Explore Films

Meet three trailblazers of the underground ballroom scenes in Southeast Asia and their communities in this candid documentary.

2 Dec, Tue 7:00PM

5 Dec, Fri 2:00PM

In this genre-bending satire on love, politics and memory, a ghost returns to haunt a vacuum cleaner and prove her love for her living husband.

6 Dec, Sat 7:00PM

7 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

Children’s poetry and a boy’s life in rural China frame this beautifully atmospheric, arresting and sensitive rumination on childhood.

3 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

4 Dec, Thu 9:00PM

A crew of misfits chafe against an oppressive school environment in this empathetic portrait of youthful defiance.

29 Nov, Sat 7:30PM

1 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

Ten-year-old Arco accidentally time travels from the year 2932 to 2075, where he is befriended by a lonely girl raised by a robot.

27 Nov, Thu 7:00PM

29 Nov, Sat 2:00PM

Four home-based business owners navigate ambition, identity and domestic life as the boundaries between work and home blur.

30 Nov, Sun 9:30PM

The guardian spirit of a cinema that is about to be demolished becomes friends with a human as she faces the prospect of rebirth.

1 Dec, Mon 9:00PM

A death in an antique shop activates a maze of possible worlds where actors, filmmakers and obsessions intertwine through cinema.

30 Nov, Sun 10:00AM

6 Dec, Sat 10:00AM

A queer artist tries to engage with her avoidant mother in this inventively animated film.

1 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

Selfish and a burden all his life, Riko’s brother suddenly dies. She has four days before seeing him off on his final journey.

29 Nov, Sat 2:00PM

This film is a queer reimagining of Bonnie and Clyde, set against the backdrop of 1970s countercultural Japan.

28 Nov, Fri 4:30PM

In this gentle queer drama, a grieving city dweller reconnects with a childhood friend and navigates traditions in his rural hometown.

3 Dec, Wed 9:00PM

4 Dec, Thu 4:30PM

As an alumni choir takes to the world stage, their journey raises questions about competition and growth.

3 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

A lonely Japanese man grieving his mother’s death follows a Filipina caregiver to Manila, discovering life and connection amid loss.

30 Nov, Sun 9:00PM

A classic Chinese novel is given a new setting in 1970s Singapore, where burgeoning affections are challenged by the decline of a wealthy family.

4 Dec, Thu 7:00PM

A father’s quest through Georgia’s crumbling football fields turns into a haunting meditation on the fading of memory and spaces.

29 Nov, Sat 10:00AM

A young Parsi girl whose Hindu nanny is wooed by two Muslim suitors bears witness to the violent Partition of India and Pakistan.

6 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

A carefully constructed triptych of stories about the relationships between adult children, their parents and each other.

1 Dec, Mon 7:00PM

Two sisters-in-law in unhappy marriages form a romantic relationship in this powerful examination of female desire and agency.

6 Dec, Sat 4:30PM

A young boy, Arjie, comes of age and navigates his sexuality amidst escalating racial tensions leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983.

7 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

Caught between inherited sorrow and a longing for freedom, a young girl must navigate the shadows of a life she never chose.

26 Nov, Wed 8:00PM

27 Nov, Thu 2:00PM

A home movie like no other, ensconced in the tradition of silent film, and a poetically pedagogical archive of a vanishing community.

30 Nov, Sun 2:00PM

Art is born of sorrow and holds the power to heal in this devastating story on the creation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

3 Dec, Wed 2:00PM

7 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

A hen seeks refuge in a crumbling Greek eatery, guarding her eggs as a human tragedy unfolds.

28 Nov, Fri 9:00PM

29 Nov, Sat 9:30PM

Three grade schoolers in Japan become fed up with adults causing global warming and team up to teach them a lesson.

6 Dec, Sat 7:30PM

Fren’s job is to find perfect human resources. Now pregnant, she must decide whether to create one of her own.

4 Dec, Thu 2:00PM

6 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

An insecure Portuguese environmental engineer with a saviour complex seeks to assimilate with locals in Guinea-Bissau.

6 Dec, Sat 10:00AM

A dreamlike yet analytical exploration of convergences between humans and animals in the city.

28 Nov, Fri 7:00PM

A man believes he has found his torturer, setting off a journey that explores the fragility of memory and the cost of justice.

30 Nov, Sun 7:00PM

2 Dec, Tue 4:30PM

Due to a lack of family connections to the kabuki establishment, a yakuza’s son struggles for decades to gain true recognition.

7 Dec, Sun 10:00AM

An elderly man mulling over his legacy must decide between his duty to the Church or the people in his final act as Italy’s president.

7 Dec, Sun 9:00PM

Obscure poet and post office worker Ed finds himself unexpectedly revered by a group of young artists, including a charismatic actress.

30 Nov, Sun 2:00PM

5 Dec, Fri 4:30PM

An introverted space princess must save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from Straight White Maliens in this madcap animated comedy.

29 Nov, Sat 4:30PM

A disabled documentary filmmaker maps the intersection of morality, finance and politics in the rise of assisted dying policies.

6 Dec, Sat 9:30PM

Two siblings must traverse perilous waters to leave their Rohingya camp in Bangladesh and reunite with their family in Malaysia.

29 Nov, Sat 9:30PM

After the Mag Mag curse strikes her crush, Sanae’s pursuit of justice unfolds through intertwining stories of love and rejection.

6 Dec, Sat 4:30PM

7 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

When Kuve visits a postwar country to make a film, he is challenged by Mumbi to work without AI and discovers life’s poetry.

30 Nov, Sun 9:30PM

A performance lecture that draws unexpected connections between animal behaviours and human systems of knowledge.

28 Nov, Fri 7:00PM

For the displaced, even the smallest gestures of care and intimacy are suffused with the regulating force of colonial pedagogy.

30 Nov, Sun 2:00PM

Two young brothers spend a miraculous day with their preoccupied father in Lagos, 1993; around them hangs the fate of democracy.

29 Nov, Sat 9:30PM

This hybrid film imagines ways that survivors of state-sanctioned violence in Thailand could seek justice.

4 Dec, Thu 7:00PM

The nine-year battle to bring to trial the murderers of an Indigenous leader in Argentina exposes the colonial legacy that enabled them.

2 Dec, Tue 7:00PM

Openly queer punk-rock band Shh… Diam! turns up their music against rising conservatism and political upheaval in Malaysia.

30 Nov, Sun 4:30PM

7 Dec, Sun 7:00PM

After relocating to the Welsh countryside, a couple is visited by a child who attempts to become part of their family.

5 Dec, Fri 9:30PM

A teenager rebuilds his life in post-genocide Sinjar, searching for identity and healing, carrying hope through the trauma of imprisonment.

27 Nov, Thu 9:00PM

A lonely American actor in Tokyo steps into the lives of strangers, finding new purpose as their stories begin to shape his own.

3 Dec, Wed 9:00PM

Resurrection is Bi Gan’s love letter to cinema and a meditation on the endurance of dreams amidst fading images.

27 Nov, Thu 8:00PM

A police convoy stretches into a relentless yet meditative road trip in this intense study of character, conscience and conviction.

6 Dec, Sat 2:00PM

7 Dec, Sun 11:00AM

Blending slapstick chaos with incisive satire, a struggling Singaporean stunt school faces mayhem when wannabe superheroes arrive.

30 Nov, Sun 7:00PM

An ageing director seeks to reconnect with his estranged adult daughters while preparing for his comeback film in their family home.

2 Dec, Tue 2:00PM

7 Dec, Sun 7:00PM

When a young woman leaves Delhi and returns to her Himalayan hometown, she grapples with its increasingly suffocating expectations.

6 Dec, Sat 9:00PM

7 Dec, Sun 2:00PM

In 1940s Shanghai, a woman accused of brutally murdering her husband becomes an unlikely symbol of resistance and survival.

28 Nov, Fri 2:00PM

2 Dec, Tue 7:00PM

The lives of four girls from different eras, each spending a summer on a German farm, intertwine and echo one another across time.

30 Nov, Sun 10:30AM

1 Dec, Mon 4:30PM

An attractive captain awakens the yearning for love in a widow and her daughter in this retelling of a Ming Dynasty folktale.

2 Dec, Tue 4:30PM

An evocative blend of performance and documentary inspired by real-life experiences of political activists in Bangkok.

4 Dec, Thu 7:00PM

On the cusp of adulthood, a pair of fraternal twins with a telepathic connection grow apart when they meet an alluring new teacher.

4 Dec, Thu 7:00PM

5 Dec, Fri 4:30PM

A sensitive exploration of two sisters whose dreams and aspirations come up against insurmountable class barriers.

30 Nov, Sun 4:30PM

In 1982, an eleven-year-old girl in Chile comes of age with her loving queer family, who are accused of spreading a strange disease.

2 Dec, Tue 9:30PM

An elderly widower preparing to migrate finds himself increasingly reluctant to part with his vintage Mercedes sedan.

28 Nov, Fri 9:00PM

A teenager wanders Beirut dreaming of love and life. War has ravaged the city but also sparks her unlikely bond with an older artist.

29 Nov, Sat 7:30PM

A professor is on the run after locking horns with a politician who deems his department’s research a threat to his business.

28 Nov, Fri 4:30PM

29 Nov, Sat 10:00AM

Revolution does not come cheaply, as a gang of anti-colonial hopefuls find when present passions test their dreams of a future.

5 Dec, Fri 7:00PM

This film turns its gaze to scriptwriters, asking how lives are written, translated and transformed through cinema.

3 Dec, Wed 4:30PM

5 Dec, Fri 9:30PM

A dancer’s movements and a tour guide’s stories reveal Japan’s subterranean histories in this poetic film.

2 Dec, Tue 9:30PM

Eight-year-old Roberta bears witness to her family of seven spirited women dealing with the threat of having their house repossessed.

3 Dec, Wed 4:30PM

This nocturnal, immersive film offers glimpses of the daily routines of a group of migrant smugglers living on the Balkan border.

3 Dec, Wed 7:00PM

A sobering look at child marriage and the fate of Hindu widows in India against the backdrop of Gandhian anti-colonialism.

4 Dec, Thu 4:30PM

A poet dropping off his girlfriend at her mansion is drawn into a night of food, wine and words, where strangers grow closer.

1 Dec, Mon 4:30PM

7 Dec, Sun 9:30PM

An ethereal portrait of Odesa and its travellers, cats, labourers, artists and children who go on dreaming and surviving amidst war.

7 Dec, Sun 4:30PM

The classrooms of a new generation transform into vibrant forums inspired by Annie Ernaux’s powerful writing and open dialogue.

1 Dec, Mon 9:30PM