The SIFF, Singapore International Film Festival is back this year from Apr 15th - May 1st 2004. In its 17th year, the festival will screen 300 films consisting of features, shorts, animations in our main, fringe and special programmes. As usual, the free Fringe screenings begins a week earlier at the Goethe Institut on Apr 8th 2004.

The highlights of this year's programme include a retrospective of Philippines filmmaker/actress Laurice Guillen, who ranks as one of the leading figures in the Filipino new wave of the 70s. The focus on the Philippines will also include the World Premiere of paintings by Filipino animator Rox Lee, while indie filmmakers and musicians rock out through Sinekalye – a street cinema programme will bring live music and short, experimental film together through performance.

Other highlights include a tribute to the Amien Film Festival and African cinema. This is another special event as SIFF has never before shown films from Guinea-Bissau and Congo. Werner Herzog will be given a new perspective by prolific Swiss photographer Beat Presser who has documented many Herzog films through his still photography. Festival highlights this year also include several World Premieres from Singapore and Malaysia as well as a number of International Premieres from Indonesia and the Philippines.

Look out also for our special programmes, such as the Shaw in Blue Tribute, which looks at the erotic films of Li Han-Hsiang and Chu Yuan, the humorous and heartfelt cinema of Paolo Virzi, as well as the much-awaited Blues Series from Martin Scorsese.
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Your wings are BROKEN and tattered. You are
an angelic spirit who has fallen from grace for
one reason or another - possibly, you made one
tragic mistake that cost you everything. Or
maybe you were blamed for a crime you didn't
commit. In any case, you are faithless and
joyless. You find no happiness, love, or
acceptance in your love or in yourself. Most
days are a burden and you wonder when the
hurting will end. Sweet, beautiful and
sorrowful, you paint a tragic and touching
picture. You are the one that few understand.
Those that do know you are likely to love you
deeply and wish that they could do something to
ease your pain. You are constantly living in
memories of better times and a better world.
You are hard on yourself and self-critical or
self-loathing. Feeling rejected and unloved,
you are sensitive, caring, deep, and despite
your tainted nature, your soul is
breathtakingly beautiful.

Image is a painting by Natalya Nesterova,
source:ca80.lehman.cuny.edu/.../
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xiaoqiang says:" Sweet, beautiful and sorrowful, you paint a tragic and touching picture?" did i?