Darren Aronofsky to spice up Singapore Film Fest lineupOctober 27, 2016 - 13:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky will be the subject of an evening event at next month’s Singapore International Film Festival. Simon Yam, one of the most versatile Hong Kong actors, will receive a Cinema Legend Award, Variety said. The festival, running Nov. 23 – Dec. 4, will open with “Interchange,” by Dain Iskandar Said. Its complete line-up spans 161 films including 16 world premieres. Among the other highlights are gala screenings for “Mrs K,” directed by Malaysia’s Ho Yuhang and starring Hong Kong’s Kara Wai; and Nia Dinata’s “Three Sassy Sisters,” which premiered in Tokyo yesterday. Also benefiting forma special screening is “The Road to Mandalay,” a social realist portrayal by Taiwan’s Midi Z which has already enjoyed a busy festival career. Among the festival’s 13 sections are tributes to Hong Kong’s Fruit Chan and Japan’s Naomie Kawase, as well as a selection of South East Asian classics. Among these are “Tiga Dara,” the 1954 Indonesian title that inspired “Three Sassy Sisters.” From further afield are Cannes Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake,” and “Notes on Blindness,” by Peter Middleton and James Spinney. A four film Singaporean panorama includes: omnibus film “4 Love,” Kan Lume’s “Ariel & Olivia,” Ting Min-Wei’s “I’m Coming Up,” and Sam Loh’s “Siew Lup.” K. Rajagopal’s “A Yellow Bird,” which had its debut in Cannes this year, will also play in the Silver Screen competition for Asian films. Other Silver Screen contenders are: “By The Time It Gets Dark,” “Live From Dhaka,” “Nokas,” “Town in a Lake,” “Turah,” “Verge,” “Wandering,” “White Ant,” and “White Sun.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |