Singapore Movies

Longing for a life beyond her hometown in the Thai province of Buriram, Ploy moves to various Southeast Asian cities in search of work. She ends up in...

The Believers is a wry, quietly observant film that captures secular and non-secular rituals practiced by the average Singaporean. In juxtaposing the...

In this coming-of-age film, 17-year-old Zaki’s ambitions are disrupted by his troubled family past, and he now has to wrestle with the idea of fatherh...

This hybrid documentary film proposes a safe space for queer life in Singapore.

The film captures a Singaporean zeitgeist in stop-motion sequences of impressionistic pencil drawings. Over 1,000 handdrawn portraits of real-life MRT...

Maung Okkar grew up in a film studio compound amid a family of filmmakers. Reminiscing on the involvement of his family, grandparents and uncles in th...

In 2017, the infamous Sungei Road Thieves Market, which predates the founding of Singapore by over 30 years, was forced to close and make way for the...

In the forest a strange battles morphs into a curious détente.

Set against a utopian 3D rendering of Singapore, Makes This World Live Young Again is a music video featuring ant mascots in uncanny settings includin...

For the first time in 57 years, Ah Guan walks the streets with his simple signboard for all to see: ‘HONEST MAN NEED (sic) A WIFE.’ His only requireme...

With bracing honesty, filmmaker Quen Wong shares her journey as a transgender woman in Singapore—from her days as a teenage boy coming out to her unco...

Arnont Nongyao’s ‘Mekong travelogue’ combines fragments of personal history with a strange sonic world to tell the story of losing oneself to ‘unconsc...

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...

Juxtaposing two films made during different periods of major political, economic and social upheaval in China, Maja Korbecka complicates dominant narr...

Revisiting the Indonesian horror / exploitation films of the 80s and 90s that he loved as a teenager, Riar Rizaldi examines the ways in which these fi...

Cheng, an ambassador of Peranakan Culture in Singapore discovers a painting that propels him to leave Singapore.

Stuck on a solitary, windswept rock in the ocean you get to see some crazy things.

Micheal is bullied in school until one day when he seeks vengeance.

How is Singapore's identity constructed in Singapore cinema?

A married man talks to his married neighbour in a rooftop cafe. Adapted from the Wong Kar-Wai film “In the Mood for Love”.