Explore Films

Reuniting with his sister in Yogyakarta, Yanto, a German-Indonesian, or bule, finds that she belongs effortlessly there. As envy and dissonance surface, his journey becomes a bittersweet exploration of his mixed-raced identity.

31 Oct, Sat 5:00PM

In central Anatolia, a woman shares her love of competitive shooting with her friends. While training begins in earnest for an upcoming competition, they face continued dismissal by the men in their community and are subject to demeaning limitations.

30 Oct, Fri 6:15PM

Faced with the imminent death of his mother, a man leads three generations of his family on a single-day temple pilgrimage—where prayer meets doubt, and reason wrestles with superstition.

27 Oct, Tue 3:00PM

31 Oct, Sat 10:30AM

Returning from his uncle’s funeral, a boy becomes curious about his parents and life at home in Bagan.

31 Oct, Sat 5:00PM

When urban development desecrates a sacred tree, a foreman silences the inexplicable afflictions that have taken hold of a migrant worker, only to dig up histories that refuse to be buried.

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

An omniscient voice narrates the dissolution of a relationship against a montage of faceless malaise set in a beach resort.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

Caught between her separated parents in 1990s Singapore, a curious seven-year-old is left to carry big emotions she has no language for. How much children see, and how little they can do, slowly comes into focus.

30 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

Enveloped in care and tenderness, the conversations between a Paris nursing home director and a dying Japanese playwright become a space for gradual transformation.

23 Oct, Fri 2:00PM

25 Oct, Sun 7:15PM

A 1996 expedition to the Amazon rainforest to make contact with the Korubo people yields huge professional success for journalist Erling Söderström. He meets the tribe again three decades later, only to be confronted by the impact of his ignorance.

24 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

A fatal car crash links three strangers’ lives: a young man entering the world of dogfighting, a supermodel whose life is derailed after the accident, and an ex-guerrilla trying to reconcile with his past.

24 Oct, Sat 10:30AM

1 Nov, Sun 7:30PM

Three interlinked stories about societal expectations: a father preparing his young son for conscription, two soldiers sharing intimate moments in a forest, and the filmmaker’s parents speaking about his childhood.

31 Oct, Sat 5:00PM

With humour and heart, a queer filmmaker turns the camera on his family, revealing how love, identity and belonging are reshaped in contemporary Vietnam.

22 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

25 Oct, Sun 4:15PM

Beaten by bullies in the schoolyard, a young man finds refuge in an abandoned house and in his lover’s promise of escape.

28 Oct, Wed 9:15PM

A young forest cat embarks on a courageous journey to find her mother, joined by new friends also searching for lost family.

25 Oct, Sun 10:30AM

1 Nov, Sun 4:30PM

Taken in by a tribe of lost adolescents, a runaway girl finds a new existence amid freedom and despair. This explosive feature pulls no aesthetic punches, serving up the smouldering, sparkling ruins of youthful abandon in a mixed-media feast.

28 Oct, Wed 5:45PM

29 Oct, Thu 4:00PM

A colourful cast of working-class Hong Kongers resists eviction from their bedspace apartments in this humanistic reflection of pre-1997 Hong Kong.

22 Oct, Thu 5:30PM

An overworked Singaporean bureaucrat sent to fix the office printer finds the errand spiralling into a surreal odyssey across the island.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

A filmmaker meets with his friends who were imprisoned after the 2019–20 protests in Hong Kong to talk about their fragmented memories from those years. The audiovisual materials and devices they examine suggest the challenges of finding truth and resolution through documentation.

1 Nov, Sun 1:30PM

A puppeteer’s hand resurrects the missing and lost bodies of history through four stories in this lecture performance.

24 Oct, Sat 4:00PM

25 Oct, Sun 4:30PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM

Pirati, from the ancient third-gender Kinnar community in Nepal, is torn between searching for her missing daughter and the city life she longs for with her lover.

28 Oct, Wed 6:00PM

30 Oct, Fri 5:45PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 4:00PM

1 Nov, Sun 9:15PM

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.

1 Nov, Sun 2:00PM

After a quick taste of freedom, a young nurse arrives home and gets blamed for her grandmother’s death.

28 Oct, Wed 9:15PM

In this atmospheric magical realist drama, a Javanese woman is released after 20 years in prison and returns to her hometown. Her unwanted presence forces her to face the four seasons of her past and confront the village’s covert powers and injustice.

26 Oct, Mon 6:30PM

27 Oct, Tue 6:00PM

While making a documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict, an Iranian filmmaker finds himself in a warzone when Israel and the US attack Iran in early 2026. This hybrid film connects displacement, loss and mortality that span decades across borders.

1 Nov, Sun 1:30PM

1970s, Japan. Former disco dancer Fujiko finds her groove as a single mother after reclaiming her baby from her in-laws. Fusing an irreverent rock ’n’ roll spirit with comedy, the drama celebrates independence in a patriarchal society.

25 Oct, Sun 2:00PM

Forcibly separated from her premature twins in a hospital at the start of the Gaza war, a mother juggles between raising four small children, attempting to reunite with her babies, and survival in the midst of a brutal siege.

26 Oct, Mon 9:15PM

Two videographers, one from Java and the other from Papua, make a film together about Papua. They reflect upon the beautiful images of the island and discuss its ironic reality under the Javanese people.

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

Two women, one Thai and the other Burmese, are mutually bound to a crippling fate. An abandoned house deep within a lush mangrove forest offers them a glimpse of solace.

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

Hanabi depicts the people, flora and fauna, and natural and urban landscapes affected by the invisible dangers of radioactivity. Intricate imagery, sound design, narration and text form a polyphonic narrative about the relationship between civilisation, change and catastrophe.

1 Nov, Sun 11:00AM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM

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.

1 Nov, Sun 2:00PM

Film grain, spectral beams and low-frequency murmurs: two artists converse in light and sound, channelling the sublime.

24 Oct, Sat 9:00PM

25 Oct, Sun 7:00PM

Glitchy fragments shot by an obsolete digital camera overlay archival films about rural development in Thailand during the Cold War, presenting competing perspectives about national stability and regional security.

1 Nov, Sun 1:30PM

In this campus satire set in 1970s Delhi, a ragtag group of architecture students express their restless idealism against a system that rewards conformity and punishes dissent.

25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM

A mysterious helicopter crash buried deep in the mountains brings together a journalist and a soldier to make sense of a fragmented, garbled history.

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

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.

29 Oct, Thu 4:00PM

31 Oct, Sat 4:30PM

New kid on the block Julián spends the summer with his grandmother and discovers the magic of the ocean when he decides to dress up for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.

25 Oct, Sun 4:30PM

1 Nov, Sun 10:30AM

Amid killings in the Negros Island countryside, residents develop deadly antibodies that render their secretions fatal to outsiders, while a woman in the city of Bacolod experiences an extreme rise in body temperature.

28 Oct, Wed 9:15PM

When the latest chapter of her favourite manga leaves Angel feeling hot and heavy, she dips into her imagination in search of sweet relief.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

Across epochs—Republican Spain in 1932, the Civil War in 1937 and contemporary Madrid in 2017—three men navigate historical turmoil and repression, connected by love, loss and literature, in this sweeping work of queer cinema.

25 Oct, Sun 10:30AM

1 Nov, Sun 10:30AM

Set during the British Raj, the people of a small, drought-stricken village in Central India wager on a game of cricket against their ruthless colonial rulers in order to avoid paying high taxes.

23 Oct, Fri 6:00PM

Weaving glassblowing, nature walks, and a mock guide to monument design, Local Sensations is a dark satire on Thai society’s compulsion to sanctify everything it fears to question.

30 Oct, Fri 9:15PM

Fujino draws to be seen, while Kyomoto draws to hide. Together they make manga, and discover what art can and cannot hold.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

Pol moves from the countryside to Manila in hopes of earning more money in the flesh industry. Amid the city’s chaos, he learns about the harsh yet alluring male prostitution business.

31 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

Alone and isolated in a remote region of Indonesia during the early 1960s, a female Permesta fighter performs military drills and prepares for a Minahasan ancestral ritual.

31 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

The lives of childhood neighbours—a promising boxer, a young orphan and four brothers—intersect, implode and diverge across a decade of war in this stirring documentary of the battle in Mariinka, a destroyed city in eastern Ukraine.

25 Oct, Sun 6:45PM

In this exuberant spin on the road movie, a rural mother-daughter pair become unlikely salespeople as they navigate inequalities and faith.

22 Oct, Thu 9:00PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 10:15AM

31 Oct, Sat 7:15PM

Shui Mei leaves her fishing village for the city, attracted by the seemingly glamorous life of a prostitute. Across three decades, from the raucous heyday of bars serving foreign soldiers to their quiet wane, she defiantly forges her own path.

27 Oct, Tue 8:30PM

30 Oct, Fri 4:00PM

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.

28 Oct, Wed 4:15PM

29 Oct, Thu 8:45PM

Between dream and remembrance, two drifters move through a decaying world in search of a vision that may never have existed, where only the quiet ache of forgetting remains.

28 Oct, Wed 9:15PM

In Kabul on the eve of the Taliban’s return, a tenacious camerawoman’s career, relationships, family and freedom are thrown into uncertainty. She must decide what is worth holding on to and what she has to leave behind.

29 Oct, Thu 9:15PM

31 Oct, Sat 2:15PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 9:30PM

26 Oct, Mon 4:30PM

Two friends recall their childhoods in Singapore, revisit their earlier films and perform a dance for which no recording remains. Their musings and archives are woven together in a meditation on how memories are not recovered, but composed anew.

26 Oct, Mon 6:15PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

A curious old man weaves his way through a labyrinthine housing estate. Through a dizzying exploration of neighbourly happenings in a public housing complex near Prague, the film forms an allegory for the complex dynamics of community-building.

31 Oct, Sat 11:00AM

A modest father in 1980s New York and his unremarkable family find their lives upturned by a get-rich scheme gone wrong. This textured crime thriller is anchored in performances that underscore the grandness, despair and humanity of wanting more.

24 Oct, Sat 9:00PM

30 Oct, Fri 1:30PM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 9:00PM

31 Oct, Sat 1:15PM

Amid a rise in far-right extremism and racially motivated attacks, Seyo Kim, a young German-Korean state prosecutor, impartially executes the law. But when a masked individual attempts to set her on fire, her engagement with the law becomes personal.

1 Nov, Sun 7:00PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

Through five generations of personal stories, this documentary reveals how memories of resistance survive beyond political upheavals. A poetic portrait of Iran’s ongoing struggle, it explores storytelling and everyday acts of defiance as quiet forms of revolution.

23 Oct, Fri 4:00PM

25 Oct, Sun 9:15PM

After a leaked sex tape drives her to suicide, Megan returns as a vengeful ghost haunting the men who wronged her.

30 Oct, Fri 9:15PM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 9:15PM

28 Oct, Wed 2:00PM

As summertime ends, a couple, their young child and an acquaintance visit the beach, but are beset by strong winds and a slowly encroaching calamity. This strange film uses colour, mise-en-scène and sound design to suggest another way of experiencing the emptiness and dread of time.

23 Oct, Fri 9:00PM

What begins as rehearsal becomes revelation when two young women discover that performance can reveal truths the script never intended.

31 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

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.

26 Oct, Mon 6:30PM

On the day she is proposed to, a woman recounts her past in a scam compound. The vulnerability of her story blurs the line between memory, truth and reality.

31 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

To get to work, a man sprints through a city where mundane panic and disaster collapse into one frozen moment.

28 Oct, Wed 9:15PM

Standing at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, a filmmaker sardonically imagines the conversations of the crowd as if they were Singaporean.

23 Oct, Fri 6:30PM

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.

24 Oct, Sat 1:30PM

Two sisters attempt to uncover the truth of their mother’s death amid possessions and hauntings in a wig factory. Indonesian director Edwin’s foray into horror highlights the systematic exploitation of workers through grotesque means.

27 Oct, Tue 8:45PM

31 Oct, Sat 9:30PM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM

While a teenage girl feels utterly trapped in ennui, the magic of Singapore’s natural world begins to rumble, threatening to break the levee.

24 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

Young swimmer Bulet returns to her hometown to attend a cousin’s wedding. Overwhelmed by grief and heartbreak, she tries to keep her head above water.

31 Oct, Sat 5:00PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 9:15PM

1 Nov, Sun 7:00PM

The road to a queer woman’s sexual awakening is paved with geysers of blood and radical vulnerability, powered by fantasy and imagination. Guilty pleasures have never felt more seen in this healing, tonally surprising take on the slasher genre.

26 Oct, Mon 4:00PM

31 Oct, Sat 9:00PM

Undeterred by the intimidation of state agents, an intrepid detective, reporter and news editor join forces to uncover the truth about a shooting in this gripping procedural thriller.

21 Oct, Wed 8:30PM

22 Oct, Thu 2:00PM

In 2036, cows are nearly extinct. Phop owns Southeast Asia’s last bull, but it is getting old. He employs Jon, the only person who can extract semen from it, and finds himself drawn to Jon’s hands.

30 Oct, Fri 9:15PM

Along the Thai-Myanmar border, a mysterious illness marks Karen bodies with burns and an activist is killed for defending his village’s land, all while a toxic haze spreads across Western Thailand.

27 Oct, Tue 9:00PM

29 Oct, Thu 9:00PM

A video game descends into a pixel dungeon where demons demand a sacrifice for your data.

23 Oct, Fri 7:15PM

24 Oct, Sat 6:30PM

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.

31 Oct, Sat 7:00PM

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.

23 Oct, Fri 8:45PM

Claire announces at her 250th birthday party her decision to die, which is challenged by family and friends. As her final day approaches, she turns her death into an artist’s statement.

1 Nov, Sun 9:15PM

Returning home after years abroad, a man finds that the locals are now consumed by a desire to leave. As a feverish contagion of unnamed dread spreads among them, young people mysteriously vanish.

31 Oct, Sat 5:00PM

In this science-fiction, fantasy, romance and wuxia mashup, the fairy maiden Chang’e embarks on a journey to the moon to find her missing lover and is joined by a bandit from earth.

24 Oct, Sat 3:30PM

Toll operators and lovers Santosh and Rajji spend their days waiting and working in decrepit booths. A tragic accident upturns their quiet lives in this magical realist love story of grief and acceptance.

27 Oct, Tue 6:00PM

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

Misadventures ensue as a protective single father and his three daughters—the youngest of whom is invisible—venture from their secluded life on a quiet island to Tokyo to meet the girls’ estranged grandmother, a famous actress who has taken ill.

31 Oct, Sat 4:30PM

When a freak accident threatens Anna’s image of a perfect family, the matriarch makes a Faustian deal that leads to a spiral of annihilation in this morality tale hinged on bourgeois anxieties.

30 Oct, Fri 9:00PM

A reclusive Paris photographer follows a woman home from a party and wakes up the next morning inside her body, setting off an unnerving search for her identity and what he has become.

28 Oct, Wed 8:45PM

1 Nov, Sun 4:30PM

Joaquin has been raised by his monster-hunting father to kill. But when he hears the eerily humanlike cries of a captured creature, Joaquin begins to question where the true horror lies.

29 Oct, Thu 6:00PM

Plagued by a persistent rattling noise inside his head, a soon-to-be bridegroom desperately searches for its source and discovers an irrepressible truth.

30 Oct, Fri 9:15PM

Weary railway workers resist colonial labour through intentional slowness and refusal. As they disrupt a system built on constant movement, idleness becomes a subtle act of sabotage.

31 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

Jacques wakes Bruno up at daybreak to deliver a life-changing revelation: nothing is real—they are living in a simulation and he has the evidence to prove it. Struck by existential vertigo, Bruno soon reaps the benefits of this discovery.

26 Oct, Mon 9:30PM

An American livestreamer brings a pair of vintage denims to Tokyo to sell, but the yakuza gets involved and all goes berserk in this madcap romp that reflects our zeitgeist’s screen obsession and digital voyeurism.

1 Nov, Sun 5:00PM

Two boys in a small Japanese town become each other’s closest friend and foil. As their lives fork in adulthood, each remembers something the other never saw, carrying scars from their life experiences.

28 Oct, Wed 9:00PM

30 Oct, Fri 4:00PM

Loneliness draws a young man to a derelict cinema that was once a haunt for cruising men. Seeking release, he finds the cinema awakening, watching and luring him with an insisting gaze.

31 Oct, Sat 2:00PM

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.

25 Oct, Sun 1:30PM

Fluid reflections in water and the haunting sound of wind become metaphors for loss, mourning and the passage of time in this personal work featuring three generations of a family.

23 Oct, Fri 9:00PM

A game designer searches for his missing roommate through chat logs, avatars and secondhand memory, only to discover that digital remains reveal little of another person.

28 Oct, Wed 2:30PM

30 Oct, Fri 9:00PM