Après avoir tiré Jack Sparrow de l'au-delà, les pirates forment une confrérie pour lutter contre le terrible Davey Jones, devenu l'allié de Lord Beckett et de sa puissante Compagnie des Indes orientales qui écument les mers pour les exterminer.
Fils d’un couple richissime de Singapour, Nick Young a grandi à Londres puis s’est établi à New York où il est devenu enseignant. Rachel Chu, sa nouvelle compagne, est pour sa part issue de la classe moyenne américaine et ignore que Nick est à la fois le célibataire le plus en vue d’Asie et le seul héritier de la colossale fortune familiale. Armée de bonne volonté et de patience, la jeune femme essaie de gagner les faveurs d’Eleonor, la mère hyper contrôlante de Nick.
In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
Masato, jeune chef de rāmen au Japon, a toujours rêvé de partir à Singapour pour retrouver le goût des plats que lui cuisinait sa mère quand il était enfant. Alors qu'il entreprend le voyage culinaire d’une vie, il découvre des secrets familiaux profondément enfouis. Trouvera-t-il la recette pour réconcilier les souvenirs du passé ?
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.
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
After experiencing traumatic nightmares of a time now past, the Sorceress summons Prince Adam and Cringer to Castle Grayskull to give Adam a precious, jeweled sword and send the pair to the planet Etheria to investigate its secrets.
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
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.
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.
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.
Quand un jeune soldat est retrouvé mort, ses camarades sont confrontés au terrifiant secret hantant leur camp d'entraînement au cœur de la jungle.
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.
In an alternate timeline, Ken, Lobang and Wayang King are transferred to the Naval Diving Unit (NDU) and have to overcome obstacles and personal issues to grow as people.
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
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.
Even if two people are on the opposite sides of the universe, once the connection is made, they're basically one.
This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore in the World War 2. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.
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.
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...