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In this action-comedy, an agent races against time to upload sensitive files, but things take a chaotic turn when he's pursued by a group of baddies. Armed with unconventional weapons like a cowbell bat and Pokémon, he makes a daring escape through the streets, only finding safety when he reaches the MRT — leaving the baddies stranded, unable to follow without their EZ-link cards.
monsoon season is a collection of two short films - millipede and nature reserve 2025 - that explore ourselves through the relationship we have with the natural world. Stitching together the adolescence of the director and other young people, monsoon season is a complex meditation on finding space for oneself through nature and the unnatural, the formed and the formless.
Caught up in the fast flow of life, a fresh high school graduate ignores the looming pressures of university, instead seeking escapism through his companion.
This movie takes the viewers along Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's journey from his first meeting with Guru Gobind Singh Ji till he conquered Sirhind and established the first Khalsa rule.
An interview with Said Zahari, a staunch anti-colonial newspaper editor who was accused by the Singapore government of alleged involvement in pro-communist activities and subsequently detained without trial from 1963 to 1979. This film is banned by the Singapore government for "undermining public confidence in the Government."
Debbie Ding has been documenting survey markings and graffiti in Singapore. One particular set of graffiti catches her attention. Found in the back stairwell in Pearl Centre, Chinatown, the anonymous drawer roughly sketches a man and a woman beside a series of three numbers. Several of these same scribbles are found in different parts of the stairwell. What does it mean? What is the writer trying to communicate? Debbie, like a detective tries to decipher the meaning of these scribbles and she talks also of graffiti in general. Are these acts of vandals or are they notes from people seeking to communicate with others? Or are they acts of memorialisation by the writers themselves? Perhaps it is all three. Recently, Debbie excitedly reports, in the Bugis area near NLB, the same scribble. Has the Yangtze Scribbler moved?
Still Voices is a one-room drama about a young woman navigating the complexities of motherhood while confronting her broken marriage, and estranged daughter.
Ten-year-old Eliza's perception of reality begins to shatter after witnessing the limit of her mother’s mental deterioration. Illusions, memory and observations cast light and transform her world into something ill-fated.
1956 / Bernoda / Living with Shame / S. Ramanathan / Malay Film Productions
Cyber-religious architecture and ancient spiritual traditions merge in this essay by Singaporean multidisciplinary artist Shi Yun Teo. Remixing extensive archival sources in her computer, from found footage to 3D-rendered animations of deities, she configures a map of the material and the immaterial, of the distant past and a projected future, to reflect on how the traditional and the supernatural converge in our contemporaneity.
Jack Neo’s segment in the anthology film 7 Letters, the short is set in a 1970s kampung, following 12-year-old Cai Yun’s crush on a classmate who likes another girl.
Ping is a reclusive musician who is behind on rent due to writer’s block. When the landlord pressures him to pay up, Ping seeks creative inspiration from the view of a young couple below his apartment. Through this exercise, he is forced to confront the buried guilt borne from his girlfriend’s suicide, and ultimately learns to let go.
Paris, a city known for its love and light is now one of numbness and despair for Dian, an Indonesian woman who has been struck down by the death of her child. She is not alone, yet, her displacement is now more evident than ever. In the midst of her banal grieving, Dian goes through a contemplation of the spiritual—one that becomes a grounding factor in kickstarting her journey in facing her human heartache.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where fossil fuels have run out, humans must run on treadmills to generate electricity and hit mandatory output targets. An 18-year-old girl who often struggles to hit her output targets meets a disillusioned 30-year-old man, who wants to escape this life. Through their journey, she begins to wonder about the meaning of being alive.
A summer vacation listening to the opera of love, Dido & Aeneas, drifting into daydream and nightmare. Adriaan is ninety years old and in his golden hour. The inevitable will come to pass, he will have to leave his beloved House of Janus behind.
The film is a glimpse of queer parenthood in Singapore. It combines interview material with a constructed communal space for play and imagination. It presents queerhood as an open field of possibility, one brimming with life that is yet to come.
Lifelong friends Hun and Mia share an unbreakable bond, navigating life's highs and lows together. However, their friendship takes an unexpected turn when they come across the charismatic and mysterious newcomer, Leo. As emotions deepen and secrets unravel, a complex love triangle ensnares them in a web of passion, betrayal, and heartbreak. 'Halusinasiku' is a poignant exploration of love, loss, and the enduring strength of friendship in the face of tragedy.
Inspired by Jollin Tan’s poem ‘Shapeshifter’, eggs are used as metaphors in the film for self-representation, illustrating how humans break and conform to fit into society. However, whether fried, boiled, or scrambled, an egg is just an egg.
Boon, a Malaysian security guard in Singapore, resents his job after sacrificing family time. Learning his daughter is leaving to study abroad, he wants to see her before she goes. He must mentor Caleb, a rookie, before he leave. With the limited time he has, will Boon be able to train Caleb before his daughter leaves?
A lady tries to find her missing mother.
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 her own insecurities of motherhood.
A Japanese boy in a Singaporean food court bonds with a local boy from the universal language of food.
1955 / Saudaraku / My Brothers and Sisters / Laurie Friedman / Keris
1954 / 恩情深似海 / Love Deep As The Sea / But Fu 毕虎 / 万利公司 Ban Lee Film Co.
1954 / Dahlia / – / B. S. Rajhans / Keris [f]
Amudhan, a prisoner, endeavours to meet his brother after 8 long years wait. However, his plans are interrupted when a gang knows about his arrival.
Moments of tenderness devolve into tension, each party protagonist and antagonist as they wrestle for love, power and control.
Dian / Torch / Naz Achnas / Nusantara
Describe the transformation of three female protagonists, Chen Meimei, Yang Shuming, and Qian Haoru, from their personal personalities to their life beliefs during the pre war, post war, and the fall of Singapore.
Jenny is a teenager who has to live up to the “perfect life”. Taking care of her Asperger brother becomes the lens in which her inner world is projected upon, the dilemma of meeting expectations and the realistic failings of everyday life. Between an absent jet-setting father, real-estate mogul mother, a favorite teacher leaving, Jenny’s disappointment becomes sharper when her drama club fails to secure the championship. Unbeknownst to Jenny, the people around her are also going through their own journeys. Everything converge in a family crisis where all of them are forced to look at each other’s vision of what is the perfect life. Like the year 2020, the film marks the turning point. As events change, viewpoints have to be adjusted. Only with new vision can the future be possible.
While homemakers carve out time to walk for friendship, an individual walks in order to hear herself. Yet another woman walks to extend her art practice and to be seen and heard. The women in Walk Walk create "space" for themselves and others as they walk.
Four women start to face problems in their lives one after the other, with things getting increasingly worse with time. As they start to confront their problems head-on, their lives start to turn for the better and they discover their true selves.
Mathesh investigates the mystery behind the death of a well-known artist Shan through his unfinished paintings
Short Film about a Disfigured girl.
A filmmaker shares his journey of self-discovery while living abroad, far from his family.
Two men and their olive tree.
After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mata Hantu, before being murdered in 1942.
In Singapore in 2020, a drag performer named Opera Tang makes her debut in a pink dress as people cheer her on. She has her drag performance, through which she finds a best friend, and her lover, but the world surrounding her is not always pleasant. The conservative beliefs of her Catholic family, the ban on gay sex, and the system of conscription are harsh realities that she must face every day.
Marred with her delinquent past, 'Lin' hopes to turn over a new leaf as she graduates from a juvenile rehabilitation centre with stellar scores in the national exam. However, it seems that her streak of unfortunate circumstances trails behind like a spectre lurking in her shadows.
A young photographer, desperately looking for the perfect moment, falls prey to a supernatural camera.
A young religious woman gets married to a discreet gay man.
In the still of the night, an estranged father and son are forced to keep each other company. But given the void in their relationship can they make it through a lonely night?
A man suffering from depression is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him an umbrella, and together they enjoy the soft rain.
A rivalry between brother and sister comes to a head in a bid for their father's favour in their household.
Singapore and its evolving village neighbours, in strings of place names spoken or sung on film, spanning seven decades of the 20th century. This found footage film is named after a similarly-titled 1966 Malay-language Cathay-Keris feature movie produced in Singapore and directed by Hussain Haniff.
Recently widowed Liz struggles with grief while raising her two daughters - Gigi, a cynical teen venturing into romance, and pre-teen Stacy, whose imaginary boyfriend is her getting bullied at school. A coming-of-age, drama-comedy mockumentary about three women, all operating on what-ifs and varying circumstances of the heart.
Set in the future on the island of Pulau Ubin, two brothers are forced to evacuate their house and leave behind their childhood as sea levels rise dangerously. The film is a thought-provoking meditation on climate change and how it can affect livelihoods and relationships.
At the doctor’s office, Emit is surrounded by cold and indifferent onlookers. He tries but fails to pay attention to the seemingly redundant questions being fired at him. Frustrated by this unsympathetic crowd, Emit seeks solace back at home. Yet, this offers little respite as Emit’s mind and body continue to deteriorate. As daily life becomes increasingly dysfunctional, Emit finds himself struggling to reconcile the mismatch between his perception and reality.
Saodat Ismailova looks back at the history of female heroines over nearly a century of Uzbek cinema in order to chart the changing perception of women and the state of the film industry more widely. Commissioned as part of Asian Film Archive’s Monographs, a series of essays on Asian cinema.
Approximities presents us with a series of seemingly everyday vignettes. However, as the characters move in and out of the frame, the scenes increasingly gain an air of artifice.
Ten-year-old Samuel takes it upon himself to save his parents’ marriage by recreating a precious shared memory.
A local teacher and his paramour from China out on a rendezvous in one of the oldest parks in Singapore.
Andy, a veterinarian forced into the practice by his parents, develops a bond with Buddy, a dog he needs to put down.
A trilogy set in three iconic locations within Singapore's Little India district: Race Course Road, Campbell Lane and Syed Alwi Road. The notion of re-examining history by truth and myth through visual storytelling serves as the inter-connecting thread between the three short films, and the films offer glimpses of Little India through the 19th and 20th centuries.
A cancer-stricken young mother has to decide between having a baby or treating her illness - a process that might lead to the unborn child's death.
Two brothers raise money to keep their dying father alive. One delivers food, while the other resorts to more devious methods.