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‘Small Hours of the Night,’ Film About Censorship, Banned in Singapore and Pulled From Festival
“Small Hours of the Night,” by Singapore's Daniel Hui, has been denied a theatrical release in the director's home country.
The city-state’s authorities have refused the film a release certificate, meaning that it is effectively banned and that the festival cannot go forward with the docu-drama’s planned screening in its Undercurrents section. In the early years of Singapore’s independence (from the British Empire in 1963 and from Malaysia in 1965), Tan Chay Wa had been an armed activist, possibly a Communist, who rejected the two countries’ separation. However, I remain hopeful that one day, we will have a discursive space in Singapore that is gracious and generous enough to include diverse voices and points of view,” said Hui in a statement.
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