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-OPENS 30 JULY-

Winner - Special Jury Award (2020 Rotterdam Film Festival)

A Louis Vuitton bag stuffed with cash becomes the catalyst for a cascading chain of events - the colour of greed turns blood red in this crime thriller romp involving a group of cash-strapped people.

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15 Aug to 15 Sep 2020

This intimate story takes us into the lives of three high school athletes from across the US - all at different stages of their athletic seasons, each sharing their lives as transgender teens, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.

Our main character, Mack Beggs, made headlines in 2018 when he became the Texas State Champion in girls wrestling -- as a boy.

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A story about five young people who neither feel Male or Female, but rather position themselves somewhere in between. They all have their own struggles, but together they create and share a compelling story about acceptance. The film plays with the curiosity, interest and incomprehension of anything outside the mainstream gender norm.

Special 10th Anniversary limited screenings! Don't miss catching INCEPTION on the big screen - the screening will feature an exclusive behind the scenes look at Christopher Nolan's upcoming TENET.

Visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Dunkirk, Memento, The Dark Knight) writes and directs this psychological sci-fi action film about a thief who possesses the power to enter into the dreams of others.

Your body is your own. But is it really? Autumn discovers she is pregnant. Seeking help from Skylar, the only person she trusts, the two teenage girls make their way across state lines to New York in search of anonymity and a resolution - with whatever little means they have. Director Eliza Hitmann (Beach Rats) presents an intimate portrait of female friendship in a time of personal crisis.

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This film is likely to be rated M18 & above, please DO NOT buy tickets yet if you are below 18 years old. We will update the webpage once we received the rating.

Set in a richly imagined 1980s Saigon, Song Lang is a gritty underworld noir hiding a tender, romantic heart. An unlikely bond forms between an underground debt collector and a Cai Luong Vietnamese folk opera performer. With intricate costumes, set designs and Wong Kar-wai aesthetics, this feature debut by director Leon Le delivers a beautifully performed story of soul-wracking regret and aching love, set against the backdrop of a gorgeous, fading art form.

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Look out for a Virtual Q&A with writer-director James Sweeney. Q&A date to come!

He might be gay. She might not care.

This romcom switches up the usual trope - gay twenty something Todd has found his intellectual and emotional soulmate... in a girl. Not that she minds, sex is off the table as they build their relationship but Rory's own set of securities leaves her wondering if he is the The One.

Slasher film with a political twist - a group of elite liberals kidnap and hunt down citizens in true BLUE Blumhouse fashion. Denounced by President Trump himself, in a tweet no less. Starring Hilary Swank and Emma Roberts.

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-Opens 30 July-

From Emmy winning director Lauren Greenfield, The Kingmaker centers on the indomitable character and controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines whose behind-the-scenes influence of her husband Ferdinand’s presidency rocketed her to the global political stage.

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Two retirees, Nina and Madeleine, have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine's family, think they are simply neighbours, sharing the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event puts their relationship to the test.

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

With the support of the Embassy of France in Singapore.

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31 July to 30 Sep 2020

Two different families spend their holidays in the same house by the seaside: the aristocratic Castelvecchios, open-minded, eccentric, but quite selfish, and the working-class Petagnas, tight-knit and united around conservative values. These two families collide when it's announced that the patriarchs, Tony and Carlo, plan to wed! The unexpected announcement will turn each family upside down.

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Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.

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When Martin falls in love with wealthy and well-educated Elena, he is caught between his dreams of rising above his humble origins to become a writer, his love for the woman he hopes to marry and his political reawakening that leads to a conflict with her bourgeois family.

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A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to a woman.

And Sardinian men always keep their promises.

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The perfect film for lovers of literature and intrigue alike, writer/ director Rémi Bezançon presents a riddle wrapped in an enigma, packed into a cheese-stained pizza box, that begs the questions: Who is Henri Pick, and how did this supposedly illiterate pizza cook write an acclaimed bestseller?

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

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Cannes 2019 Palme d'Or Nominee

"Show-stopping! A big, bold true-crime gangster movie" - The Guardian

The real life story of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s, and the man who brought down the mafia...

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In the South of Italy, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life - Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan - try to regain their lost innocence and escape together towards a new start.

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Five cultures, five women, one story.

An empowering documentary that shows how some women are smashing the patriarchy, reclaiming their bodies and celebrating their sexuality without shame or suffering.

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In partnership with the High Commission of Canada in Singapore.

*Toronto International Film Festival Winner - Best Canadian Feature Film

*Canada's official submission for Best International Feature category for 2020 Oscars

Gripping, powerful, and of-the-moment, Antigone loosely adapts Sophocles' Greek tragedy and situates it in contemporary Montreal. The latest from critically acclaimed Québécois writer-director Sophie Deraspe (The Wolves, The Amina Profile) is a compassionate family drama that doesn't hold back on its indictment of the current refugee and immigrant experience in North America.

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Why are there so few women directors in Hollywood? HALF THE PICTURE grabs the issue by the balls, through candid interviews with Ava DuVernay (SELMA), Lena Dunham (GIRLS), Catherine Hardwicke (TWILIGHT) and Jill Soloway (TRANSPARENT) among others and sheds light on their personal stories of harassment, disrespect and bias.

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Love in a time of tyranny: this stunning water color-style animation directed by the two-woman team of Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec chronicles life under the Taliban, while highlighting the suffering of women in the regime. A story of love, brutality, sacrifice and hope based on Yasmina Khadra’s best-selling novel.

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After a job turns sour, Ana, who is in her mid-20s, returns to Strasbourg to be close to her beloved grandmother and best friend. While juggling a hopeless affair, a self-set task and a farewell, she looks for her place in the world.

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

With the support of the Embassy of France in Singapore.

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-OPENS 15 JULY-

Romance is a business. Family, friends, followers. All available for hire. A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a twelve year old girl.

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Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighbourhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls. As she falls further under their bravado and volatile energy, she begins making brave and foolish choices.

Directed by Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

With the support of the Embassy of France in Singapore.

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After a municipal decision, a shelter for homeless women, ‘l’Envol’, is about to close. With only three months to reintegrate the women they care for, the social workers do everything they can: pulling-strings, bending the truth, and even outright lies... From now on, everything goes!

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

With the support of the Embassy of France in Singapore.

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Cannes 2019 Un Certain Regard winner for Best Actress (Chiara Mastroianni)

The delicious new film by acclaimed writer/director Christophe Honoré (Love Songs, Inside Paris) is a light and playful new comedy about love and fidelity set over the course of one life-changing night.

Presented in collaboration with Institut Français

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A ravishing celebration of female passion and desire - Girlhood director Céline Sciamma returns with a beautifully calibrated, incandescent romance between a painter and her subject.

Winner for Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at Cannes
Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

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-Opens 15 July-

Four years after South Korea’s total decimation in TRAIN TO BUSAN, the zombie thriller that captivated audiences worldwide, acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho brings us PENINSULA, the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world.

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An unforgettable meditation on love and grief - a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

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Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature

An intimate and compelling first-hand account of the Syrian war through the eyes of citizen-journalist and new mother Waad Al-Kateab.

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2020 Oscar Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay

Taika is back to Taika your funny bone! A heartwarming tale of friendship, loss and (mostly misplaced) loyalty, JOJO RABBIT follows a young German boy as he wrestles with his imaginary friend Hitler at the crossroads of conscience.

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5 Oscar nominations and Golden Globe Winner for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) and Best Actress Saoirse Ronan

Greta Gerwig’s moving and gloriously funny film about growing up, mother-daughter relationships and the anxiety of separation.

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Eat pray love - cult edition

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Oscar Winner for Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), Best Adapted Screenplay

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself. Told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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A powerful, consciousness-raising love story of a couple on the run. Directed by Grammy Award-winning Melina Matsoukas, a visionary director of some of this generation’s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including Beyonce’s ‘Formation’ music video and starring Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya.

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Don't miss this hard hitting tale, now more relevant than ever on the cruel gig economy and the working class struggles of Ricky, a rookie delivery man and his nurse wife, Abbie.

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From train station to concert hall to ice rink - Leo Tolstoy’s unparalleled classic goes full Broadway as the prestigious Moscow Operetta Theatre take to song and dance to re-imagine the iconic Anna Karenina.

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2020 Golden Globe winner - Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Awkwafina

2020 Independent Spirit Awards winner - Best Feature Film, Best Supporting Female (Zhao Shuzhen)

A fake wedding masks an uncomfortable truth - and a painful farewell.

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2020 Oscar Nominee for Best Achievement in Cinematography

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers trying to maintain their sanity on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Feat. Willem Dafoe with his dafriend, R Patz.

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The highly anticipated follow-up to 2013's Camera d'Or winner Ilo Ilo. A mature and restrained drama that observes the complex relationship between a teacher and her young student.

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Waves traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family—led by a well-intentioned but domineering father—as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.

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Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.

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Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

Nineteen-year-old Songlian (Gong Li) is forced to marry the powerful lord Chen Zuoqian after her father's death. She soon discovers that behind the palatial luxury of life in the master's house, she and her fellow concubines are pitted against each other in a struggle for his affections.

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In a small town in China, village elder Wang (Lei Laosheng) ends an argument with the peasant Qinglai (Liu Peiqi) by kicking him. Incensed, Qinglai's indomitable and heavily pregnant wife, Qiu Ju (Gong Li), demands an apology from the village chief. When she doesn't get one, Qiu Ju embarks doggedly on a quixotic search for justice, taking her case to higher and higher levels of government and encountering maddening levels of bureaucracy in the process.

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Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

Grand Jury Prize Winner - Cannes Film Festival

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

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"Extra Ordinary" is an extraordinarily funny tale about ghostbusting, lonely hearts and moving on. It'll possess you. The horror rom-com we never knew we needed!

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Based on a true story of a brave, resourceful young girl who leads a small band of orphans through Nazi-occupied France. A gripping and moving coming-of-age drama bristling with suspense and poignancy.

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2020 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature & Best International Film

The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

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Ryota learns that his biological son was switched at birth with the boy he has raised, and he must make a life-impacting decision between his two sons.

From award winning Director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Nobody Knows, After Life)

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Director Dominik Moll’s engrossing, nonlinear mystery thriller, where five characters on two continents play a role in the death of one woman.

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A struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit.

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Palme d’Or winner Kore-eda’s follow-up to the wildly successful Shoplifters is another masterful family drama surrounding prima donna actress Fabienne (Catherine Deneueve), whose newly published memoirs are challenged by her daughter (Juliette Binoche). Feat Mr. Worldwide Indie King Ethan Hawke.

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New York Film Critics Award - Best Actress

Obama's Film Pick for 2018s

The general manager at a highway-side “sports bar with curves” has her incurable optimism and faith–in her girls, her customers, and herself–tested over the course of a long, strange day.

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Official Selection: 30th Singapore International Film Festival 2019 &
30th Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019

Following his son’s close brush with ISIS, a Somali immigrant father in the USA seeks to understand the forces that pushed his son towards terrorism. A hard-hitting yet sensitive documentary exploring racism, prejudice, recruitment by radicalised groups, and the struggles of Muslim youth growing up in the US today.

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Nominated for 10 Césars, including Best Film, this deliciously deadpan comic soufflé from the directors of The Intouchables concerns the behind-the-scenes planning of an elaborate wedding. Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a veteran event coordinator who thinks he’s seen it all—until he must pull off a spectacular wedding at an 18th-century chateau (complete with waitstaff in powdered wigs).

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Co-written and produced by Bong Joon Ho (Director of PARASITE, SNOWPIERCER and THE HOST).

A gripping nautical thriller based on a true tale where a fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.

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After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Screenplay by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood, Portrait of a Lady on Fire)

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Sweet, sexy, surreal, and mouthwatering - the tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe.

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Dismembered limbs. Topless mermaids. Crabs with human heads. These Chinese folklore-themed statues, in all their surreal, grotesque glory, are seared into the minds of visitors to Singapore’s Haw Par Villa. But no one knows them as well as Teo Veoh Seng. Decades ago, he started out as an apprentice at the park, which opened in the 1930s; now, at 83, Teo has finally decided to retire. Though his successors prepare for his departure, what will be lost when the master craftsman steps down?

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A mistaken lunchbox delivery connects Ila, a neglected housewife to Saajan (Irrfhan Khan), a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Through their exchanged notes, they develop an unexpected relationship.