To Singapore, with Love (2013)
星国恋
Tan Pin Pin employs a strictly external perspective for this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, interviewing political exiles in London, Thailand and Malaysia, who are to this day unable to return home.
- Date of release
- 2013-10-06
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Tan Pin Pin
Casting
- Swee Chai Ang — Herself
- Sun Wing Chan — Himself
- Mr. & Mrs Hee Kim Tan — Themselves
- Juan Thai Ho — Himself
- Mr. & Mrs Jin He — Themselves
- Francis Khoo — Himself (archive footage)
- Bo Liu — Himself
- Wah Piow Tan — Himself
- Soon Fong Wong — Himself
- Said Zahari — Himself
Interesting facts
To Singapore, With Love is a 2013 Singaporean documentary film written and directed by Tan Pin Pin. It features interviews with nine Singaporean political dissidents, former activists, and student leaders who fled Singapore from the 1960s to 1980s, living in exile. It is banned in Singapore.
Production
The film was made with the support of the Busan International Film Festival's Asian Cinema Fund.
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