Zee previews the much-feted Singapore art film Be With Me and found its depiction of teenage lesbian romance to be refreshingly unsentimental and objective.
Dubbed the lesbian cousin to Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, out writer/director Alice Wu's rave debut feature, Saving Face, has proven to be a hit with lesbian viewers in the US and elsewhere.
Imagine a film populated with penguins, replacing the customary roles of human actors. This is not Madagascar - this film marches to a different drum beat.
Awarded a Silver Bear for Individual Artistic Contribution, the Alfred Bauer prize and the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlinale this year; Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's The Wayward Cloud shocks audiences with its explicit sex scenes alternated with kitschy song and dance numbers.
Soh Yun-Huei reviews Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, which traces the parallel stories of two young men coming to terms with their sexuality and scarred boyhoods.
In My Father's Den is one of those rare cinematic creatures: It is a quiet and slow-burning film that explores the human geography of grief, jealousy, misunderstanding and revenge. But if you think that those last four nouns alone might imply a sad and depressing time for the audience, you'd be wrong.
Show your support for HIV prevention and community education, catch the "coming-of-age and coming-out" comedy of the year, Summer Storm, on April 20 in Singapore.
Fridae's Alvin Tan catches the supernatural-action thriller Constantine and swoons over the movie's gorgeous anti-hero, otherworldly denizens and their keen fashion sense.
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