats (2014), which competed in Busan, and I Dream of Singapore (2019), which premiered at the Berlinale. Baby Queen is his fifth feature and premiered recently at the Busan International Film Festival 2022.

About Baby Queen: With her striking Teochew opera-inspired makeup, Opera Tang has been making waves on the local drag scene since her debut in 2020. Through intimate vignettes of Opera’s personal life, the film chronicles her queer journey: from coming-out as a fledgling drag queen, falling in love, competing in drag pageants, to dressing up...

Gravitas Ventures is set to release festival fave horror Repossession on digital December 1st. Check Out this Trailer:

From directors Goh Ming Siu and Scott C.Hillyard, the provocative horror-thriller fixes on 50-year-old Jim who has constructed a perfect life in the world’s most expensive city. When he is unexpectedly laid off, he desperately clings onto the symbols of his success, while wrestling with resurfacing demons from his past.

In the tradition of Get Out and Parasite, and starring Gerald Chew, Amy J Cheng, Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Rachel Wan and Matthew Loo, Repossession has as much to say as it does scares!

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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to Kyle Thomas’ drama Range Roads, along with North American rights to Dylan Reid’s semi-autobiographical film, By the Grace of…The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the former title written and directed by Thomas across internet, cable and satellite platforms on December 14, unveiling the latter written and directed by Reid across the same range of platforms on December 21.

Range Roads tells the story of Frankie King (Alana Hawley Purvis), a television actor who has been estranged from her family for 20 years, returning to her hometown in rural Canada after her parents are killed in a sudden car accident. As she struggles to reconnect with her truculent brother Grayson (Joe Perry), old wounds are reopened and family secrets uncovered. Thomas and Sara Corry produced the pic, which also stars Chad Brownlee and Nicole de Boer.

“Repossession“, co-director/writers Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard’s subtle, topical story of one man’s inexorable psychological collapse at the hands of market forces, will screen at six film festivals during the close of this Northern Hemisphere summer into fall, commencing with its Southern California premiere at the prestigious Dances With Films festival, unspooling August 28 and 31 online in Los Angeles, and concluding (for now) its Fall festival run October 23 at the Chicago Southland International Film Festival.

While the film sits astride psychotronic genres, its real horror, according to Singapore’s Sinema News, “…ironically – mainly comes in the form of the societal realities of cut-throat Singapore.” On this Covid-19 tainted planet, “Repossession”‘s characters’ surprisingly swift downward journeys could mirror that of many others’ worldwide.

In “Repossession,” 50-year-old Jim loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife and daughter.

For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.

The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).

This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.

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This diversity is already visible in the choice...