ELEVEN Singaporean films will be screened at the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), now on till Sunday. This is the biggest showing that Singapore has had at the festival since Eric Khoo's Pain was first screened there in 1995.
The festival programmer Gertjan Zuilhof says: 'Singapore, although small, is one of the more productive countries of South-east Asian cinema. It also has quite a few interesting young filmmakers.
'Royston Tan and Eric Khoo have a following in Rotterdam and, for the rest, the audience is open to discover new names.'
The 11 works include Lit11 S'pore films at IFFRtle Note by Royston Tan, Newton by Ho Tzu Nyen and Sherman Ong's Memories Of A Burning Tree, which was commissioned by the festival organisers.
Memories is about a man, Smith, who arrives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to look for a grave. Along the way, he meets a tour guide and many others who help him. While Smith searches for the grave, everyone else is also searching for something in their own way.
Ong, a film-maker, photographer and visual artist, shot the 86-minute feature last year over a month in Tanzania, as part of the Rotterdam film festival's Forget Africa project.
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