2016-04-18

SINGAPORE - Two decades after self-taught Singapore film-maker K. Rajagopal took flight as an award-winning director of short films, he will finally debut his feature-length work. A Yellow Bird has been selected to screen at International Critics' Week, a parallel section of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which will be held this year from May 11 to 22. The Singapore flag is flying high at the festival. Last week, it was announced that film-maker Boo Junfeng's second feature, prison drama Apprentice, would be part of the Un Certain Regard line-up. The Un Certain Regard highlights new directors and films which are more adventurous than those in the main competition. Rajagopal, who is in Kerala on a personal trip, tells The Straits Times in an email that while the selection committee gave him "positive comments" after viewing the film, he was still on tenterhooks while...

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