20th SIFF

The Singapore International Film Festival is here again : http://www.filmfest.org.sg/

Yesterday marked the Opening of the Film Festival at Lido 3.
Opening Film shown SANKARA from Sri Lanka (Lido 1)

Quite a 'slow' film with very very little conversation. However, the impact is deep.
It addresses the nature of human in general, how one's fight with your own desire and passion. It comes in the form of a young Buddhist monk, coming to a small village temple to restore its painting. Buddha teaches that man must not be swayed by passion. However, while painting, he is distracted by a beautiful young village girl – here, he have to face the demons within himself, his inner spiritual world is plunged into turmoil. The day after the restoration work was completed, the paintings were scrathed, destroyed (by himself). He managed to restore them again; without being able to erase the mark completely though.
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Isn't this how we are? Constantly 'fighting', 'tugging, pulling, then releasing' with our inner-self ??... Astaghafirullah hal-azeem.

May Allah always guide us to the right path and obstruct our way towards the wrong and evil ...InsyaAllah.


On the other note. To those whom enjoy watching Good Films... do spare sometime to watch movies from the Film Festival instead of those Hollywood Blockbusters shown in the theaters here... other countries do make GOOD films too you know (not only Hollywood !). These are specially selected good quality Film, many of which have won awards.

Some Films I hope I can catch : (Realist, LoveStory & Humour)
April 22 : LITTLE HEART SONGS - Country Japan
April 24 : LOSING AHMAD - Country Kuwait
April 25 : I AM THE ONE WHO BRINGS FLOWERS TO HER GRAVE - Country Syria/France
April 26 : CROSSING THE DUST - Country Iraq/Kurdistan
April 29 : FOOL’s ALLEY - Country Egypt

And mabye
April 21 : WE SHALL OVERCOME - Country Denmark
April 21 : HASINA - Country India
April 22 : IN THE SHADOW OF THE DOG - Country India
April 23 : STEPPE EXPRESS - Country Kazakhstan
April 24 : LIKE A VIRGIN - Country South Korea
April 25 : SCREAM OF THE ANTS - Country Iran/France
April 28 : THE SIDE EFFECTS OF LOVE - Country India
April 28 : IN PASSION AND LOVE - Country Egypt
April 29 or 19?? : 3 DAYS TO FOREVER - Country Indonesia
April 30 : OPERA JAWA (Closing Film) - Country Indonesia/Austria

Aiyyai..yai ... so many da .... !! and so many many more !!.. be it stories about War, Crime, Spiritual, Animation, etc .. from India, Middle-East, Korea, Denmark, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Germany, etc ...

For more detail about shows, schedules, prices - visit :
http://www.filmfest.org.sg/


P.S : (Do watch ‘us’ in Suria Segar this Sunday)