56 wins & 93 nominations including Best Original Screenplay nominee at the 97th Academy Awards.

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

Now a widowed mother of two in her fifties, Bridget Jones feels lost in the world of app-based dating. However, romance unexpectedly sparks with her son’s science teacher… and a much younger man.

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

Sat 22 Feb 1:30pm, The Projector Cineleisure - Join us for a Virtual Q&A with Director Elizabeth Lo, moderated by filmmaker Jasmine Ng.

Please choose the 22 Feb date option if you wish to attend the Q&A.

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. We guarantee you'll have lots of burning questions about the filmmaking process once you watch it, so join us for a one-time-only virtual Q&A with the very person who's got all the answers: director Elizabeth Lo!

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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.

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

82 wins & 233 nominations including 96th Academy Awards Nominee - Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay

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Fri, 7 Mar, 7:45pm, The Projector Cineleisure - Join us for a Virtual Q&A with Director, Celine Song, moderated by Nicole Midori Woodford (Singapore Film Directo)

Can you believe we've been screening Past Lives for 80 weeks straight now? Neither could we, and neither could A24, so they hooked us up with a very special, one-time-only, exclusive post-show Q&A with Oscar-winning director Celine Song! We know we said we were done screening Past Lives, but it seems that The Projector and Past Lives just have in-yeon. Come join us one last time, for real for real!

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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.

*Rated: R21

118 wins & 328 nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year nominee for the 97th Academy Awards.

*The 3h 34mins runtime includes a 15-minute intermission, this will occur at 1h 40mins into the film as intended by the filmmaker. A countdown clock will be on screen.

*TW: Themes of sexual violence and assault.

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

-The Projector Valentine's Showcase-

-Dates: 15 & 21 Feb-

8 wins & 10 nominations including 74th Berlin International Film Festival Winner - Teddy Award for best LGBTQ-themed feature film.

Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.

-Dates: 16, 22 Feb & 2 Mar-

10 wins & 24 nominations including 2012 Berlin International Film Festival Winner - Silver Berlin Bear - Best Director.

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In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.

-Dates: 8, 22 Mar-

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Craft + Chill: Clueless Crafternoon

Sat 8 Mar, 4:30pm, The Projector, Golden Mile Tower

Please choose the Sat, 8 Mar date option if you wish to join the Crafternoon event.

This International Women's Day join The Projector and Work o' Fart for a relaxed afternoon of creativity and cinema! Bring along your art & craft supplies – whether it’s knitting, sketching, scrapbooking, crocheting or embroidering – and settle in for the 30th Anniversary screening of the 1995 cult classic CLUELESS!

Step into the glamorous, glittery world of Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), a Beverly Hills teen with a knack for fashion, matchmaking, and turning chaos into couture. Laugh, craft, and bedazzle your way through Cher’s hilarious journey of self-discovery. Whether you’re team plaid skirts or team ‘As if!’, join us this Crafternoon to celebrate one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time. Rollin’ with the homies has never been this stylish!

We'll leave the house lights on, in the hall, so you’ll have a cozy setting to work on your projects while enjoying the visual feast!

*Patrons should not bring materials or supplies that can cause damage to the cinema's seats and upholstery, this includes acrylic, oil paints."

-The Projector Valentine's Showcase-

-Dates: 14, 18, 22 Feb & 2 Mar-

73 wins & 111 nominations including 2005 Oscar Winner - Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

5 wins & 30 nominations including Best Achievement in Cinematography nominee for the 97th Academy Awards.

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

TW: This film contains several sequences with flashing lights which may affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photo sensitivities.

-The Projector Exclusive-

29 wins & 54 nominations incl. 2024 Cannes Winner - Jury Special Prize & Fipresci Award.

1 Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film.

An investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife and their two daughters, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise. Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended.

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.

-The Projector Exclusive-

35 wins & 71 Nominations including Winner for Best Motion Picture - Animated at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

2 Oscar nominations including Best Animated Feature Film.

*This film is exempted from classification and is suitable for all ages.

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The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

-The Projector Exclusive-

Join us for a virtual Q&A with writer/director Chiang Wei Liang and producer Lai Weijie, moderated by Nicole Midori Woodford - Sat, 1 Mar, 1.30pm (Golden Mile Tower)

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.

Date: 6, 14, 20 & 25 March

The Projector Cineleisure

The ordered life of a TV presenter threatens to unravel when she finally confronts her domineering husband about an accusation made against him. Her subsequent flight precipitates a chain of lies and paranoia in this taut psychological thriller that explores the nuance of guilt, complicity and self-deception.

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 5, 15, 21, 29 Mar-

18 wins & 18 nominations including 1987 Oscar nominee for Best Director.

*WED 5 March show - Projector members enjoy a special $6 discounted ticket price.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 9, 15, 23 Mar-

A dream of dark and troubling things . . .

David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 22 & 30 Mar, 2 Apr-

Rated: R21 TBC*

"We've met before, haven't we?”

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

* The film is expected to be rated R21, please do not buy tickets if you're under 21 years old.

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 12 & 29 Mar-

Rated: R21

50 wins & 61 nominations including 2002 Oscar nominee for Best Director

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

-A David Lynch Retrospective-

-Dates: 8 & 14 Mar-

11 wins & 22 nominations including 1981 Oscar nominee for Best Picture.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

-The Projector Valentine's Showcase-

-Dates: 19, 23 Feb & 1 Mar-

5 wins & 13 nominations including 1991 Cannes Film Festival - Palm d'Or Winner.

*WED 19 FEB show - Projector Members enjoy a special $6 ticket price.

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Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

-Opens: 27 Feb-

18 wins & 118 nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year for the 97th Academy Awards.

In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar and forges relationships with musical icons on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that reverberates around the world.

-The Projector Exclusive-

31 wins & 63 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).

*Rated: R21

7 wins & 18 nominations including a nomination for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Nicole Kidman) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.

TW: This film contains a scene with strobe/flashing lights that may trigger/affect individuals with photosensitivity.

-The Projector Exclusive-

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.

Find someone made just for you.

A billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate.

56 wins & 278 nominations including Winner for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (Peter Straughan) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

8 Oscar nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year.

When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.

-Opens: 27 Feb-

4 wins & 7 nominations including 2024 Venice Film Festival Winner - Cristics' Week Award - Best Film.

In a suburban town near Hanoi in the early 2000s, housewife Tam finds out that her husband is cheating on her. Instead of confronting him, she voodoos her husband back into love.

-Opens: 6 Mar-

Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.

-Opens: 27 Feb-

41 wins & 161 nominations including Best Achievement in Cinematography for the 97th Academy Awards.

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

-The Projector Exclusive-

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.

-The Projector Exclusive-

-Opens: 27 Mar-

Upon receiving a message from an old friend’s daughter, Goro arrives in Paris and learns of the elderly man’s wish to taste a particular soup he had in his childhood before he dies. Deciding to help, Goro sets out on a quest to find this mysterious soup, traveling through Japan, braving a storm, and even ending up in South Korea.

-Dates: 9, 18, 22 Mar-

59 wins & 85 nominations including 2017 Oscar & Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

When the fun-loving Winfried decides to visit his stern, business-minded daughter Ines in Bucharest, the two end up clashing and Ines asks her father to go home. But Winfried decides to stay, taking on the role of Toni Erdmann, Winfried‘s bolder alter- ego who, posing as a life coach, decides to finally break down the barrier between himself and his daughter.

-Women Make Film-

-Opens: 16 Mar-

The story of two women who find themselves living together: a shy writer named Makio Kodai (Age 35), and her niece, Asa Takumi (Age 15).

It shows us a form of kindness that the world needs right now.

Rated: R21

106 wins & 255 nominations including 2024 Cannes Palme d'Or Winner.

6 Oscar nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year & Best Original Screenplay

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Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Directed by Sean Baker (The Florida Project)

*This film has been passed with edits. The film contains an utterance of a religious profanity that exceeds the IMDA Classification Guidelines and has been muted for public exhibition.

-The Projector Exclusive-

-Opens: 13 Mar-

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

76 wins & 227 nominations including Winner for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (Demi Moore) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes and 2004 Cannes Film Festival Winner - Best Screenplay.

5 Oscar nominations including Best Motion Picture of the Year.

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. Starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.