A Month-long Celebration of Singapore Stories on the Big Screen You got time for cinema? Don't have also must make time because cinema not just about entertainment – about culture ok? Come we got one good line-up of films, parties and events for you, local style~
At an authoritarian all-girls school, four misfit teens form a secret gang. Their fumbling rebellion unearths buried desires and the quiet violence of growing up in contemporary Singapore.
In English with English and Mandarin dual subtitles.
Rated R21 for Mature Content.
Limited Edition Amoeba T-Shirts available at the Box Office, while stock lasts!
6 Wins & 14 Nominations including:
Golden Horse Film Festival 2025 FIPRESCI Prize Winner
A life-altering event forces 21-year-old Junyang and his girlfriend to face reality. At the same time, while Junyang’s father is struggling to hold their modest life together, a woman enters his life and both generations are forced to redefine their family.
Collect 3 film posters signed by the cast and director if you watch all three films on the Growing Up Trilogy (Ilo Ilo, Wet Season, We Are All Strangers) on the weekend of 15 & 16 August at Filmhouse!
Live Q&A, Sun, 16 Aug
Join us for a live Q&A on Sun, 16 Aug, with Director Anthony Chen, Cast Members, Yann Yann, Jia Ler, Regene Lim and Andi Lim, Moderated by Singapore-based Artist Benjamin Kheng.
Karaoke Night, Sat, 22 Aug
The night doesn't end when the credits roll. Come sing your heart out like Bee Hwa does in We Are All Strangers, because we're hosting a open karaoke night with the cast and director at the Filmhouse Foyer after the evening screening! Grab the mic, sing along to old favourites, and enjoy ice-cold 1-for-1 Tiger Beers from 10pm exclusively for We Are All Strangers 22 August ticketholders.
In Mandarin and English with English and Mandarin subtitles.
Rated PG13 for Some Coarse Language and Sexual References.
TW: Contains scenes with flashing lights, photosensitive viewers are advised.
A curated selection of Singapore Shorts by Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film.
Scratch the surface of the clean and green, and something else stirs. How Can This Be Allow?! reveals a Singapore that doesn't make it into the tourism brochure: desire, repression, and the people who slip through the cracks of a spotless national image. A collision of shorts that shows an alternative side to what we call home.
This programme is rated M18.
Presented in collaboration with Objectifs
How Can This Be Allow?! will feature the following short films:
To Kill The Birds and the Bees by Dir. Calleen Koh
11 min | 2021 | M18
To Kill the Birds & the Bees follows three separate stories of four average Singaporeans – a pair of young twins, a secondary school prefect and a conservative housewife – who each encounter a sexual situation in the course of their day.
Someday My Prince Will Come by Dir. Ezzam Rahman
5 min | 2011 | PG
Someday my Prince will come – is an experimental video art made in 2011. “Good things come to those who wait” – it is about what lies around the corner, the anticipation of it all, the waiting for something to happen. This video artwork is a depiction of what revolves around themes of yearning, longing, and quiet hope. Ezzam turns his lens towards the complexities of queer desire, particularly the often-isolating journey of seeking connection and companionship. A poignant symbol of vulnerability and tenderness, set against the backdrop of a world increasingly shaped by the unattainable ideals of social-media perfect bodies, flawless skin, curated lifestyles. This video artwork is both a quiet confession and a gentle resistance: a soft, lingering echo of desire in an image-saturated age.
Gourmet Baby by Dir. Sandi Tan
15 min | 2001 | PG
An idiosyncratic inter-generational relationship plays out across the dining table. A lonely, middle-aged bachelor finds in his niece the perfect dining companion and indulges her in fine dining experiences designed to refine her tastes. However, no amount of fine dining can stop his protégé’s exertion of individuality.
Gunkworld by Dir. Mark Chee
10 min | 2020 | NC16
Gunkman, Sallysweets and Roboji are a gang of alien-monster students who terrorise their class with horrifying antics. As Gunkman’s mind-controlling powers escalate beyond the confines of the classroom, no one in the world is safe!
I Can’t Sleep Tonight by Dir. K.Rajagopal
9 min | 1995 | PG13
I can't sleep tonight is a tale of three illegal foreigners who meet in Little India one night together unexpectedly not realizing how much they have in common
sighnight by Dir. Jake Low
12 min | 2024 | M18
A family that appears ordinary on the surface grapples with the weight of expectations, secrets, and the haunting echoes of cultural traditions during a reunion dinner.
"sighnight" is an exploration of the lengths to which individuals will go to preserve familial honour. It is a story of survival, control, and the bonds that tether us to our roots, even as we strive to break free.
Roy Payamal is the wildest busker of a country ranked the world’s most emotionless society. He takes his undermined line of work as a serious art- but is his faith impossible idealism or an admirable conviction? Singapore Minstrel is an invitation into his beautiful mind, a magical, trying universe where art and life dialogue in a tropical dream.
In English with English subtitles.
Rated PG.
Join us for a live Q&A with director Salty Xi Jie Ng and artist Roy Payamal on Sat 5 September.
Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist, performer, educator, and mystic based between Singapore and Portland, Oregon. Her transdisciplinary practice is a collaborative, alchemical site intimately exploring the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, unseen worlds, and spirit realms, while examining artistic labour and what gets to be called art. Salty is the 2024 recipient of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists from the Headlands Centre for the Arts and the 2025 Arts Research Scholar-in-Residence at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art - University of the Arts Singapore.
