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4 wins & 7 nominations including 2023 Tokyo Film Festival Winner - Best Artistic Contribution Award.

Inspired by a shocking real event – an armed heist by workers at a factory in northeastern China in the mid-90s. As seismic cultural and economic changes sweep the country, the working class struggle with the rapid changes, and decide to take matters into their own hands. A slick crime drama and first impressive directorial debut by Director Gao Peng.

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.

Raised in a troublesome neighbourhood, local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, charmed by her fearless spirit and sharp wit. As powerful first love blossoms between the two, rampant gang violence entices him into a much darker path and ultimately destroys all they have built when he is charged with a crime he didn’t commit. After many years apart, now leading profoundly different lives, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they’ve taken leads them back together, but will love triumph over Clotaire's quest for revenge?

1 wins & 11 nominations including nomination for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Kate Winslet) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

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Lee, the directorial feature from award-winning Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslet). Miller's singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century's most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler's private bathtub.

Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience. Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full-throttle in pursuit of truth, for which she paid a huge personal price, forcing her to confront a traumatic and deeply buried secret from her childhood.

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4 wins & 13 nominations including 2024 Golden Horse Film Festival Winner - Best New Director, 2024 Cannes Film Festival Winner - Golden Camera & 2024 Singapore International Film Festival Winner - Best Asian Feature Film

*Ticketed at $18, 50% of the ticket proceeds go to TWC2.

Join us for a special screening of Singapore International’s Film Festival Beast Asian Feature Winner, MONGREL on Sunday, 26th January 2025. 50% of the ticket proceeds will be donated to Transient Workers Count 2, a non-profit organization in Singapore dedicated to advocating for the fair treatment of migrant workers.

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.

The Projector 10th Anniversary Screening

(Screening + Post Show Conversation with Director Kirsten Tan & Multidisciplinary Artist, weish)

Date: Sat 1 Feb, 4:30pm at Golden Mile Tower

*Sundance Film Festival Winner for Screenwriting (World Cinema)

*Rotterdam International Film Festival Winner (Big Screen Award)

On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together – only to discover the truth about himself.

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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.

Rated M18

Date: Sat 25 Jan, 8pm at Cineleisure

The Projector 10th Anniversary Screening

You know the drill! Spoons provided so don’t bring any weird shit!

A timeless Projector tradition returns, right on time. Celebrate our 10th anniversary with cult classic The Room! Once called ‘the Citizen Kane of bad movies’. So baddd, yet hilariously good!

Join us for our Projector 10 Afterparty after the screening!

-From: 18 Jan-

41 wins & 113 nominations including Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Trent Reznor) for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

After a devastating injury, former tennis prodigy Tashi is forced to compete by coaching her husband, a champion on a losing streak. Their worlds are turned upside down when he’s pitted against the washed-up Patrick, his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.

Emotions run high in Luca Guadagnino’s smouldering and outrageously twisted three-way romance!

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-Opens: 13 Feb-

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

In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bonds of marriage—and break up affairs— by any means necessary. Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

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-Opens: 29 Jan-

26 wins & 52 nominations incl.2024 Cannes Winner - Jury Special Prize & Fepresci Award.

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.

50 wins & 250 nominations including Winner for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (Peter Straughan) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

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.

-Dates: 18, 26, 31 Jan-

9 wins & 2 nominations including Best Actor, 1997 Tokyo International Film Festival.

From the mind of one of the world’s top horror directors, comes the spine-chilling film that kickstarted Japan’s glorious horror media explosion in the late ‘90s. A wave of bizarre, gruesome murders sweeps through Tokyo, all of them connected only by an ‘X’ carved into the victims’ necks and the fact that none of the murderers can remember why they committed the crimes.

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata), Starring Kôji Yakusho (Perfect Days)

-Dates: 29 Jan, 2 & 8 Feb-

Rated: R21

64 wins & 188 Nominations

A glamorous American couple’s illusion of marital bliss shatters when Amy Dunne goes missing on their fifth anniversary. As her disappearance becomes the centre of an intense media circus, questions arise about who Nick and Amy really are.

Directed by David Flincher (Se7en, The Social Network)
Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike

-Dates: 12, 25 Jan, 1 Feb-

Rated: R21

*TW: This film contains strong violence and scenes of sexual assault.

Forget a revenge dress, try a revenge film! A top-secret agent swears revenge on the bloodthirsty serial killer who slaughtered his fiancée. Unflinching and depraved, I Saw the Devil is a pulverising, operatic thriller propelled forward by fiery rage and top-notch filmmaking.

Directed by Kim Jee-Woon (The Good the Bad the Weird)
Starring Choi Min-Suk (Old Boy, Lady Vengence), Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game, A Bittersweet Life)

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30th Anniversary re-release of David Fincher‘s iconic thriller!

The 1995 Academy Award-nominated psycholigical thriller ushers in its pearl anniversary this year! with a theatrical re-release!

Two homicide detectives desperately hunt for a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the 'seven deadly sins'.

Directed by David Fincher (Gone Girl), Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman

-Dates: 15,19, 30 Jan-

5 Oscars Wins

The best performances of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins’ careers collide in the first horror film to ever win a Best Picture Oscar. Freshly minted FBI agent Clarice Starling (Foster) reluctantly enlists the help of cannibal killer Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins) to try and catch a new serial murderer who has been kidnapping and skinning young women.

Directed by Jonathan Demme

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28 wins & 61 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

98 wins & 205 nominations including 2024 Cannes Palme d'Or Winner.

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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.

*Rated: R21

*6 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.

39 nominations including a nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture (Forbidden Road) for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

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A singular profile of British pop superstar Robbie Williams.

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*31 wins & 60 Nominations including Winner for Best Motion Picture - Animated at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

*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.

*27 nominations including Nomination for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Hugh Grant) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

*Rated: R21

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‘Su-yeon’ (Cho Yeo-jeong), a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor ‘Sung-jin’ (Song Seung-heon), disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devasted over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to ‘Mi-ju’ (Park Ji-hyun), a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon’s house.

Meanwhile, Su-yeon, who is thought to have gone missing, remains trapped in a secret room inside her house, and watches the naked truth unravel before her.

97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

3 wins and 5 Nominations including 2024 Fantasia Film Festival Winner - Cheval Noir (Best Film).

Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

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For much of their 178-minute running time, Delaporte and de La Patellière let us delight in the spectacle of Dantès and his associates weaving their sinister, at times mysterious web — well-positioning us for the eventual reckoning, when we’ll be thoroughly invested in all these characters and their impending fates - New York, Vulture.

3 wins & 27 nominations including a nomination for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama (Tilda Swinton) at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

46 wins & 223 nominations including Winner for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

*English subtitles only available during songs, no subtitles during dialogue.
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Universal is rolling out a bunch of screenings specifically for the folks who fancy themselves background vocalist!

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season.

It’s not just a musical for theatre fans; it’s a musical with such a far-reaching scope and audience, with music that is just so damn sing-along-able.

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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.

46 wins & 223 nominations including Winner of Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes.

Elphaba, an ostracized but defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda, a privileged aristocrat born popular, become extremely unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. As the two girls struggle with their opposing personalities, their friendship is tested as both begin to fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West.

Rated: R21

No one believes roommates Jae-hee and Heung-soo are just friends, but they’re used to being misunderstood. Kim Go-eun and Steve Sanghyun Noh star in this romance exploring how young adults live and love in the big city of Seoul.

60 wins & 208 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.

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.

98% on Rotten Tomatoes

96th Academy Awards Nominee - Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay

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.

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Cannes Film Festival 2023 Winner - Best Actor

96th Academy Awards Nominee - Best International Feature Film

A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to rock music.