Limited Screening

A New Old Play (椒麻堂会)NC16

Dates: 13, 18, 19, 27 Apr

In “A New Old Play,” Chinese director Qiu Jiongjiong daringly and imaginatively dramatizes twentieth-century Chinese political history through the epoch-spanning story of a small theatre company. Based loosely on the life of Qiu's grandfather - the film blends surreal fantasy with historical drama - painting a poignant, darkly comic portrait of art, memory, and survival, where tradition collides with the relentless march of time.

Björk: CornucopiaTBA

-Date: 7 May-

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years.

Blue Velvet Screening + Post Show TalkM18

-Waking Up Dreaming: David Lynch Remembered-

-Date: 19 Apr-

*Screening + Post Show Talk

18 wins & 18 nominations including 1987 Oscar nominee for Best Director.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Screening will conclude with a post screening talk with writer and lecturer Ben Slater and filmmaker Quark Henares.

Blue VelvetM18

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Date: 5 Apr-

18 wins & 18 nominations including 1987 Oscar nominee for Best Director.

Butterflies (Perhoset)TBA

-Date: 10 May-

The 1hr 43mins duration is inclusive of the short film Covert, which precedes the feature film.

In the midst of Finland's chaotic Tango festival, Siiri, a cynic of epic proportions, clashes with her relentlessly optimistic father, Petri. As Siiri grapples with maintaining her politician boss's sanity amidst marital strife, and Petri juggles his own facade of stability, they both confront the lies they've told themselves in a dance of self-discovery.

Chasing the Line (Klammer)PG13

-Date: 18 May-

Barely 22, Franz Klammer finds himself in the eye of the storm at the men’s downhill competition at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. The charismatic newcomer who cemented his status at the 1972 Olympics in Innsbruck has won virtually every race but pressure from the media, the public and the hopes of an entire nation are mounting.

ClosePG13

-Date: 24 May -

TW: Self Harm

Cannes 2022 Grand Prix Winner

Oscar 2023 Nominee: Best International Feature Film

Thirteen year olds Leo and Remi have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. When tragedy strikes, one is forced to confront why he distanced himself from his closest friend.

Family Matter (Sei Fratelli)M18

Date: 26 Apr

It is rightly said, the strongest bonds are also the most fragile and they get tested in this gripping drama. Family tensions of six siblings come to the fore when the father passes away. The siblings find themselves together for the first time in their father’s house in Bordeaux, living the illusion of being one strong and united family. But with dramatic back stories conflicts and tensions rapidly unravel.

I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)NC16

-Dates: 6, 10, 18 Apr-

97% Tomatometer
Winner for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

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A haunting journey of resilience and identity, I'm Still Here follows a young woman’s desperate search for her missing brother amid the chaos of post-dictatorship Brazil. As she navigates a fractured society still scarred by violence and silence, her quest becomes a powerful testament to memory, survival, and the unbreakable bonds of family. Director Walter Salles crafts a gripping, emotionally raw portrait of loss and defiance in the face of erasure.

It's Not My Film (To nie mój film)NC16

-Date: 11 Apr-

Wanda and Janek, stuck in a long-term relationship crisis, embark on a life-changing winter journey to save their love.

KNEECAPR21

-Date: 12 Apr-

There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.

Kulej. All that glitters isn't gold (Kulej. Dwie strony medalu)M18

-Date: 5 Apr-

The journey of Olympic champion Jerzy Kulej and his wife Helena, balancing success in boxing with a challenging marriage.

M (Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder)PG

-Dates: 12, 20, 26 Apr-

Who is the murderer?

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. A harrowing masterwork M, director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, 1927) merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

Special $6 ticket price

Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Singapore

MinghunTBA

Date: 16 May

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The 1h 38mins duration is inclusive of the Short Film: Hierarchy, which precedes the feature film.

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Minghun is a poignant story about hope, love and the search for the meaning of life and what comes after it. It tells us about the most important emotions and the existential limits of the human experience. It is astory about the meeting of cultures and about love, which can show up in unexpected ways. Truly, the end can be a beginning.

Mulholland DriveR21

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 13 Apr-

Rated: R21

50 wins & 61 nominations including 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Director

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Savvusanna sõsarad)M18

-Date: 3 May-

17 wins & 30 nominations including Winner of Directing Award, World Cinema - Documentary at 2023 Sundance.

In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

Tasty (Gardutė)PG

DATE: 25 Apr

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The 1hr 51 mins duration is inclusive of the short film Flutter, which precedes the feature film.

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Best friends Ona and Saule work as chefs in a small canteen in Kaunas, Tasty. Always going out of their way to please their customers, one day Saule signs them up for a televised cooking contest by creating fake restaurant profiles. They surprisingly get in. The prize: the winner gets their own restaurant.

Turning up on the show, the unlikely pair are the clear underdogs, struggling to compete with their idol: chef Madame Brukne. Despite this, their simple yet delicious dishes see them successfully go through the first rounds supported by adoring fans. All is going well till Ona falls for the charismatic French judge Emanuel.

That They May Face the Rising SunPG13

-Date: 9 May-

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The 1hr 53mins duration is inclusive of the the short film, Kamu Happy Kan, Nak? which precedes the screening of the feature film.

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Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

The Girl With the Needle (Pigen med Nålen)M18

-Date: 24 May-

Closing Film of European Film Festival 2025

Karoline a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post-World War I Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar a charismatic woman running a secret adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers find foster homes for their unwanted children. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.

UnmooredM18

Dates: 13, 19, 30 Apr

The Projector Cineleisure

The ordered life of a TV presenter threatens to unravel when she finally confronts her domineering husband about an accusation made against him. Her subsequent flight precipitates a chain of lies and paranoia in this taut psychological thriller that explores the nuance of guilt, complicity and self-deception.

Waltzing Matilda (Tancuj, Matyldo)TBA

-Date: 27 Apr-

This tells the story of a debt collector Karel, his 80-year old mother Mathilde - a former choir singer - and his teenage son Pavel. The withdrawn, emotionally torn Karel does not get along with his extroverted and bohemian mother. Pavel despises his father’s profession and cannot forget that he abandoned his family as a child.

The three come together when Mathilde develops Alzheimer’s disease, loses her apartment and Karel has to take her in. Unable to take care of his mother, he reaches out to his son to help his sick grandmother. As the illness progresses, crises and conflicts arise in this tragi-comic story that has more twists and turns than life itself.

White Courage (Biała odwaga)M18

-Date: 13 Apr-

Love, betrayal, and war as family loyalty clashes with personal desires.

Winners (Sieger Sein)PG13

-Date: 26 April-

The 2hr 3mins is inclusive of the short film Hannah which precedes the feature film screening.

Eleven-year-old Mona has fled Syria with her Kurdish family and ended up in a school in Wedding, where 90% of the students are “foreigners”. And while Mona doesn’t know much German, she speaks football fluently.

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The First 100 tickets will be sold at $10!

Without Air (Elfogy a levegő)PG13

-Date: 15 May-

Best First Feature at Warsaw International Film Festival (2023)

In a small Hungarian town, Ana Bauch (Ágnes Krasznahorkai) is a dedicated and liberal literature teacher. Beloved by her students for her unorthodox and creative approach, she assigns Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 Total Eclipse, depicting the relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, so they can better understand Rimbaud’s poetry.

When a conservative father interrupts his son Victor (Soma Sándor) and hears of the assignment, he reports Ana to the school’s principal (Tünde Skovrán). Ana is accused of misconduct and spreading homosexual propaganda. When the local media reports the brewing scandal, she faces even more scrutiny. Ana must now decide: whether to fight or to flee. Without Air is a multiple award-winning film, including