Horizon
Horizon offers a bird’s-eye view of contemporary world cinema, bringing together diverse filmic discoveries and celebrated works from the international festival circuit.
Featuring visionary, established auteurs alongside bold emerging talents, these 17 compelling films present powerful stories from across the globe—deepening our consciousness of the universal human condition and expanding our own horizons with every single frame.
Opening Film
Mayilaa
In this exuberant spin on the road movie, a rural mother-daughter pair become unlikely salespeople as they navigate inequalities and faith.
Semmalar Annam / India / 2026 / 94 min / NC16 (Some Coarse Language) / Singapore Premiere
Special Presentation
Look Back
Fujino draws to be seen, while Kyomoto draws to hide. Together they make manga, and discover what art can and cannot hold.
Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 2026 / 100 min / PG (Brief Nudity) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Feature Films
All of a Sudden
Enveloped in care and tenderness, the conversations between a Paris nursing home director and a dying Japanese playwright become a space for gradual transformation.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi / France, Japan, Germany, Belgium / 2026 / 196 min / PG / Singapore Premiere
Everytime
In this intimate study of grief, a mother, daughter and teenage boy are drawn into the orbit of an absent loved one. They take a trip to a seaside resort, where reality shimmers under the glistening sun and time folds into itself.
Sandra Wollner / Austria, Germany / 2026 / 124 min / NC16 (Some Drug Use and Coarse Language) / Singapore Premiere
Filipiñana
In this stylish and darkly funny feature debut, a tee girl’s mission to return a golf club to the country club president leads her to uncover sinister secrets about her workplace, exposing elite society’s dark underbelly.
Rafael Manuel / Singapore, UK, Philippines, France, Netherlands / 2026 / 99 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language and Sexual References) / Singapore Premiere
House of the Wind
An elderly woman builds a house to entice her children working in Europe to return to Cameroon, but a surprising companionship with a young woman in her neighbourhood upends all she believed about familial ties.
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu / Cameroon, France, Belgium, Benin, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / 2026 / 105 min / PG / Asian Premiere
Josephine
After eight-year-old Josephine witnesses a violent crime, the trauma lingers in profound ways as her parents try to shield her from adult realities.
Beth de Araujo / USA / 2026 / 121 min / M18 (Sexual Violence) / Singapore Premiere
Minotaur
As Russia descends into war, an influential businessowner in a small town decides whose lives are disposable. His betrayals pile up, exposing the moral and political corruption that insulates the powerful while the world burns.
Andrey Zvyagintsev / France, Germany, Latvia / 2026 / 141 min / M18 (Nudity) / Singapore Premiere
Nagi Notes
Against the backdrop of idyllic mountains and sounds of gunfire from a military camp, an architect arrives in Nagi to model for a sculpture by her ex-sister-in-law. Over eight days, both find themselves confronting unresolved loss and desires.
Koji Fukada / Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines / 2026 / 110 min / M18 (Some Homosexual Content) / Singapore Premiere
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
An experimental filmmaker’s reunion with her mother after a decade’s absence hides a quietly transformative quality in this ruminative work in Hong’s prolific oeuvre.
Hong Sang-soo / South Korea / 2026 / 72 min / PG / Southeast Asian Premiere
Possible Love
A working-class family and a wealthy couple become entangled as they make a documentary together. Tensions simmer and loyalties shift in Lee Chang-dong’s exquisite, slow-burn drama, which asks if the distance between people can ever be closed.
Lee Chang-dong / South Korea / 2026 / 164 min / Rating To Be Advised / Southeast Asian Premiere
Rose
A battle-scarred soldier arrives at a village, with an inheritance and a deep secret about their identity. Sandra Hüller spellbindingly leads this compact period saga about the violence of gender norms as well as the utopias of desire that cannot be contained.
Markus Schleinzer / Austria, Germany / 2026 / 93 min / M18 (Sexual Scene and Some Nudity) / Singapore Premiere
Shame and Money
A family in rural Kosovo leave their farm to find work in the capital. Mired in familial obligation, caregiving and financial precarity, their survival becomes dependent on the whims of strangers.
Visar Morina / Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium / 2026 / 129 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building
In this coming-of-age docufiction, an eleven-year-old reckons with his queer identity while coping with his father’s HIV diagnosis amid the moral panic of the 1990s AIDS epidemic.
Bruno Santamaría Razo / Mexico, Brazil, Denmark / 2026 / 104 min / R21 (Homosexual Theme) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Tangles
A young graphic artist returns home to care for her mother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In the process, she finds grief, comedy and first love tangled together in a household relearning how to love a person they thought they knew.
Leah Nelson / Canada, USA / 2026 / 102 min / R21 (Homosexual Content) / Singapore Premiere
The Days Off
As the moon threatens to ‘eclipse’ animals and people around her, 12-year-old Bego meets REN__, an online friend who teaches her how to ‘shift’ into her desired reality.
Lucila Mariani / Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France / 2026 / 84 min / Southeast Asian Premiere
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Gianina leaves behind her daughter in Romania to cook, clean and care for a family in France. At night, she rehearses a scandalous play about domestic servants—a vulgar, exaggerated version of the exploitation she quietly endures.
Radu Jude / France, Romania / 2026 / 94 min / NC16 (Coarse Language and Sexual References) / Southeast Asian Premiere