Dialects

Dear You free screenings for SPH Media’s Chinese Media Group readers, listeners from July 2 to 5

The screenings will be at GV Yishun, GV Tampines and GV VivoCity.

IMDA approves 50 additional Teochew screenings of popular Chinese movie Dear You

Clover Films and GV submitted a request to the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) for approval for up to 50 more such sessions.

Mandarin or dialect, there’s no need to pick sides, says Promote Mandarin Council

The council’s statement comes a day after MDDI said it is open to facilitating and supporting further Teochew screenings of Chinese movie Dear You.

Dear You distributor, Golden Village seeking IMDA approval for up to 50 more Teochew screenings

The original version of Dear You, in Teochew, is being screened at GVMax in VivoCity.

MDDI open to more Teochew screenings of Dear You; more flexible approach planned for dialect films

IMDA will also take a more flexible approach in considering applications for dialect films to be more freely screened in cinemas.

All additional screenings of Teochew movie Dear You sold out within 1½ hours of sales starting

Tickets for additional screenings of the movie in its original dialect went up at 3pm on June 22.

8 more screenings of Teochew movie Dear You in original dialect at GV from June 25-29

Ticket sales for these eight screenings will start on June 22 at 3pm at all GV box office counters and online sales channels, the operator said.

If the Speak Mandarin Campaign succeeded, why are we still afraid of Teochew?

The film Dear You has inadvertently reopened a debate on one of Singapore’s oldest cultural trade-offs: what we gained from the Speak Mandarin Campaign, and what it cost us.

Singapore film-makers want Chinese movie Dear You to be screened in Teochew here

Actors Zheng Huisong (left) and Wang Yantong (right) in the Chinese film Dear You.

Forum: Time to allow dialect films to engage audiences in their natural tongues

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