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2024 Golden Horse Winner & Berlinale Crystal Bear Nominee

Considered a rebel veteran of Chinese independent filmmaking - three time Silver Bear (Berlinale) winner - Director, Wang Xiaoshuai’s latest inventive and poignant family drama, delves into the complexities of rural life and intergenerational bonds. A meditation on loss, displacement, and the cost of progress.

-Date: 27 July-

Sunday, 27 July 1.30pm Screening will be accompanied with a post-screening virtual Q&A with Director Shiori Ito, Moderated by Kirsten Han.

BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito's courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

TW: This film has themes on sexual assault.

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54 wins & 70 Nominations including Winner for Best Animated Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards.

*This film is exempted from classification and is suitable for all ages.

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The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

11-year-old Karin is abandoned by her father at her grandfather’s house, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather asks Anzu, his jovial, helpful, although rather capricious, ghost-cat to look after her. The clash of their strong characters causes sparks, at least at the beginning.

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With bold visuals and a rebellious soundtrack, the film captures the shift from youthful apathy to political awakening. In Neo Sora’s first fictional coming-of-age film, best friends Yuta and Kou get swept up in student protests against an oppressive system.

-Opens: 10 July-

RATED: R21

Winner for Best Film (Golden Berlin Bear), FIPRESCI Prize & Guild Film Prize at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival.

A seventeen-year-old girl experiences a sexual awakening when she falls head over heels in love with her female teacher. She writes this down in her diary, and writes so well, vividly and recognizably that both mother and grandmother think the book should be published. Without taking into account that the girl has only written it to keep the crush alive for herself.

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TRUTH (OR DARE): A writing workshop in response to DREAMS (SEX LOVE)

Registration for the workshop is provided on the film's webpage.

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Unprecedented and audacious, HOLLYWOODGATE is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash'at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Risking his life in the war-torn nation, Nash'at is on the ground with the Taliban when they enter an American base loaded with a portion of the roughly $7 billion worth of U.S. armaments left behind.

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11 wins & 11 nominations including 2024 Venice FIlm Festival Winner - Best Director (authors under 40 award)

Usually, when people say a film was the first to do something, they're just exaggerating. But with MISTRESS DISPELLER, Elizabeth Lo really has done something totally unprecedented. It's safe to say no other film has managed to capture this kind of intimacy, closely following a real-life couple (and the mistress) as they deal with their extramarital affair in a particularly unusual fashion.

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Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.

Directed By Hiroshi Okuyama, his sophomore feature is reminiscent of Hirokazu Kore-eda's nuanced sensibilities.

Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn't too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for whom he starts to develop a genuine fascination. Coach and former champion Arakawa, spots potential in Takuya, and decides to mentor him to form a duo with Sakura for an upcoming competition.

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Cannes Film Festival 2023 Winner - Best Actor

96th Academy Awards Nominee - Best International Feature Film

Through Perfect Days, Wim Wenders showcases his love for Japan and most importantly Director Ozu... Starring the highly versatile Koji Yakusho as Hirayama, accompanied by the cadence of observing the gentleness and meaningfulness in the quotidian in everyday.

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One man, endless meals, zero small talk. The Solitary Gourmet is here to prove that eating alone isn’t lonely—it’s a delicious art form. From sizzling street food to perfect noodle slurps, every bite is a main character moment. Who else loves a good solo food adventure?

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2024 Cannes Film Festival winner for Director's Fortnight Audience Award.

Wes Anderson meets Matthew Rankin in this Canadian absurdist comedy-drama - blending 1980s Iranian cinema with a surreal triptych of intersecting stories set in a mysterious interzone somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran