And here comes another! 📽️

As we mourn the unfortunate closing of The Projector and Cathay in Singapore 🏛️🎬, we invite you to this week’s screening of the beautifully melancholic Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang. 🐉🌧️

Come dressed in your finest funeral chic and join us in honouring the ghosts of movie houses past. ⚰️🕯️ We also welcome you to write or draw a little tribute note as a eulogy to the end of these iconic spaces. 📝

And we’re starting the semester off with a bang! …or maybe a smash!? 💥😄

Love drives us crazy, doesn’t it? 😵‍💫

And yet, we can’t stop watching the same old tropes of passionate desire, unrequited loves, misunderstandings, heartaches, and of course, the ever-complicated love triangle. So what is it about romance that keeps us watching, feeling, yearning? To kickstart the semester full of love, we present to you Challengers (2024)—a subversive take on the romantic drama, wrapped in the sweaty tension of competitive sports. 🎾💦 Come dressed in your cardigans, loafers, button up blouses, and baseball caps for Wimbledon right here with us, to play some fun games and get to know your fellow members in the new AY! 🫂👗 📍North Spine, LT1A 🗓️ 28 August (Thursday), 6.30PM

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Filmmaking Labs session for this semester!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Filmmaking Labs session for this semester!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

Members can find out more information in our members-only Telegram group!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Filmmaking Labs session for this semester!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

Thank you to those who joined us for our screening!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Filmmaking Labs session for this semester!

We look forward to seeing all of you at our Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!

Thank you to those who joined us for our screening!

Knowing how stressed we all get by the start of school, NTU Film Society is excited to collaborate with Saraca Hall and Cat Management Network to present NTU's inaugural Cat Film Festival, featuring:

🎞️ Screening of 'Kedi' (a film about Turkish street cats, and the care and community it takes for our feline friends to thrive)
🐱 Screening of Cute Cat Videos
🐈 Cat Therapy Session
🤔 Educational Quiz with Prizes to be Won!

Members can find out more information, as well as the sign-up links, in our members-only Telegram group! We look forward to seeing everyone there!

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Thank you to those who joined us for our screening!

For our final screening of the semester, NTU Film Society will be screening Joyland (2022) dir. Saim Sadiq, a film which was briefly banned in Pakistan, that touches on everyday misogyny and transphobia in the inner city of Lahore, as well as the blossoming of a tender queer love story.

Synopsis: Following a long spell of unemployment, Haider lands a job at a Bollywood-style burlesque, telling his family he is a theater manager. In actuality, he is a backup dancer and becomes infatuated with a strong-willed trans woman, Biba.

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✏️ Director Saim Sadiq’s bio: 

Saim Sadiq is a Pakistani screenwriter and director who won the Jury Prize of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival for directing the drama film Joyland, the first Pakistani film to be selected in Cannes. Joyland also won the Queer Palm award during its world premiere at Cannes.

For this week’s ancillary programme, NTU Film Society’s programming team seeks to break with the white domination of queer narratives, including explorations on Indigenous communities' particular negotiations of queerness and gender performance. We will be screening I Dream In Another Language (2017) by dir. Ernesto Contreras and Two Spirits (2009) by dir. Lydia Nibley.

I Dream In Another Language Synopsis: A linguist arrives in a small jungle settlement hoping to record a conversation between two elderly men, the last two remaining speakers of the Zikril language. Unfortunately for him, the men are feuding and haven't spoken to each other in 50 years.

Two Spirits Synopsis: Filmmaker Lydia Nibley examines the 2001 murder of Fred Martinez, a transgendered teenager of American Indian descent.

Check out the trailers for I Dream In Another Language & Two Spirits!

✏️ Directors Ernesto Contreras’s bios: 

Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best Short Film in 2004, for The non-invited.

✏️ Director Lydia Nibley’s bio: 

Lydia Nibley is an award-winning producer, director, writer, script doctor, and creative consultant for film, books, and television. Lydia has collaborated on numerous film and television projects appearing in theatres globally and airing on National Geographic, the BBC, PBS, CBC, and elsewhere. She’s been honored to receive the PBS Audience Award for her documentary Two Spirits as well as Parents’ Choice, Clio, regional Emmy, and numerous film festival awards for a variety of projects. She also produces for her company Riding The Tiger Productions.

We look forward to seeing all of you at our final Filmmaking Labs session for this semester!

We hope to see you our final Film Criticism Labs session for this semester!