The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) will wrap its 37th edition on Nov. 1 with “Vintage Violence,” Eugene Kotlyarenko’s livestream-era crime caper starring Cole Sprouse and Mizuhara Kiko.
The screening brings back a stand-alone festival closing, which SGIFF last staged in 2014.
Born in Odessa, Kotlyarenko moved to New York and enrolled at Columbia University, taking film, philosophy and literature. He previously directed “Wobble Palace” (2018) and “Spree” (2020), which also centers on online culture.
Other sessions in the strand feature Aamir Khan, Peter Chan and Shim Eun-kyung on Oct. 22, Koreeda Hirokazu on Oct. 24 and Anthony Wong on Oct. 29.
SGIFF opens Oct. 21 with Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s),” which the festival has kept as its opening film after South Korea’s conservative People Power Party, writing on behalf of all 109 of its lawmakers, asked it to drop the title over claims that it distorts history.
The festival is supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).
