Four more days to watch award-winning films for free online at True Colors Film Festival (TCFF)

Extended by popular demand: Short Films

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SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 9 December 2020 - Before
TCFF ends on 12
December 2020, movie buffs can catch these full-length features:

24 hour streaming only from 11-12 December 2020

The Chess Game of the Wind (1976; Iran), screened only twice in 1976, it
was presumed lost after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Found, and then restored
by Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project. A paraplegic
heiress and predatory men. 

 

Streaming until 12 December 2020

Moral (1982; Philippines) by Marilou Díaz-Abaya. Four female friends seek freedom in a patriarchal
society.

 

Mental (2008;
Japan/United States), Best Documentary at the Busan International Film Festival
and the Dubai International Film Festival. The complex world of a mental health
clinic in Japan.

Darkness and Light (1999; Taiwan), Tokyo Grand Prix, Tokyo Film Festival
1999, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing, Golden Horse Film Festival
1999, Best Film, Taipei Film Festival 1999. Love, blindness and reality. 

Blue Gate
Crossing (Taiwan; 2002), official selection of
the Director’s Fortnight 2002 at Cannes. Coming-of-age film about teen romance.

Talentime (Malaysia; 2009), winner of Best Southeast Asian Film,
Cinemanila Film Festival 2009 and Best Director, Screenplay and Supporting
Actor, Malaysia Film Festival 2009. Yasmin Ahmad’s last film; love and
friendship across barriers.

The Last Mile: On the Road to Eliminate Leprosy (Japan; 2017), WHO Goodwill
Ambassador Yohei Sasakawa’s decades long war on leprosy takes him to 20
countries.

SHORT FILMS
— 18 TITLES EXTENDED UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 2020, INCLUDING:

 

Elsewhere (2015; Italy), a heartwarming road trip movie starring Simone,
a young man with Down syndrome.

Dahdi (Singapore; 2014), inspired by a 2012 event in
which 40 Burmese Rohingya asylum seekers arrived in Singapore. An elderly widow
faces an unexpected guest — and a moral dilemma.

Stand by Me Music Video (2020; Singapore), 46 artistes from 15
countries/regions perform a classic hit at the height of the pandemic.

Poop on
Poverty (2013; India), a
challenge faced by two billion people every day; a stylish dig at wealthy
tourists. 

Lovely
Bones (Myanmar; 2015),
a love story about Pauk Gyi and his wife who share a bond to transcend all
obstacles.

Many Notes, One Melody (2018; India), voices joined in
harmony across caste, class and ability.

Streaming links:

Feature films: theprojector.sg/tcff

Short films and dialogues: Vimeo

For information: truecolors2020.jp/en/program/true-colors-film-festival-2020