Singapore's Film Festival Brings Back the Stand-Alone Closing Slot, With a Livestream-Era Caper

The Singapore International Film Festival will wrap its 37th edition on Nov. 1 with "Vintage Violence," Eugene Kotlyarenko's livestream-era crime caper starring Cole Sprouse. The film came up through the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto Film Festival.

The booking detail worth noticing is the format: SGIFF is restoring a stand-alone closing-night screening, something it last staged in 2014. Festival closing slots are curated statements as much as logistics, and handing the final night to a film that arrived via a midnight genre programme suggests the marquee is no longer reserved for prestige drama.