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4 wins & 7 nominations including 2023 Tokyo Film Festival Winner - Best Artistic Contribution Award.

Inspired by a shocking real event – an armed heist by workers at a factory in northeastern China in the mid-90s. As seismic cultural and economic changes sweep the country, the working class struggle with the rapid changes, and decide to take matters into their own hands. A slick crime drama and first impressive directorial debut by Director Gao Peng.

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28 wins & 61 nominations including 2024 Cannes Grand Prix Winner.

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In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Ticket discount: Migrant Workers (including Foreign Domestic Workers) can enjoy $4 off weekend ticket prices for weekend screenings (Fri-Sun).

4 wins & 3 nominations including Winner of 2024 Singapore International Film Festival Audience Choice Award.

In January 2020, director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted a decade earlier. With the shoot almost complete, rumors regarding an illness begin to circulate. Some cast and crew manage to leave before the hotel is put on lockdown. Everyone remaining is confined to their rooms, and the director must decide whether to halt filming once more as Wuhan is shut down in the early days of a terrifying pandemic.

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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and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.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.

-Dates: 18, 26, 31 Jan-

9 wins & 2 nominations including Best Actor, 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.

From the mind of one of the world’s top horror directors, comes the spine-chilling film that kickstarted Japan’s glorious horror media explosion in the late ‘90s. A wave of bizarre, gruesome murders sweeps through Tokyo, all of them connected only by an ‘X’ carved into the victims’ necks and the fact that none of the murderers can remember why they committed the crimes.

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata), Starring Kôji Yakusho (Perfect Days)

*Rated: R21

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‘Su-yeon’ (Cho Yeo-jeong), a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor ‘Sung-jin’ (Song Seung-heon), disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devasted over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to ‘Mi-ju’ (Park Ji-hyun), a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon’s house.

Meanwhile, Su-yeon, who is thought to have gone missing, remains trapped in a secret room inside her house, and watches the naked truth unravel before her.

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4 wins & 13 nominations including 2024 Golden Horse Film Festival Winner - Best New Director, 2024 Cannes Film Festival Winner - Golden Camera & 2024 Singapore International Film Festival Winner - Best Asian Feature Film

*Ticketed at $18, 50% of the ticket proceeds go to TWC2.

Join us for a special screening of Singapore International’s Film Festival Beast Asian Feature Winner, MONGREL on Sunday, 26th January 2025. 50% of the ticket proceeds will be donated to Transient Workers Count 2, a non-profit organization in Singapore dedicated to advocating for the fair treatment of migrant workers.

Oom, an undocumented Thai migrant in the mountains of Taiwan, works as a caregiver for the elderly and disabled. He contends with distrustful employers, a manipulative boss who coerces him into risky odd jobs, and fellow workers who question his loyalties despite his efforts to look out for them.

-Dates: 12, 25 Jan, 1 Feb-

Rated: R21

*TW: This film contains strong violence and scenes of sexual assault.

Forget a revenge dress, try a revenge film! A top-secret agent swears revenge on the bloodthirsty serial killer who slaughtered his fiancée. Unflinching and depraved, I Saw the Devil is a pulverising, operatic thriller propelled forward by fiery rage and top-notch filmmaking.

Directed by Kim Jee-Woon (The Good the Bad the Weird)
Starring Choi Min-Suk (Old Boy, Lady Vengence), Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game, A Bittersweet Life)

Rated: R21

No one believes roommates Jae-hee and Heung-soo are just friends, but they’re used to being misunderstood. Kim Go-eun and Steve Sanghyun Noh star in this romance exploring how young adults live and love in the big city of Seoul.

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

96th Academy Awards Nominee - Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny, and the choices that make a life.

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

In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bonds of marriage—and break up affairs— by any means necessary. Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

The Projector 10th Anniversary Screening

(Screening + Post Show Conversation with Director Kirsten Tan & Multidisciplinary Artist, weish)

Date: Sat 1 Feb, 4:30pm at Golden Mile Tower

*Sundance Film Festival Winner for Screenwriting (World Cinema)

*Rotterdam International Film Festival Winner (Big Screen Award)

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together – only to discover the truth about himself.

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2 wins & 11 nominations including 2024 Golden Horse Film Festival Winner - Best Original Film Score.

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realises someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.