To ALL Indie Film fanatics:

Below lies the list of great but rare-in-Singapore films which will be screened @ venue and dates TBA. The themes of these films revolve around urban love, alienation of youth and immigrants, Japanese cult & yakuza violence and gay love.
No entrance fee.
Propaganda of this mini filmfest: Promote sharing and understanding of interesting (lo-fi, B-grade whatsoever) films

French Animation
LES TRIPLETTES DE BELLEVILLE
Adopted by his grandmother, Madame Souza, Champion is a lonely little boy. Noticing that the lad is never happier than on a bicycle, Madame Souza puts him through a rigorous training process becomes worthy of this name. Now he is ready to enter the world-famous cycling race, the Tour de France.
However, during this cycling contest two mysterious men in black kidnap Champion. Madame Souza and her faithful dog Bruno set out to rescue him. They encounter the renowned "Triplets of Belleville", three eccentric female music-hall stars from the 30's who decide to take Madame Souza and Bruno under their wing.

Thanks to Bruno's brilliant sense of smell, the brave duo are soon on to Champion's trail. But will they sycceed in beating the devilish plans of the evil French mafia?

Made In Hong Kong (Fruit Chan)
~ Andy Lau | Sam Lee
Autumn Moon is a low life thug, he and some friends discover the body of a dead girl who committed suicide, and a note she left. This dead girl that he never knew ends up teaching him more about his own life than he could by himself, and also guides him to his own fate. See this movie and experience cinema at it's best.

Love Is Not A Game, But A Joke
~ Andy Hui | Shu Kei Shu Qi
Three friends make a pact to compete for the hand of a girl named Karen - but first, they have to find her. There are certain rules: the time period for the contest is only one month, and they can't use the television, newspaper, or radio to locate her. All they can do is hope that their intuition - or perhaps just their luck - will allow them to chance upon her somewhere in Hong Kong. The three approach their goal in different ways, but each finds other surprising romantic encounters, and perhaps opportunities for lasting love.

Millennium Mambo
~ Shu Kei Shu Qi | Ko Jit
A City of Sadness director Hou Hsiao Hsien's latest work, Millennium Mambo, tells a story of a Taiwanese young girl, Vicky (starred by Shu Qi,) in search for her true love and her own way of living. In the movie, Vicky is madly in love with her boyfriend, although his selfishness causes Vicky to suffer.

Ichi The Killer
~ Asano Tadanobu | Tsukamoto Shinya
One character, Kakihara (starring Tadanobu Asano), a masochistic yakuza lieutenant, has slits in his cheeks through which he blows cigarette smoke and gleefully hacks off his own tongue to apologize for his impudence. Then there is eponymous assassin (Nao Omori), a painfully shy but sadistic young voyeur who wears a leather superhero outfit to work. Manipulated by the cagey and mysterious Jijii ("Gramps" -- Shinya Tsukamoto), Ichi lashes out and massacres those Jijii deems bullies, and basically anyone else who upsets his frail psyche. Jijii uses the demented lad to start a bloody war between rival yakuza factions.

Distance (Golden Palm Nomination)
~ Asano Tadanobu | Iseya Yusuke
Don't look here for answers to 9/11 or the Aum incident. Best tries for that would be read Haruki Murakami's "Underground" (Vintage International 2001) or see Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka." "Distance" has two significant sets. First is a dirt road through a skyless (camera doesn't look up) forest. A group connected in various ways with former Aum members, come to honor the tragedy but stranded by a car breakdown, take forever deciding whether to walk backward or forward. Suspense builds, a little like that around the host and guests unable to leave in Buñuel's "Exterminating Angel." The sole Aum vet among them (he got out before the serin) offers a third option, essentially go sideways (almost as if Buñuel's crowd had decided to walk out toward the camera or away from it through a wall), leading to the second significant set, a not quite barracks-like abandoned Aum building.

Cai Ming Liang Collection
~ Cai Ming Liang | Lee Kang Sheung
The River
Rebel of the Neon God
Vive L'amour

A City Of Sadness (Taiwan Version)
~ Tony Leung | Hou Xiao Xien

Happy Together
~ Leslie Cheung | Tony Leung
From internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Wong Kar Wai comes Happy Together, a compelling, emotionally complex drama starring award-winning actors Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. The two actors play lovers, whose tumultuous relationship is a never-ending process of breaking up and making up. The pair journeys to Buenos Aires to start over, but the cycle begins anew, each alternately completing and depleting the other, until the relationship can only disintegrate beneath their all-consuming passions.

Love Will Tear Us Apart
~ DIrected by and starring Tony Leung Ka Fai | Rolf Chow
The story of four mainland chinese immigrants mingles while they try to survive in an urban Hong Kong environment that couldn´t be more indifferent towards them. Tony Leung Ka Fai as Jian, who sells erotic movies in a shabby backdoor office, lives with Yan (Liu Ping Lu) whose child has been killed by him in a car accident some years earlier. In a store he meets the young northern prostitute Ying (Ning Wong) who wanted to immigrate to Hong Kong together with her boyfriend before he got arrested and shot. Forced to live it the tough way, among all dullness, they start falling in love with each other and question their feelings for eachother, or even if they have any. This movie is a touching, poignant and heavy introduction to the more unexplored themes of Hong Kong society, when fates of northern immigrants struggling to survive intermingle but in the end everybody involved stands alone.