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, moderated by Viknesh Kobinathan on Sat 8 Aug 2pm.
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.
Viknesh Kobinathan is a cultural worker and organiser whose practice explores gatherings around sound and image as acts of care, healing, rest, and refusal. He holds a postgraduate degree in Film Studies from the National Film and Television School in England. Based in Singapore, he is part of the film programming team at Objectifs – Centre for Photography and Film. He was previously Programmer at the Asian Film Archive and Programme Manager at The Projector.
One people, one nation, one drink-apore! This is the National Day Parade watch party of your dreams! A room full of friends and strangers united by a general…ambivalence to the project of patriotism, an in-theatre bar, sing-along, yell-along viewing and of course DRINKING GAMES! The nation’s booziest National Day Parade watch party is back with a new venue partner (we know!). Come stand up, get drunk and stumble home for Singapore while the nation’s finest emcees (in our price range) say all the things in your head that you want to say aloud!
And who are these fine emcees providing live commentary?
Qilah Rose Her buttock damn big sia. Wow!
Lychee Bye Juicy, fleshy, luscious and quite rude!
Kishan Kumar Singh Pink Dot's emcee and half of the T42 podcast.
Becca D’Bus The foul mouthed host of RIOT!, Singapore’s only regular drag revue.
ALSO!
Prize for the best dressed person! Come as your Singaporean thing!
Please note:
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
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!
In Mandarin, English and Tagalog with English subtitles.
Rated PG13 for Coarse Language
Wet Season revolves around the life of Ling, a schoolteacher who deals with infertility while having to take care of her infirm father-in-law at home. One of Ling's students, Kok Wei Lun, develops a crush on her during remedial Chinese classes. The two become closer as Wei Lun embraces Ling's extra tutoring.
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!
In Mandarin and English with English subtitles.
Rated M18 for Mature Themes and Sexual Scenes.
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!
In Mandarin and English with English subtitles.
Rated PG13 for Some Coarse Language and Sexual References.
