Singapore Movies

By examining the Frontier Danceland’s 1998 archival dance piece under the lens of 2023, residency filmmaker Jiekai Liao explores the concept of...

In a tiny, six-square-meter room, a young Chinese man named Eryang envisions a republic of his own.

Is a parent’s love truly unconditional? Joy and Jordon are the youngest of five siblings, and the only two left living with their aged parents....

A Singaporean Gorilla is evicted from his jungle home to make way for new Built-To-Order flats. Thrown into civilisation, he breaks into Mama’s...

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenagers from all across the country to prepare...

A couple of colleagues try to play a Virtual Reality Game that turned into reality.

The Chew family is one of 55,000 Singapore families forced to relocate the remains of their relatives to a columbarium as the gravesite is needed for...

On a hot humid day, Singapore is shrouded by the haze from Indonesia. Two teenagers skip school to idle the time away, and an innocent love affair...

As two old men fish by the jetty, they begin to remember their kampong days.

Karōshi (過労死) is a vast examination into the issue of overworking in contemporary society, the struggles that perpetuate...

The film draws on the tribulations following the Japanese Occupation and the subsequent stirrings of nationalism that arose. It marked the first time...

CHIU Kang-chien directed his first full-length film, Waken from A Dream of Red Chamber in Singapore in 1977, but it was never released in Hong Kong...

1957 / Belantara / Adventure in the Jungle / S. Ramanathan / Malay Film Productions

Entrenched in his grief, Steven follows the orders of a priest to burn his late wife’s belongings. On his journey, he meets a bullied teen in a...

1954 / Pawang / Soothsayer / K. M. Basker / Malay Film Productions

Juan and Nick are intertwined in a tussle of love, confusion and agony as Juan struggles with society's expectations and the calling of his heart. Is...

Based on a story by the 19th century Greek writer Lafcadio Hearn, who settled in Japan as Koizumi Yakumo, this film is a parable about how man is a...

When young working mother Amelia is notified that her 3 month old son is underweight, she has to decide what’s best for her son while battling...

1955 / Sehati Serasa / One at Heart / Armaya (A. R. Tompel) / Nusantara