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2024 Golden Horse Winner & Berlinale Crystal Bear Nominee

Considered a rebel veteran of Chinese independent filmmaking - three time Silver Bear (Berlinale) winner - Director, Wang Xiaoshuai’s latest inventive and poignant family drama, delves into the complexities of rural life and intergenerational bonds. A meditation on loss, displacement, and the cost of progress.

-Date: 7 May-

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years.

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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and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.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.

-COMEDY NIGHT-

Date: Sat 10 May, 8pm

The Projector, Golden Mile Tower

One of the minds behind the Amazon Prime hit “Rainbow Rishita”, Navin Noronha is finally coming to Singapore!

For One Night Only, Navin brings the comedy and laughs that you’ve come to expect from one of India’s finest. Get the chance to see all of Navin’s signature sarcasm and wit, coming from his real-life experiences as one of India’s first openly gay comedians.

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A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties.

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54 wins & 70 Nominations including Winner for Best Animated Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards.

*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.

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-Opens: 8 May-

Thurs 08 May - Screening + Virtual Post Show Q&A with Director Neo Sara, moderated by Filmmaker Daniel Hui. Pls select the 8 May show if you wish to attend the Q&A.

That feeling when you’re just a couple of Japanese high school ravers suddenly thrown into a totalitarian school regime of surveillance and control. In Neo Sora’s first fictional coming-of-age film, best friends Yuta and Kou get swept up in student protests against an oppressive system. As Kou dives deeper into activism and begins to change, their bond starts to crack. With bold visuals and a rebellious soundtrack, the film captures the shift from youthful apathy to political awakening.

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-Opens: 15 May-

Unprecedented and audacious, HOLLYWOODGATE is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash'at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Risking his life in the war-torn nation, Nash'at is on the ground with the Taliban when they enter an American base loaded with a portion of the roughly $7 billion worth of U.S. armaments left behind. Driving towards an astonishing and chilling end, Nash'at tracks Taliban leaders as they attempt to transform from a fundamentalist militia into a modern military regime, employing Hollywood-style propaganda to achieve their goals.

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

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.

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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.

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-Dates: 17, 24 May, 1 & 7 June-

Reel Rock 19 showcases three world-premiere climbing films spanning disciplines, characters, and continents: a heartfelt story of second chances in love and climbing on Squamish’s legendary Cobra Crack; an outrageous 18-day big wall epic on Patagonia’s towering Torre Central; and the pursuit of a lifelong dream—a 5.15 first ascent—made possible by an unlikely partnership.

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Ticketing Conditions

Ticket conditions: Projector Vouchers & Projector Member Free Tickets are NOT valid for this screening.

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Reel Rock 19 Market :

(17th May, 12:30pm - 6pm, The Projector at Cineleisure)

In conjunction with the premiere of Reel Rock 19, we have a one-day event by local brands like Full Crimp Milk, Boulder Planet, Mag.on.crag, Ded.Within, Isaac Thread and Your Local Newsstand

Stand a chance to win prizes when you purchase tickets to Reel Rock 19!

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One man, endless meals, zero small talk. The Solitary Gourmet is here to prove that eating alone isn’t lonely—it’s a delicious art form. From sizzling street food to perfect noodle slurps, every bite is a main character moment. Who else loves a good solo food adventure?

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Stand a chance to win a pair of round-trip Economy Class tickets from Singapore to Japan with Japan Airlines! Simply purchase a ticket to THE SOLITARY GOURMET by 23 April.

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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.

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2024 Cannes Film Festival winner for Director's Fortnight Audience Award.

Wes Anderson meets Matthew Rankin in this Canadian absurdist comedy-drama - blending 1980s Iranian cinema with a surreal triptych of intersecting stories set in a mysterious interzone somewhere between Winnipeg and Tehran