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A native New Yorker, Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.
2) The maid
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English
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Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr. and Mrs. Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits...
3) Canopy
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English
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Singapore, February 9, 1942. The Japanese invasion is underway. Jim, an Australian fighter pilot, wakes up dangling from a tree by his parachute strings somewhere in the middle of a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces.. As night devours day, he forges into the danger he must navigate in search of sanctuary when he encounters a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter, Seng, who, injured and frightened, also seeks to survive their tenuous surroundings...
4) Changi
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English
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"Six young men enlist some unique survival tactics against the horrific trials of a prisoner-of-war camp."--Container back.
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Film Movement volume 12, film 2
Language
中文（繁體）
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Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Bonus short film: A boy moves to a new neighborhood and falls in love for the first time with a much older girl next door.
7) Ilo ilo
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Language
中文（繁體）
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Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
8) Remittance
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English
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Not unlike other domestic workers, Marie leaves behind her children and unemployed husband for Singapore in hopes of earning sufficient savings to eventually open a business in the Philippines. Yet, one hurdle after another confronts her including the deduction of eight months of her wages to cover the entire cost of her migration to Singapore and the squandering of her earnings by a womanizing husband.
9) Wet season
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中文（繁體）
Description
A teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
10) Krrish
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Hindi
Description
Krishna is a boy with magical powers. He becomes entranced by a pretty girl, Priya, but Priya and her friend have hatched a plot to use Krishna's powers for personal gain.
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日本語
Description
The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
12) Haunted Changi
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English
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In January 2010, a group of filmmakers began exploring old Changi Hospital in Singapore...with terrifying and tragic results. This film contains the crew's original footage.
13) Singapore
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English
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In pre-war Singapore, Matt Gordon falls in love with Linda Grahame, but loses contact with her when the Japanese attack. Five years later, he returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls and accidentally reconnects with Linda, who is now married and suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, the sinister Mauribus schemes to steal Matt's pearls.
14) Serangoon Road
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English
Description
Set in tumultuous 1960s Singapore, Sam Callaghan an Australian expat, agrees to help his neighbor Patricia Cheng at her detective agency after her husband is mysteriously killed while working a case.
15) The offering
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English
Description
When the young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.
16) The power
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Hindi
Description
It has been often quoted that no change can occur without suffering and no creation without destruction. Devidas Thakur recalls his gunshot childhood as he flies back from Singapore for his mother's birthday. He intends to just be a visitor to the world he left behind and to take his beloved Pari (Shruti Haasan) away. He intends to leave his loving, loyal albeit power-hungry family behind to rule their "kingdom" in Mumbai, so he can be a chef. Fate,...
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Language
English
Description
Running out on his stuffy desk job and marriage-minded girlfriend, Josh Mallon links up with sailor-buddy Ace and sets sail for the farthest point on the map: Singapore. On the exotic island of Kaigoon, they meet Mima, a lovely young dancer on the run from her domineering fiance. Josh and Ace rescue Mima, who moves into their shack, cooks, cleans, sings, and quickly becomes the object of their wise-cracking war for her affections.
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English
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"In Singapore in 1960, a crop of young British soldiers are trained in the arts of love and war in this darkly comic examination of the perils, tedium and confusion that dominate the day-to-day life in ranks. Philippa ... the daughter of British Sergeant Major Raskin, is the singular object for the sexual speculations of the raw recruits known as the 'virgin soldiers'"--Container.
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