Siguiendo la estela de lo sucedido en “Piratas del Caribe: El cofre de la muerte”, nuestros héroes, Will Turner y Elizabeth Swann, se han aliado con el capitán Barbossa para buscar y liberar al capitán Jack Sparrow del poder de Davy Jones. Mientras el Holandés Errante y la East India Trading Company causan estragos a lo largo de los Siete Mares, Will y Elizabeth navegan hacia Singapur, donde deben enfrentarse al astuto pirata chino Sao Feng. Ahora, en los mismísimos confines de la tierra, todos ellos deben elegir un bando en la batalla final, ya que no sólo sus vidas y fortunas, sino también el futuro de la piratería clásica, pende de un hilo.
Rachel Chu es profesora de economía en la Universidad de Nueva York, allí conoce a Nick Young -profesor de historia- y se enamoran. Ambos tienen que viajar a la ciudad natal de Nick, Singapur, para asistir a la boda de su mejor amigo. Es allí cuando Rachel descubre que su novio pertenece a una de las familias más ricas de Asia y que todas las solteras de clase alta están increíblemente celosas de ella. La joven tendrá que enfrentarse a todas ellas y demostrar a la familia de su novio que ella también es digna de estar con él.
Hong Kong, 1962. Chow, redactor jefe de un diario local, se muda con su mujer a un edificio habitado principalmente por residentes de Shanghai. Allí conoce a Li-zhen, una joven que acaba de instalarse en el mismo edificio con su esposo. Ella es secretaria de una empresa de exportación y su marido está continuamente de viaje de negocios. Como la mujer de Chow también está casi siempre fuera de casa, Li-zhen y Chow pasan cada vez más tiempo juntos y se hacen muy amigos. Un día, ambos descubrirán algo inesperado sobre sus respectivos cónyuges.
Wet Season revolves around the life of Ling, a schoolteacher who deals with infertility while having to take care of her infirm father-in-law at home. One of Ling's students, Kok Wei Lun, develops a crush on her during remedial Chinese classes. The two become closer as Wei Lun embraces Ling's extra tutoring.
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
Masato, un joven chef de ramen que quiere saber más sobre el pasado de sus padres fallecidos, deja su ciudad natal en Japón embarcándose en un viaje culinario hacia Singapur para encontrar la verdad sobre su pasado y su familia. Durante esa deliciosa odisea, Masato descubrirá los secretos de sus ancestros, suculentas recetas y mucho más.
This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
La fría y calculadora esposa del propietario de una plantación de caucho en Malasia asesina a un hombre, supuestamente en defensa propia. Pero, de repente, aparece una comprometedora carta cuyo contenido echa por tierra la versión de los hechos de la protagonista.
Singapore's first full-length English language film, released in local cinemas in November 1991. Loosely based on the Adrian Lim ritual murders in the early 1980s, the film was shot and produced in Singapore. It was the debut filmmaking effort for its executive producer, Errol Pang, and it has been credited with reawakening Singapore's local film scene. In the movie's ending, the main character based on Adrian Lim escapes from prison and runs into an incoming truck, where Satan catches him and subjects him to eternal torture – this was said to be added to suggest to the audience that crime does not pay.
5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless punishment eventually becomes a pivotal childhood experience for Yang that will forever change him.
Zach (William Lawandi), a remorseless serial womaniser and con man, meets his match in Li Ling (Vivienne Tseng), an alluring and well-to-do woman who makes a wicked bowl of pork rib soup. Things take an unexpected turn when Zach meets Li Ling's younger sister, the drop-dead gorgeous Li Er (Angeline Yap). Soon enough, Zach turns his lecherous attentions towards Li Er, and they begin an affair behind Li Ling's back. Li Er convinces Zach to help her execute a heinous plot to murder her older sister, whom she blames for causing her mother's death. However, things are not as simple as they seem.
Encuentran muerto a un recluta, y los demás soldados deben enfrentar un secreto aterrador que asola el campamento de entrenamiento militar.
El Príncipe Adam es enviado al mundo de Etheria para encontrar a su hermana Adora, secuestrada hace mucho tiempo, y despertarla a su propio destino.
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
After realising his foolishness in malingering, Ken returns to Tekong to continue his Basic Military Training, and reforms himself as a model recruit. However, this draws dislike and mockery from his section mates, led by the street-smart Lobang.
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.
A cop in Singapore investigates the disappearance of a Chinese migrant construction worker who spent sleepless nights playing a mysterious video game.
Mia, an ex-prostitute, is trapped in a loveless marriage with the abusive Quan (Sunny Pang, who also stars in Headshot in this year’s Festival lineup), a butcher who runs a roast meat shop. When she meets sensitive funeral director Wu, their passion for one another escalates into an affair. But the path to true love is fraught with jealousy, forcing someone to make a deadly move.