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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.

Documentary

Black Box DiariesNC16

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and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.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

AnimationDramaFantasy

Ghost Cat AnzuPG

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.

Drama

HAPPYENDPG13

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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.

DramaLGBTQ+

Happy TogetherR21

-Date: 26 July-

In Cantonese, with English subtitles

Lai and his lover Ho go on a trip to Buenos Aires from Hong Kong. Their torrid relationship lives out among lusty tango bars and the salsa music of La Boca sidewalks. But tensions grow between the two lovers, as they find themselves far from home with their lives drifting in opposite directions.

Directed by Wong Kar Wai, with cinematography by Christopher Doyle, starring Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung.

Co-presented with Singapore Art Museum, in conjunction with Heman Chong exhibition.

*Only persons aged 21 years old & above (as of screen date) can watch this film.

Documentary

Mistress DispellerPG

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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.

DocumentaryMusic

Ryuichi Sakamoto | OpusG

-Dates: 6, 12 & 22 July-

Ryuichi Sakamoto's last performance, a concert film featuring just him and his piano playing for the last time before passing away.

-Dates: 20 July and 9 August-

Filmmaker Fang Li and his crew explore exhaustive historical investigation, as far as possible to find the core of the British, American, Japanese and Chinese parties and descendants, trying to infinitely close to the truth of the World War II "Death Ship" — "Lisbon Maru", which is 30 meters under the sea off the East Polar Island in Zhoushan, China.

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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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