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Film Festival Defends Controversial Film Amid Political Pressure
The Singapore International Film Festival is standing by Hur Jin-ho’s ‘The Assassin(s)’ despite demands from South Korea's conservative lawmakers to remove it. The film festival faces political pressure but remains committed to its programming.
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Variety
The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it. The festival made no mention of the PPP in a st
2026-10-07 08:25 UTC