Explore Films

In a hospital ward, an unexpected friendship forms between Rong, who works in film, and a British expatriate. Their shared love for cinema ignites new desires to realise their dreams.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

A moving depiction of Palestinian elder Amine’s multiple displacements in the context of broader geopolitical histories.

7 Dec, Sat 7:30PM

A young filmmaker documents her pilgrimage to the last location of her late best friend in this letter of love and grief.

30 Nov, Sat 2:00PM

6 Dec, Fri 9:30PM

Activists on the boat Al Awda prepare for clashes with the Israeli military as they sail towards Gaza in an attempt to break the blockade.

7 Dec, Sat 7:30PM

In Hong Kong, a woman mourning the sudden passing of her lifelong partner navigates grief that unfolds in queer time.

29 Nov, Fri 9:30PM

3 Dec, Tue 5:00PM

A filmmaker returns to an unfinished work, determined to complete his vision as creativity clashes with life’s shifting priorities in a changing world.

3 Dec, Tue 8:00PM

4 Dec, Wed 2:00PM

A pregnant woman, suspicious of her husband’s romantic relationship with his carabao, schemes to banish her beastly rival and reclaim her title as the fairest creature of the land.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

Journalists and activists working to expose Russia’s poison programme are placed on a kill list in this high-stakes documentary.

29 Nov, Fri 9:00PM

30 Nov, Sat 11:00AM

A medical mishap compels an obstetrician moonlighting as an abortionist to risk her livelihood in defence of her values.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

8 Dec, Sun 5:30PM

A moving, empathetic documentary on psychiatric care and the inner worlds of patients.

1 Dec, Sun 7:00PM

Aggravated by the incessant barking of a dog in his neighbourhood, a young man sets out on a frantic mission to put an end to it.

3 Dec, Tue 9:30PM

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

A young woman runs away from home to follow a bit player in low-budget films.

8 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

A high schooler’s entrance into a well-off family upends its fragile equilibrium as buried desires are forced into light.

30 Nov, Sat 9:00PM

8 Dec, Sun 8:00PM

The lines between artmaking and lovemaking blur in this playfully flirtatious dramedy set in a women’s arts school.

30 Nov, Sat 9:00PM

2 Dec, Mon 2:00PM

A retired civil servant in Singapore resorts to desperate measures to prevent his house’s demolition for a new train line.

6 Dec, Fri 7:30PM

After a series of humiliating encounters, a war veteran becomes convinced that the only way to move up in life is through crime.

7 Dec, Sat 9:30PM

This taut debut draws from emotion’s extremes and nature’s savagery to deliver a unique take on domestic horror.

30 Nov, Sat 4:30PM

7 Dec, Sat 11:00AM

A poetic examination of the space memories occupy in our existence, through vignettes of two women at different points of their lives.

1 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

6 Dec, Fri 2:00PM

A longitudinal observation of strategies of political resistance in contemporary France.

7 Dec, Sat 10:00AM

A middle-aged woman seeks otherworldly help as her family comes undone in this dark fantasy tale of contemporary womanhood.

29 Nov, Fri 8:30PM

30 Nov, Sat 11:00AM

At her best friend’s wake, Adela’s grief sparks a surreal journey that challenges her understanding of memory and loss.

1 Dec, Sun 9:00PM

2 Dec, Mon 5:00PM

A middle-aged woman and her daughter wind up at the same beauty salon to get their brows embroidered. This chance encounter rekindles their bond as they open up about their life struggles.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

Disquieting and atmospheric, this tale of two brothers on opposite sides of authority leaves more insinuations than answers.

5 Dec, Thu 7:00PM

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

In this existential vignette on urban migration, a mother watches her son’s funeral through a phone while a gravedigger and paid mourner discuss moving to the city.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

A mother recounts her son’s life and his death at the hands of police in this delicate and layered film.

3 Dec, Tue 7:30PM

Ruth, a woman in her eighties, grapples with changes in her mental faculties and sense of self as she navigates the transition to assisted living.

8 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

A performance lecture investigating the connection between history and technology by examining AI’s generative quality.

1 Dec, Sun 1:00PM

This experimental film considers how political prisoners reorder their lives by performing semi-artistic practices.

1 Dec, Sun 7:30PM

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

Overwhelmed by the turmoil in his life, Saiful finds solace in the tranquility of the forest and Buni, its enigmatic inhabitant.

1 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

A man flees marriage and goes on a bizarre odyssey through 1917 Asia, encountering cultural clashes and personal revelation in this offbeat tale.

30 Nov, Sat 7:30PM

5 Dec, Thu 2:00PM

A child builds a new world fashioned from the archival remnants of the old world.

4 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

A group of adolescents rise up against racial inequality and institutional surveillance in this visually striking film.

7 Dec, Sat 11:00AM

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

A gem concealed beneath layers of patriarchy yearns for the light of liberation and recognition.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

Nyi Rai returns to his village after his sister’s unexpected bereavement. He sits down with his parents for the first time, uncovering a history of drug and domestic abuse, and a renewed hope for the future.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

Two teenagers’ obsessive bond over an enigmatic TV show spirals into a disturbing, febrile nightmare.

30 Nov, Sat 9:30PM

7 Dec, Sat 5:00PM

Eliza goes through a day away from work after her abortion.

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

A playful revisiting of Leos Carax’s oeuvre and his many co-collaborators.

4 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

Tempers flare during lunchtime service at The Grill. While the kitchen heats up, questions arise when money goes missing from the register.

1 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

Two friends catch up, reminisce and reflect on their shared youth.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

After moving from rural Japan to Tokyo, a Child of Deaf Adults discovers the value of Deaf culture while contending with his own biases.

7 Dec, Sat 4:30PM

A Thai soldier returns home to find his father suffering from a mysterious illness. The affliction soon spreads in the village like a curse, causing inexplicable events.

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

This expanded cinema explores the hypnotic grip of film and questions its role in shaping our memories and perceptions long after the credits roll.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

Displacing the dominance of Western science, this film embraces a pluralistic means of understanding reality, including Sufi mysticism and monorealism.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

An undocumented Thai migrant reckons with the injustices he is both subjected to and complicit in as a caregiver in rural Taiwan.

4 Dec, Wed 5:00PM

8 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

A woman working for a pyramid scheme laments her fading youth, while a young man idles in wait. As they wander the abandoned apartment building where they live, a quiet seduction grows.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

Jo spends his birthday with his best friend, who teaches him how to ride a motorbike. However, memories of his late mother surface as Jo recalls their time spent together.

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

Mixing archival home footage of a childhood in Jakarta and glimpses of current life in Berlin, a queer nonbinary filmmaker reflects on their chosen life and relationship with their devout Christian parents.

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

Grace, an exhausted mom in Singapore, collapses at work and is admitted to the hospital, where she unexpectedly discovers a new sense of freedom as a patient.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

After returning to her childhood home, a Thai-American finds herself exploring fragments of her Vietnam War-veteran father’s memories through her fungi-infested house.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

A woman embodies the beastliness of motherhood in this Kafka-esque comedy that critiques maternal roles.

7 Dec, Sat 9:00PM

Moving through different incarnations, enigmatic voices fuse with fleeting images extracted from various conditions of ‘Thainess’. As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

Two young men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, are unlikely allies documenting forced displacement in the West Bank together.

4 Dec, Wed 9:00PM

This vibrant debut employs a whirlwind of animation styles to offer shifting perspectives on love with mesmerising fluidity.

30 Nov, Sat 7:00PM

A director and a subject negotiate the terms of representation of legacies.

4 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

A worker’s simmering desire for revenge against his harsh supervisor is waylaid as encounters steer him towards a path of introspection.

5 Dec, Thu 9:00PM

Two WWII prisoners awake stranded on an island. A deadly, fishy secret unfolds and they team up to survive the unknown.

5 Dec, Thu 9:30PM

In a town in Mindanao, earthquakes happen constantly and people mysteriously disappear. When Munya’s mother goes missing, her investigation leads her to discovering the thin line between fantasy and reality.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

On the cusp of Angola’s independence, a woman treks across Luanda to seek and demand the release of her incarcerated husband.

5 Dec, Thu 7:30PM

As Singapore reclaims land to expand urban development, a town bearing its name on the other side of the world lies buried under sand.

1 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

After her father’s passing, Cass enters a vivid dream journey through his spirit’s path to the underworld. She discovers his life experiences and regrets as she comes to terms with her grief.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

A family dinner with a returning daughter turns into a violent confrontation, revealing dirty secrets and uncomfortable lies.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

In a future where climate change has radically transformed landscapes, intense rainfall and eroded coastlines drive a desperate search for alternative freshwater sources.

1 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

A man questions a woman in this psychodrama haunted by the history of Singapore’s systems of deterrence and control.

A long night of camaraderie, chance and cruising in this oneiric celebration of queer belonging.

2 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

4 Dec, Wed 4:30PM

Chinese primary student En Qi struggles with Malay spelling, often confusing it with English. This incurs the wrath of his strict teacher who humiliates and punishes him unsparingly.

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

Legendary singer Claire Emery arrives in Tokyo for what she thinks will be her final concert, only to find herself unexpectedly crossing into a different realm.

30 Nov, Sat 4:30PM

2 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

Feeling as if there is a void in her chest, a woman embarks on a transformative journey with phantasmagorical encounters and karmic connections.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

An allegory of the Ba’athist regime told through the dissolution of the Ghazi family amid wedding chaos.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

The fear and desire of being watched conjure new realisations in this mystery thriller that follows an estranged couple and their stalker.

28 Nov, Thu 8:00PM

29 Nov, Fri 4:00PM

Two Indonesian migrants meet by night in Tainan Park to share poems and tales in this enchanting, formally inventive film.

2 Dec, Mon 5:00PM

8 Dec, Sun 7:30PM

A socially awkward teenage girl, determined to reunite with her estranged father, must convince a mysterious voice to cast her in a reality TV show that could alter her future.

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

An eccentric senior breaks out of her nursing home and crosses paths with a suicidal runaway. They embark on a bizarre and serendipitous adventure, in a night that will change them both forever.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

A pair of siblings must recover their stolen accordion to continue supporting their family.

7 Dec, Sat 9:30PM

When a young woman defies an arranged marriage to her maternal uncle, her family embarks on a religious journey to exorcise the cause of her rebellion.

7 Dec, Sat 9:00PM

8 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

The stories of Iranian women intersect to reveal the brutal realities of a society that denies them agency.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

In the 1950s, three Palestinian refugees put their faith in a smuggler to cross the desert border into Kuwait.

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

Late ’80s, the Himalayan slopes: a magical slow burn reveals the inexorable changes that threaten to reshape the world for good.

30 Nov, Sat 7:30PM

A moving portrayal of the turbulence of adolescence in southern China, melding fantasy and bittersweet realism.

4 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

A moving reflection on life, love and mortality, as one grapples with the inevitability of time’s passage.

1 Dec, Sun 7:30PM

6 Dec, Fri 5:00PM

A man with hair growing wildly over his body is taken by a mania of ecstasy and anguish. He struggles with the hair becoming a means of discipline and punishment, while being overwhelmed by the explosive jubilance of its sprouting.

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

A wild anthology of vampire killings, slapstick chaos and dark, murderous humour.

30 Nov, Sat 2:00PM

In 1970s Japan, a student radical witnesses his comrade’s suicide and becomes obsessed with decoding a reel of film he left behind.

2 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

A family and their dog arrive at a seaside resort, but as their vacation unfolds, hidden wounds emerge, revealing fractured lives.

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

Two childhood best friends reconnect in Phnom Penh after years of separation. A film screening prompts them to wonder about their future together.

7 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

Employing documentary and defamiliarisation approaches, this film depicts workers on an immense structure in a harsh desert landscape.

7 Dec, Sat 4:00PM

A terminally ill woman reconnects with an estranged friend to accompany her in her final days.

30 Nov, Sat 2:00PM

Grief drama meets sci-fi necrophilia in Cronenberg’s latest about a man who designs a device to monitor bodies of the deceased.

3 Dec, Tue 4:30PM

6 Dec, Fri 9:30PM

In this mysterious film, a shaman in northeastern Thailand seems possessed by the spirits of dissidents who suffered a violent death.

7 Dec, Sat 4:00PM

The past of a famous actress begins to haunt her when her estranged sister makes an unexpected return to her life.

6 Dec, Fri 8:00PM

7 Dec, Sat 4:00PM

Wrapped in grief, a mother and son talk about the loss of her husband and her isolation. He invites her to stay with him, but she refuses.

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

Even when under house arrest, Jafar Panahi continues to wield the art of filmmaking as protest in this documentary masterpiece.

8 Dec, Sun 8:00PM

A trio of retired K-pop idols set out for Jeju to discover the island—and themselves—for the first time.

4 Dec, Wed 8:30PM

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

Tropic Temper cracks open Singapore’s code as a site of a disciplined tropics, deconstructing the roots that this garden city has forgotten.

1 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

Iranian poetics meet Winnipegian deadpan humour in a whimsical collision of worlds and cinematic traditions.

30 Nov, Sat 5:00PM

3 Dec, Tue 9:00PM

Neang, an indigenous mother in Cambodia, fights to rebuild her life on her ancestral land after it is flooded by a dam reservoir.

29 Nov, Fri 6:30PM

A lyrical queer love story of two coal miners facing imminent separation, with a touch of magic realism.

5 Dec, Thu 7:30PM

8 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

In cold, urban Taipei, the lives of three lonely people converge as they unwittingly inhabit the same luxury apartment.

1 Dec, Sun 8:00PM

3 Dec, Tue 2:00PM

In the aftermath of an earthquake, a man found in the woods may be the cause of all the natural disasters that devastated a small mountain town.

8 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

A Chinese trainee in a Malaysian National Service camp is ordered to lead her female comrades in washing soiled sanitary pads at night.

7 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

On a Friday in 1992, eleven-year-old Lana answers a call that shatters her carefree world, shaping the memories of her formative years.

2 Dec, Mon 9:00PM

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM

A delicate portrait of the fragility of expression and the enduring fight for personal and artistic truths.

8 Dec, Sun 8:00PM

A young woman finally visits her grandmother who is grappling with old age, after evading and attempting to conceal her breakup with her long-term partner.

1 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

A young, amateur filmmaker documents the protracted and increasingly surreal limbo of refugees awaiting asylum.

2 Dec, Mon 9:30PM

An incisive probe into self-sacrificial family dynamics and intergenerational trauma rendered by tour de force performances.

1 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

A vivid portrayal of the working youth in contemporary China, and a requiem for those who toil in the shadows to keep the market running.

1 Dec, Sun 10:00AM