Horizon
Horizon offers a bird’s-eye view of world cinema today, bringing together diverse filmic discoveries and celebrated works from the international film festival circuit.
Featuring established filmmakers and emerging talents, these 16 films showcase compelling stories from across the globe, each expanding our horizons a little further.
Opening Film
28 Nov, Fri 9:00PM / 96 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language and Violence) / Golden Village Bugis, Hall 5
Hen
A hen seeks refuge in a crumbling Greek eatery, guarding her eggs as a human tragedy unfolds.
György Pálfi / Greece, Germany, Hungary / 2025 / 96 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language and Violence) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Feature Films
10s Across the Borders
Meet three trailblazers of the underground ballroom scenes in Southeast Asia and their communities in this candid documentary.
Chan Sze-Wei / Philippines, Singapore, Germany / 2025 / 99 min / R21 (Mature Theme) / Singapore Premiere
Becoming Human
The guardian spirit of a cinema that is about to be demolished becomes friends with a human as she faces the prospect of rebirth.
Polen Ly / Cambodia / 2025 / 99 min / PG / Singapore Premiere
Bring Him Down to a Portable Size
Selfish and a burden all his life, Riko’s brother suddenly dies. She has four days before seeing him off on his final journey.
Ryota Nakano / Japan, France, China / 2025 / 127 min / PG / Southeast Asian Premiere
Diamonds in the Sand
A lonely Japanese man grieving his mother’s death follows a Filipina caregiver to Manila, discovering life and connection amid loss.
Janus Victoria / Japan, Malaysia, Philippines / 2024 / 102 min / NC16 (Some Sexual Scenes) / Singapore Premiere
I Only Rest In The Storm
An insecure Portuguese environmental engineer with a saviour complex seeks to assimilate with locals in Guinea-Bissau.
Pedro Pinho / Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania / 2025 / 217 min / Rating To Be Advised / Singapore Premiere
Kokuho
Due to a lack of family connections to the kabuki establishment, a yakuza’s son struggles for decades to gain true recognition.
Lee Sang-il / Japan / 2025 / 175 min / M18 (Sexual Scene) / Singapore Premiere
La Grazia
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.
Paolo Sorrentino / Italy / 2025 / 133 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language) / Southeast Asian Premiere
Memory of Princess Mumbi
When Kuve visits a postwar country to make a film, he is challenged by Mumbi to work without AI and discovers life’s poetry.
Damien Hauser / Kenya, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia / 2025 / 79 min / PG13 (Brief Coarse Language) / Southeast Asian Premiere
My Father’s Shadow
Two young brothers spend a miraculous day with their preoccupied father in Lagos, 1993; around them hangs the fate of democracy.
Akinola Davies Jr / UK, Nigeria / 2025 / 94 min / PG / Singapore Premiere
Sound of Falling
The lives of four girls from different eras, each spending a summer on a German farm, intertwine and echo one another across time.
Mascha Schilinski / Germany / 2025 / 149 min / R21 (Sexual Scenes) / Singapore Premiere
The Fox King
On the cusp of adulthood, a pair of fraternal twins with a telepathic connection grow apart when they meet an alluring new teacher.
Woo Ming Jin / Malaysia, Indonesia / 2025 / 94 min / PG13 (Some Coarse Language and Sexual References) / Singapore Premiere
The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo
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.
Diego Cespedes / Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium / 2025 / 104 min / M18 (Mature Content) / Singapore Premiere
Vanilla
Eight-year-old Roberta bears witness to her family of seven spirited women dealing with the threat of having their house repossessed.
Mayra Hermosillo / Mexico / 2025 / 96 min / NC16 (Sexual Violence) / Asian Premiere
What Does that Nature Say to You
A poet dropping off his girlfriend at her mansion is drawn into a night of food, wine and words, where strangers grow closer.
Hong Sang-soo / South Korea / 2025 / 109 min / PG13 (Smoking Scenes) / Singapore Premiere