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Beautiful Boxer
Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, the film chronicles her life from a young boy to her sensational career as a kickboxer.
David
One boy. Two faiths. As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, 11 year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father and his feelings of isolation and difference.
Dolphin Boy
Filmed over four years, this documentary traces the devastating havoc that human violence can wreak upon the human soul and the healing powers of nature and of love.
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Kindly note that the film Battle Royale has been cancelled. The film Scott Pilgrim Vs the World will be screened on 9 March instead. |
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Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
by nuSTUDIOS Film Productions
9 Mar | 6pm | Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium,
Education Resource Centre
Free admission. Registration required. 
Edgar Wright | USA | 2010 | 112 mins | PG | English
Gaming booths open from 6pm to 8pm.
Film screening begins at 8pm.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) , directed by Edgar Wright, is a visually stunning action fantasy about the idealistic and inexperienced Scott Pilgrim and his quest to defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets.
In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Pleasure Factory
15 Mar | 8pm | UCC Function Room 2
Free admission. *Fully Registered*
Thailand / The Netherlands / Hong Kong |
2007 | 88 mins | M-18| English, Tagalog, Mandarin, Cantonese with English subtitles
Viewers are required to produce photo ID at the door before admittance.
Inspired by true stories and real-life characters, Pleasure Factory, shot on actual locations, tells an intriguing and intimate tale involving pleasure seekers and pleasure providers in Geylang - Singapore’s red-light district.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Ekachai Uekrongtham And His Pleasure Factory:
A Life in Theatre, Film and Entertainment
In conjunction with NUS CFA Speakers Series: Spotlight
16 Mar | 4.30pm | UCC Function Room 2
Free admission. Registration required.
*Filling Fast*
NUS Alumnus BBA ’89 Ekachai Uekrongtham is an award-winning film and theatre director and has directed and produced more than 100 plays and musicals in Singapore, China, USA, Malaysia and Thailand. His talk will be accompanied by a retrospective of his first three feature films – Beautiful Boxer, Pleasure Factory and The Coffin.
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The Coffin
16 Mar | 3pm | UCC Function Room 2
Free admission. *Fully Registered*
South Korea / Thailand / Singapore / USA
2008 | 86 mins | PG | English, Thai with English subtitles.
Inspired by a true Thai ritual of lying in coffins to get rid of bad luck and prolong life, The Coffine is a supernatural thriller about a young man and woman who go through this ritual. The Coffin was shot in Bangkok and five other provinces across Thailand and includes a 100-year-old Thai temple, an ancient meditation cave, actual cemeteries and inside active crematorium chambers.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Beautiful Boxer
16 Mar | 6pm | UCC Function Room 2
Free admission. *Fully Registered*
Thailand | 2004 | 118mins | PG | English, Thai, Japanese with English subtitles
Beautiful Boxer confronts issues of sexuality and gender in the high octane real-life world of Muay Thai. Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, the film chronicles her life from a young boy to her sensational career as a kickboxer.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Nodame Cantabile I
10 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission. Registration required.
Hideki Takeuchi | Japan | 2009
122 min | PG | Japanese with English subtitles
Nodame Cantabile II
22 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Education Resource Centre
Free admission. Registration required.
Yasuhiro Kawamura, Hideki Takeuchi | Japan | 2010
123 mins | PG | Japanese with English subtitles
Created by Tomoko Ninomiya as a manga, and serialized both as an anime and live action drama series, Nodame Cantabile is the quirky love story of two very opposite people, Megumi Noda (Nodame), a talented, lovable but eccentric piano student and the arrogant perfectionist Shinichi Chiaki.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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David
17 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Education Resource Centre
Free admission. *Fully Registered*
Joel Fendelman & Patrick Daly | USA | 2011
80 mins | PG | English
There will be a post-show dialogue with writer, producer and co-director, Patrick Daly.
2011 Recipient of the esteemed Ecumenical Prize awarded at the Montreal World Film Festival. >
One boy. Two faiths. As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, 11 year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father and his feelings of isolation and difference. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys and is drawn into a complicated dilemma inspired by youthful deceit and the best of intentions.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Dolphin Boy
21 Mar | 7.30pm | Auditorium, Stephen Riady Centre
Free admission. Registration required.
Dani Menkin & Yonatan Nir | Israel | 2011 | 72 mins
PG | Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles
Morad is a teenager from an Arab village who disconnects himself from humans after a violent attack and is taken by his devoted father to be treated with Dolphins in Eilat. Filmed over four years, this documentary traces the devastating havoc that human violence can wreak upon the human soul and the healing powers of nature and of love.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film with your tickets. In the event of a fully-registered screening, unclaimed seats may be released 10 minutes before the start of the film on a first-come-first-served basis.
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