SIFF comes round again, and it is the 20th

April 18^th to April 30^th 2007 there will be the 20^th edition of Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) held in, naturally, Singapore at different venues and bringing in its wake a whopping 300 films from more than 40 countries, as well as handing out the prestigious Silver Screen Awards for Best Asian Feature and best Singaporean Short respectively. You can keep up with all the latest news and have an in depth look at the program on their new website, which you really should take the time to do if you have any intention (as I personally do) to go there and make good use of this opportunity to assess for yourself the current trends and standards in Asian film making, and in Singaporean in particular. There should be something to suit about anyone's taste, really, in this very encompassing line-up. Just two segments (“Special Programmes”) I would like to point out to you, namely the extensive retrospective commemorating the 25^th anniversary of the untimely death of German innovator director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and the complete re-run of all the winning films in the category Singapore Shorts, from the first such award of 1991 on up to last year's (and sporting the additional feat of each and every film's director allegedly being present at their own screenings for a Q&A session, now if that's no promise!). Both sound fairly interesting to me, indeed, and then there's just so much more – do have a look here.

(pic©Singapore International Film Festival 2007)