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A filmmaker investigates surveillance footage of workers leaving Chinese factories from a ‘cinematic point of view’, alongside evolving depiction of workers in Euro-American and Chinese cinema spanning a century.

A tough but tortured hero has his heart in the right place but on the wrong side of his body in this genre-bending revenge story.

After his wife’s sudden passing, an old man grapples with strained family ties, regrets and memories evoked by the springtime rain.

In this gripping drama, tragedy strikes when two brothers have their morals tested upon discovering their children’s dreadful secret.

This realist drama immortalises those who are about to be left behind as Singapore rushes towards economic growth in the late 1970s.

In eastern Anatolia, an insecure teacher longing to escape its extreme climate and politics is drawn into an absorbing web of accusations, desire and shame.

A person brushes the teeth of a dog and turns into a bus.

A painfully self-serious young writer obsesses over work while life slips him by in this German twist on the summer film.

An ethereal ghost story of love and loss centred on a gay man’s struggle to heal from a childhood tragedy.

After 11 years, Nica returns to her mother’s abandoned home to retrieve an item for her mother’s coffin. The neglected home greets her in an unsettling yet strangely liberating manner.

A defining zeitgeist of artists working on the brink of significant change in 1990s China.

A woman lugs a hefty bag around with her, tending carefully to its contents. But she must let it go at some point.

A married couple runs a mobile carnival, joyfully entertaining others’ kids. Amid family meddling, doubts and a revelatory conflict, the reason for their childlessness emerges.

Following the unexpected demise of a stranger while at work, a repair technician spirals into facing the reality of his own mortality.

Three wayward youths move in with a retired opera singer who is grappling with her own fresh grief.

In this delirious fantasia of after-dark Tehran, a drug dealer rendezvouses through the underworld to mend troubled souls.

While Mila struggles with being unpaid at work, a love interest becomes a source of comfort through his constant phone calls, but a promise of hope may also lead to tragedy.

A delivery rider in labyrinthine Seoul contends with the sudden appearance of her alter ego amid the gamified realities of gig work.

During Songkran, the director and his family reunite at Grandma’s house where they share heartfelt conversations about their late Grandpa. One night, an enigmatic event unfolds during their sleep.

Uncovering her boyfriend and best friend’s affair, a plastic surgeon enters a deranged state pursuing revenge and murder.

A school reunion recalls repressed desires and entangled memories in an intoxicating blend of reality and the unconscious.

This intimate rendering of a refugee’s journey to reclaim a life from the shadows of survivor’s guilt unfolds with delicate grace.

Set in a public park in Seoul, this hypnotising film pulls audiences into the rotating eye of the artist’s camera.

Lav Diaz continues his signature darkness, despair and desolation in his latest exploring the suffering of the human mind in a dictatorship.

Nestled away from the bustle of urban Tokyo, an ecological dreamland teeters on the brink of tourism encroachment in this haunting eco-thriller.

The Finnish deadpan master returns with a deft comedy of two lonely souls who might make first love work between them.

Delving into figures like the pseudohistorical Kalantiaw and President Bongbong Marcos, this documentary is a deep exploration of the post-truth era.

A nurse helps Vicheka make sense of his dreams after he returns to a transformed Sihanoukville to memorialise his father in this restrained film about the human cost of Chinese investment in Cambodia.

Amid social upheaval, two women’s disparate lives become unexpectedly entangled in tragedy, friendship and lies in this moving tale.

In her sleepless nights, Gia Gia watches online videos and finds out why she is afraid to fall asleep.

After a chance encounter, two women find themselves in the underbelly of Seoul in this dark feminist tale of survival.

A tale of fleeting encounters aided by hot soup and lush mosses.

In this tense courtroom drama, a criminal defence lawyer juggles difficult moral choices in her personal and professional life.

This compact debut of a family in political limbo navigates notions of home and identity that slip past bureaucracy and borders.

In a tale of love, repression and sisterhood, a filmmaker unearths her family’s history and a shared name, discovering her own sense of self.

Forced disappearances, secrets, and many, many cameras add up in this political thriller that gets the better of our truth-starved habits.

An absorbing treatise into spirituality and the discomfort of deciphering the divine makes its way into the canon of slow cinema.

Departing the life she once knew, a woman journeys into priesthood in this classic work of Manipuri cinema.

An architect allies himself with a bunch of grave robbers while searching for his late lover in this charming fantasy.

Grief and gain are intimate doubles in this family mystery that leads a Singaporean-Japanese girl to her mother’s hometown.

Dissident Chinese composer Wang Xilin bares his body and soul as he relates experiences of persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

A social satire about a jobless man in Senegal who receives an unexpected windfall that invites more trouble than he can manage.

Earth returns home to join his sister Ink’s mangosteen processing factory in this playful film that experiments with the possibilities of narrative.

This sharp-tongued drama follows a long day in the life of an unmarried Muslim woman with a modest but inconvenient wish.

Indonesia’s active volcano Merapi is place, protagonist and centre of the universe all at once in this haunting eco-drama.

In this eerily haunting film, a man encounters his past in an abandoned hotel carrying scars of the Cold War.

In dreamy black and white, Southeast Asian histories are evoked and overturned to tell the mysterious tale of Mountain Land: an unconquerable island shaped like a human body.

A young man experiences a series of unlikely encounters with uncanny characters in a tale of innocence unburdened by knowledge.

Traversing Singapore and Japan, a young woman reconnects with herself in this subdued uncovering of a wandering soul.

The former industrial town of Norberg, once the restive heart of the miners’ labour movement in the 1890s, becomes a post-industrial rave paradise more than a century later.

A profound rumination on the burden of history and the need for roots.

Lingering and recurring threads unravel across vignettes of Ocean’s childhood, tangled in time and memory, as she lies motionless on a beach shore.

Guided by the Minahasa’s influence, this speculative fiction of mystical belief interlaces care and ancestral dialogues, embracing a healing renewal across numinous, material and technological realms.

An unlikely homecoming foretells magical events that soon bind the fate of alleged sorcerers.

Echoing the story of Vessantara Jātaka, the film depicts a man’s post-widowhood transformation and Myanmar’s complex past through a dysfunctional family.

A sensitive and profound meditation on the female body, as seen through varied experiences at a French gynaecology ward.

Exploring patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, this essay film reveals the entanglements of economic, political and engineering forces that manifest in exploitative labour conditions today.

A clandestine young woman embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery in Yorgos Lanthimos’s bold and hypnotic examination of human nature.

Strangers come and go while ghosts linger in an abandoned hospital amid floods of memories and data.

In an exploitative game show audition, mothers’ fortitude and tenacity are tested, questioning and challenging their devotion to the maternal role.

A filmmaker attempts to piece together memories of her mother after the discovery of diaries she left behind 16 years ago.

Four astonishing films by Surrealist artist Man Ray are restored in 4K with an original experimental soundtrack by director Jim Jarmusch’s band SQÜRL.

Excavating the archive with reflexive inquiry, this provocative documentary confronts the lasting racist and sexist legacies of colonialism.

A stressed-out middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but soon becomes addicted to solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.

A meet-cute between a dancer and a sign- language interpreter blossoms into a tender bond that challenges conventional expectations of relationships.

The historical trauma of Malaysia’s ‘513’ incident permeates the present in a series of haunting tableaux that compose this operatic drama.

Exhumed archives, sounds, footage and artefacts culminate in a visceral collage that mirrors the ongoing excavation of Bukit Brown Cemetery.

After a baby is kidnapped at a rural train station, two brothers become embroiled in the investigation.

Two young migrant workers in love find themselves in a quandary with life-altering repercussions in this poignant drama.

A poet’s return to his decrepit hometown turns into a carnival of absurdity with equal parts filth, irreverence and melancholy.

Five filmmakers from Myanmar envision the country’s future a decade from now, contemplating justice and restoration in this omnibus project.

In Zen-like imagery, an adult contemplates accidentally ending an ant’s life during childhood. The parable’s murmured soliloquies and glitches echo cosmic repentance and spirituality.

While digitising an unknown creature’s remains, a palaeontologist grieves for a cherished loved one.

Tired of corporate drudgery, a bank clerk robs his workplace and implicates his colleague, setting off a revelatory journey to discover freedom.

A raw, comedic portrait of a woman navigating sexual and family relationships in her seemingly mundane life as a low-level corporate employee.

Shot with a 360° panoramic camera but edited into 2D, this film follows three groups of friends as they walk and talk in Peru, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

Using figurines in a handmade set that recreates her neighbourhood, a Moroccan director explores her family’s and country’s secrets.

In Singapore, politics is seen as a cautious dance. However, in this lively film, the city becomes a vibrant street parade filled with pop culture, karaoke and colour.

The suffering from past emotional turmoil becomes entwined with a man’s current physical agony. Superstitions lead him to ruminate on an unborn child and the profound journey of the soul through existence.

Juggling their roles as a companion-for-hire and caregiver, Baby begins to feel trapped and stagnant as their peers start to disappear and the city undergoes significant development.

A group of friends pursue their artistic ambitions in this coming-of-age story steeped in the innocence and dreaminess of xinyao.

After an event about a seminal 1989 Chinese exhibition, an artist and a censor discuss the purpose of art in an authoritarian society.

Nostalgia, longing and absence are gently brought to the fore in this endearing dramedy of change and continuities.

Myth, dreams and political allegory coalesce in this visionary and rare classic from pre-revolutionary Iran.

The sole carer for her family, a young woman’s sunny optimism wavers on the chaotic day of her little brother’s school play.

In this Kafkaesque reality, a soon-to-be-evicted tenant employs a bizarre subletting scheme that may be his solution.

After the death of their father, a trio of siblings clash over the deceased’s unusual outfit of choice.

This is an unbridled animal that snarls, growls and meows as it tells the coming-of-age tale of an adolescent girl who learns to own her differences. Chilling and hilarious by turns, expect bodily fluids, toilet shenanigans, hysteria and TikTok dances.

In this shapeshifting tale, a tenuous father−son relationship paves the way for a haunting coming-of-age journey with a metaphysical twist.

A tender, lived-in portrait of a family preparing for grief and loss over the course of a day, as seen through a young girl’s eyes.

Composed of collages created with paper, paint and photographs, this trailer for a never-to-be-made feature is Godard’s final film.

This psychological horror and surrealist work reveals the week leading up to the murder of a hedonistic high school student.

A warm, elegiac documentary depicting the rigour and creativity of a film editor’s craft, and the presence of cinema in her life.

A religious devotee, trapped in an enforced gender identity, plots an escape from his oppressive village in this delicately layered examination of gender fluidity.

Across contemporary Singapore, walk walk unveils a myriad of women who create space, literally and figuratively, for themselves and others as they walk.

Beatrix tries to break from her troubled history and express her creative selfhood in this experimental adaptation of an Eve Sedgwick poem.

An unnamed town in communist-era Hungary comes undone in the presence of a mysterious travelling circus in this slow-cinema masterpiece.

Two middle-aged fathers bond over their love for their daughters in this affecting drama about friendship in our golden years.

A Muslim scholar appears on a talk show to promote his new book on the irrelevance of motherhood, strongly opposing tradition. A caller phones in, and a disruption ensues.

An expansive portrayal of youths with differing ambitions and life stories who both blossom and crumble in the sewing room.