Singapore Panorama
With its unwavering focus on local cinema, Singapore Panorama is dedicated to presenting the latest films from Singapore filmmakers across various stages of their careers.
This year’s selection sees 16 short films across three programmes. By addressing evolving societal concerns and reinvigorating time-honoured themes in original ways, they broaden our view of what Singaporean cinema can be.
Programme 1: There’s Gotta Be More
23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM / 86 min / NC16 / Filmhouse, Redrum
The stuffy 9-to-5, the BTO ballot, the slow ride up the life escalator we don’t even remember stepping onto.
We do the things we’re meant to do, until one day we notice a fissure, a crack, a signal that perhaps there’s more to life than this.
Everything’s Peachy
Pipa, a kitchen hand, lands her dream job working for a head chef whom she greatly admires. But the facades crack when she discovers a grisly secret.
Nah Yee Chern / Singapore / 2026 / 8 min / NC16 (Mature Content) / Singapore Premiere
It’s Not Sweet
Eleven-year-old Hong and his sister are only allowed to eat watermelon the day before his birthday buffet—a family tradition that is increasingly difficult to uphold amid strife.
Cheryl Wong / Singapore / 2026 / 12 min / PG / World Premiere
Adrift / A Rift
An omniscient voice narrates the dissolution of a relationship against a montage of faceless malaise set in a beach resort.
Enze Kay / Singapore / 2026 / 10 min / PG / World Premiere
Daphne as Woman (Crying)
Daphne joins an audition hoping to revive her acting career. But when a casting assistant pushes her beyond reasonable limits, the session turns confessional, revealing ugly truths about the industry.
Maximilian Liang / Singapore / 2026 / 14 min / PG / World Premiere
Low-Hanging Fruit
A trans woman discovers a mysterious pair of artefacts and tries to sell them on the black market, hoping to escape her past. Meanwhile, a consciousness waits for a body to inhabit.
Chong Lii / Singapore / 2026 / 19 min / PG13 (Scene of Intimacy) / World Premiere
Singaporeans at Gyeongbokgung Palace
Standing at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, a filmmaker sardonically imagines the conversations of the crowd as if they were Singaporean.
Seth Cheong / Singapore / 2026 / 8 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language) / World Premiere
Coast to Coast
An overworked Singaporean bureaucrat sent to fix the office printer finds the errand spiralling into a surreal odyssey across the island.
Megan Lim En / Singapore / 2026 / 15 min / PG / World Premiere
Programme 2: Second Life, Second Skin
24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM / 58 min / Rating To Be Advised / Filmhouse, Redrum
As the world closes in on us like a dark, hard shell, the old self comes undone. These films send us into the unknown, awakening endless possibilities or the end of things as we know it.
Kiss Me Climax
When the latest chapter of her favourite manga leaves Angel feeling hot and heavy, she dips into her imagination in search of sweet relief.
Shara Tay / Singapore / 2025 / 5 min / M18 (Sexual References) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Subterranea
While a teenage girl feels utterly trapped in ennui, the magic of Singapore’s natural world begins to rumble, threatening to break the levee.
Ash Goh Hua / Singapore / 2026 / 14 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language) / World Premiere
REANIMATOR
After a filmmaker revisits a core childhood memory that sparked his fear of bugs, he decides to taxidermise a dead bee, giving his fear a creative outlet.
Syahmi Iman / Singapore / 2026 / 6 min / PG / World Premiere
Orang Minyak
Rayyan reluctantly spends his 16th birthday at the beach. When he suddenly finds oil stains on his body, he becomes convinced that a mysterious entity is stalking him.
Leon Cheo / Singapore / 2026 / 18 min / NC16 (Some Coarse Language) / World Premiere
Encik
Implicated in a young serviceman’s death, an army warrant officer finds himself questioning the very institution that has defined him most of his life.
Ewan Leong / Singapore / 2026 / 15 min / World Premiere
Programme 3: Borders / Barriers
25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM / 82 min / R21 / Filmhouse, Redrum
Watching the waves crash against a long spine of stone, we wonder whether the seawall is keeping us safe, or keeping us from certain truths we’d rather not let in.
Son Of A
When a Vietnamese child mysteriously shows up at James and his father’s hawker stall, the two men handle the situation differently, with the child’s fate hanging in the balance.
Jacob Tan / Singapore / 2026 / 19 min / PG / World Premiere
Dazing Gaze
A Grindr match sends two men from Singapore across the border for a night away from prying eyes—but something shifts as their gaze turns inwards onto themselves.
Daryl Cheong / Singapore, Malaysia / 2026 / 17 min / R21 (Homosexual Theme) / World Premiere
Her Silence
When the parents of an international student visit her in Sydney, she contends with her mother’s quiet disapproval of her life there. Familial tensions are wrapped in reticence and slight gestures in this family drama.
Lionel Seah / Singapore, Australia / 2026 / 17 min / PG / Asian Premiere
What Remains at Dawn
In Singapore, executions happen at dawn. Across a decade of border crossings, appeals and silence, two sisters fight to save their brother as he writes poetry from death row.
Nicholas Tan / Taiwan, Singapore / 2026 / 29 min / R21 (Mature Content) / World Premiere