Inspired by newsprint, poetry, and an urgency to preserve the stories of his sovereign island country, filmmaker Leang Ren Ong serves up Singapore’s final day of hardcopy news in Morning Times—an audiovisual time capsule of anthropological research and age-old breakfast routines blended with radio announcing, a history lesson, and a dash of socialism.
Inspired by newsprint, poetry, and an urgency to preserve the stories of his sovereign island country, filmmaker Leang Ren Ong serves up Singapore’s final day of hardcopy news in Morning Times—an audiovisual time capsule of anthropological research and age-old breakfast routines blended with radio announcing, a history lesson, and a dash of socialism.
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 visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael Jackson had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.