After recently winning the Fedeora Award for Best Film at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, and now announced as a nominee for six awards, including the Best Feature Film at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards, The Road to Mandalay by Myanmar-born, Taiwanese director Midi Z will premiere in Singapore as part of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).The film will make its Singapore premiere as one of the Festival’s Special Presentation Films on 1 December 2016 at the Marina Bay Sands.
The Road to Mandalay is a powerful and tragic love story that follows two illegal immigrants from Myanmar on a journey to Thailand seeking a better future. Starring Taiwanese actor-singer and Best New Actor at the 48th Golden Horse Awards Kai Ko and Best Actress at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Tokyo Wu Ke-Xi, the film examines the exploitative conditions and experience of millions of Burmese migrants who crossed their country’s border into Thailand looking for work and fleeing the civil war in recent years.
Following its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, The Road to Mandalay continued its festival circuit run at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival. The recipient of ARTE International Prize at the 2015 L’Atelier of Cinefondation of Festival de Cannes will also be screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival this month and as the closing film of the upcoming Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on 24 November 2016, before its premiere in Singapore.
The 27th edition of SGIFF, which runs from 23 November to 4 December 2016, will take place across various venues, including Marina Bay Sands, which returns this year as Presenting Sponsor. A fervent supporter of the arts, Marina Bay Sands is lending support to the Festival for the third consecutive year.
As part of Sands for Singapore, the integrated resort’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Marina Bay Sands aims to provide a distinguished platform for Asian filmmakers through its world-class venues. The other screening venues are National Museum of Singapore Gallery Theatre, Shaw Theatres Lido, National Gallery Singapore Auditorium, The Arts House Screening Room, Filmgarde Bugis+ and Objectifs Chapel Gallery. Ticket sales for SGIFF will begin on 28 October 2016.
