The Singapore Art Museum presents its second Southeast Asian Film Festival. Focused on contemporary Singapore and its immediate neighbours, the Festival extends the reach of the Museum’s Southeast Asian exhibitions and continues its mission to showcase and document the most contemporary visual art and cultural expressions of the region. The Festival will be featuring 20 challenging works by Southeast Asia’s key and rising filmmakers, 19 of which are Singapore premieres. Noted films include Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s gritty and fantastical Fable of the Fish, Kamila Andini’s (daughter of Garin Nugroho) debut feature The Mirror Never Lies, Pham Nhue Giang’s lyrical Mother’s Soul and Before We Forget, a documentary by young Singaporeans Jeremy Boo and Lee Xian Jie. Additionally, there will be a special directors’ panel on Southeast Asian cinema, and 12 post-screening discussions.