you may order or purchase tickets through the following ways:
1. We have a ticketing booth at the College Section central plaza, 2-4 pm, 15th-17th August (Wed to Fri)
2. Visit http://iris.whatlah.com/order.php to order tickets online! Tickets can be collected from us beforehand or at the door on the screening day.So what are you waiting for? Get your tickets while stocks last!
For the film synopses and screening schedule, please refer to the details below. Should you have any enquires, you may direct them to Benjamin via phone at 93371693 or Kuang Li via email at
skmaniasg@hotmail.comScreening Schedule and Film SynopsesFilm Screening Schedule
20th August (AUDITORIUM): Squatterpunk, Can and Slippers, Literature, Amen
22nd August (LT3): Can and Slippers, Amen, Rugby Boyz, Our Daily Bread, Soft Night, Small Ali, Greaseman, Old East Side
24th August (LT3): Squatterpunk, Greaseman, Shooting Star, Old East SideAll screenings begin at 7pm and end at about 9 pm.
Film SynopsesScreening session
1 – Spotlight Philippines, Khavn de la Cruz1) Squatterpunk (79 min) – Feature FilmSet in the slums of Manila where law enforcement is rare, Squatterpunk chronicles the punk lifestyles of the youth as they scavenge the garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around. A film that casts a tenderly poetic eye at the squalor of Philippine society.
2) Can and Slippers (2:18 min)A young boy from the Manila slums plays football with a can of Coke as his soccerball and a pair of slippers as his soccer shoes. When he finishes by shooting a goal at a rubbish dump, the camera pans out to show us he has only one leg and is moving around on crutches
3) Literature (6:48 min)Based on Joel Toledo’s poem of the same title. This poem is part of the collection that won Second Prize for Poetry in the 2004 Palanca Awards
4) Amen (15 min)“Amen” is a cultural satire on blind obedience, specifically the Filipino tradition of “mano”, placing the hand of an elder on one’s forehead as a superficial sign of respect
5) Rugby Boyz (8:00 min)These boys know the dual essence of rugby: playing football and sniffing solvent. They tell vampire jokes, rap about river deaths, and dive jack-knife into murky water. An ironic commentary on the hope these children bring
6) Our Daily Bread (4:40 min)Every night, a family repeats the same actions of collecting, selling and eating garbage. A short documentary on how one family lives out each day to earn their daily bread and how one man’s trash is literally transformed into this family’s treasure
7) Soft Night (2:15 min)This film is set to piano music and the lines of Soft Night, a poem by Armando Subido, which are presented as subtitles. The visuals consist of images of different women taking towards the camera juxtaposed with images of the natural and man-made environment.
8) Small Ali (7:22 min)Due to his bad crying habit, Small Ali always loses his fight with Mad Cow, the paperweight boxing champ. Fortunately, he saw an ad of Klinika Lakrima which promises to remove tears through a surgical operation.
9) The Passenger (Moving Along)Bus passengers trade their valuables like pearl necklaces, guns and tears for a lift to their destination
10) Shooting StarA pianist serenades a shooting star, which seems to be associated with a young lady whose image appears periodically in the short film.
11) Greaseman (15 min)A psychedelic silent-film about the contrapuntal lives of a Greaseman (Third-world bum) and a Yuppie, intersecting and interchanging, one hazy night. An improvisatory “Prince and Pauper” shot in a day.
12) OldEastSideFilmed in accelerated motion, the gritty underbelly of a city is exposed via a series of disjointed events. However, amidst the violence and disorder, glimpses of hope in humanity persist
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