[ International Premiere]

A tongue-in-cheek docufiction that turns authenticity on its head in this interrogation of centralised power.

[World Premiere]

Jin and his family are in mourning following his mother’s death. While her spirit has returned to visit her husband, Jin is desperately looking for signs of her.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A psychological drama of moralities that dives deep into the complexities of individuals, as truths are altered as much as the perception of them shifts.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A young girl struggles to deal with her transgender father’s transition in this contemplative semi-autobiographical debut.

[Singapore Premiere]

Fifty-year-old Mdm Tam joins a bus tour to the Mekong Delta with a friend. On the trip, she bumps into her high school sweetheart and embarks on a mission of reconciliation.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Arnont Nongyao’s ‘travelogue’ about his personal history and stories is a hallucinatory journey into a fog of glitch, noise and fragments of memories, where bliss resides in the fuzzy edges of meaning.

[World Premiere]

Two teenage boys idle away a seemingly ordinary afternoon, but as events stir up hidden feelings, confusion leads to the testing of boundaries.

[Southeast Asian premiere]

In this period romance starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, each little gesture of desire carries immeasurable weight.

[World Premiere]

Two schoolgirls encounter the ghost of a former student in an abandoned school. Enlisting their help to pass into the afterlife, the ghost brings them around the building, reliving painful and joyous memories.

[Singapore Premiere]

Aswang takes an unflinching look at the nightmarish reality in Duterte-era Philippines as monstrous terror is unleashed upon the urban poor.

This stellar, award-winning debut examines the extreme isolation of a woman’s suffering that is quiet, though no less acute.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

An alluring story of an alien in human form who arrives at the construction site of a colossal temple. His human encounters include a beguiling medium who has appeared in his dreams.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A close study of the cathartic final scene of Hindi box office hit Krantiveer (Brave Revolutionary), now a popular meme, reveals the instability of meaning and the power of one’s subjectivity.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Using scenes from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Coming of Age’ trilogy, Pam Virada presents an entrancing, lyrical study of physical and psychological interiors shaped by spellbinding magic-realist stories.

[World Premiere]

Work and welfare take many forms in this free-wheeling and unapologetically rowdy documentary centred on a used-goods trader.

[ Southeast Asian Premiere]

Tsai Ming-Liang returns to feature filmmaking with this tender, meditative portrait of two solitary men whose lives intersect briefly.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A montage featuring scenes of soldiers’ deaths in Vietnamese propaganda war films reveals striking similarities, highlighting their crass nationalist agenda.

In this story of courage and finding one’s true voice, acclaimed Hong Kong singer Denise Ho searches for her identity.

[Asian Premiere]

Dieudo Hamadi’s latest documentary on the survivors of Congo’s Six-Day War is a triumphant show of the strength of the human spirit.

[World Premiere]

In this microcosm of the modern world, three couples, each at a different stage of their lives and relationship, face up to the conflicts of their differing cultures, backgrounds and beliefs.

Using scenes from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Coming of Age’ trilogy, Pam Virada presents an entrancing, lyrical study of physical and psychological interiors shaped by spellbinding magic-realist stories.

[International Premiere]

A son looks after his dying father. Trapped together in the family home, old conflicts resurface while death approaches.

Iconic photographer/muralist JR strikes up an unlikely friendship with illustrious French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda as they embark on a tender, enchanting road trip through the French countryside.

[World Premiere]

A young man and a dancer, as well as choreography and reality, cross paths in a documentary that entangles as much as it explores.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

At a dream-like golf course on an idyllic day, Isabel, the new ‘tee girl’, struggles to understand her role on the greens, from social hierarchy to staving off her youthful curiosity.

[Southeast Asian premiere]

In Kelly Reichardt’s atypical Western, two outcasts strike an unlikely entrepreneurial friendship in 19th-century Oregon.

[Asian Premiere]

In this ode to memory and loss, a familiar song leads a grandmother’s spirit back to her family during the Chinese ghost month.

[Southeast Asian premiere]

In this moving magic-realist tale, a teenage boy copes with the loss of his beloved community and home with gravity-defying means.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A haunting fable about myths and violence, Genus Pan charts humanity’s dark impulses through a gold miner’s tragic homecoming.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A multilayered, haunted film that invokes the spectres of Indonesian horror cinema to examine the othering of people on the peripheries.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

The modern history of Uzbekistan is told through its cinematic history, focusing on the evolution of female heroine archetypes in Uzbek films.

[Singapore Premiere]

Against the stillness of the graveyard shift, two lovers reflect on the transitory lives they lead in Singapore. They wrestle with the inevitability of their fates, unwilling to give in.

An uplifting drama about a father’s love for his son and the difficulties of letting go.

[World Premiere]

After the death of her beloved grandmother, Ting struggles to cope with the loss, unsure of the lively funeral rituals. But, beneath strong appearances, everyone copes with grief differently.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

An allegory for distraction, a teenage boy roams Manila looking for an anonymous hookup. The men he eyes end up dead, and he must now find his true desire.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In Mexico’s northern frontier region, lyrical and horrific moments follow a mother who knows no bounds in finding her missing son.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, the humble bag is often deployed as a surrogate for human touch, sometimes to hilarious effect.

[International Premiere]

An impressionistic child’s-eye view from Judy, of the hope, longing, disruption and disappointment experienced by the families of migrant workers like hers during their infrequent reunions.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Brimming with life and humour, Keep Rolling is a warm and richly humane portrait of celebrated Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A period chamber drama that challenges the existence of absolutes—even death.

[Singapore Premiere]

Facing obsolescence, a stoic truck driver tries to retain control of his life in this gritty take on what it means to become one’s work.

[Singapore Premiere]

Ram reluctantly becomes a brother figure to a young and helpless boy, both undocumented workers. Living in such intense precarity, mutual support might be the only way to survive.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In this taut dystopian thriller, a posh wedding is interrupted by unwelcome guests who seek to destabilise the current social order in Mexico.

[World Premiere]

A teenager struggles to care for her newborn in the wake of her mother’s disappearance.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

The condemned do not go gently into the good night, fighting with their stories instead, in this kinetic and dizzying thriller.

[World Premiere]

Poetry, movement and theatre are fused in this lyrical experiment to express the ineffable feeling of being young in today’s Malaysia.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In this graceful portrait of nomadism, Chloé Zhao challenges the romanticism of American freedom against a forced life on the road.

[World Premiere]

An unexpected romance between a Malay Muslim woman and a Chinese man whose parents run a roast pork stall.

[World Premiere]

Drawing inspiration from his memories of his grandmothers, Michael Kam imagines their childhood spent under different imperialist rule.

[Singapore Premiere]

In this homage to Menschen am Sonntag (1930), the watchful surveillance of the camera captures the paradox of actors trying to relax while working, revealing the artificiality of the moving image.

[World Premiere]

Narratives of migrant workers’ experiences in Singapore are stitched together in a documentary that is not afraid to play with form.

[International Premiere]

Yao-Wei takes his girlfriend home to Malaysia for the first time. In the midst of a monsoon, he tries to find the right time to tell his parents of his engagement.

[Singapore Premiere]

In an undercover spy mission, a transgender woman disguises as a masculine man to lure a student activist, only to fall in love.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

With his father, grandfather and uncles involved in Burmese cinema in one way or another, Maung Okkar’s family history is inextricably entwined with Myanmar’s film history.

[Asian Premiere]

Ten-year-old Samuel takes it upon himself to save his parents’ marriage by recreating a precious shared memory.

[World Premiere]

Narrated in Kristang, a critically endangered creole language of Portuguese Eurasians, Saudade reimagines rituals of early Eurasian kampongs to tell a story of loss and displacement.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Maja Korbecka offers a sharp, feminist analysis of two Chinese films made during different turning points in China’s history, both dealing with Mao’s campaign to ‘re-educate’ former sex workers.

[World Premiere]

Sementara casts a nonjudgmental eye on the anxieties of disparate individuals who call Singapore home.

[Asian Premiere]

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there's more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers.

[World Premiere]

A dutiful son struggles to reunite his fractured family as they deal with his ailing father’s condition. However, the shocking discovery of a family secret threatens to undermine his efforts.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A tense, compelling drama of sexual abuse in the world of high-performance sports.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Using archival footage, Raya Martin resurrects the fraught history of Philippine film, which leads us to wonder about the future of cinema—as the film asks, “How do we watch movies without cinema?”

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A young beautician working late at night in a salon tentatively gives in to her desires for a young delivery driver who cruises the streets of Phnom Penh on his motorbike.

[World Premiere]

A docufiction that investigates alternative Indonesian histories through a rumination of colonial ruins, the role of technology, and the invisible power of indigenous ancestry.

[Southeast Asain Premiere]

A young woman returns to her hometown where she connects with the old, the new, the city and herself.

[World Premiere]

Moving through the rhythms of the day, man, as an organism, needs water, sunlight, rest—and a nice cup of coffee— but not without a few mishaps.

[Singapore Premiere]

A sculptor from the city visits a remote coastal village in Bangladesh where he faces challenges to his world views and beliefs.

A lyrical tale of the circumstances of a young woman from a nomadic tribe doubles as a timely comment on the tense Kashmiri situation today.

[Asian Premiere]

In the wake of his grandfather’s passing, Raga accompanies his grieving grandmother. A faint yet familiar smell piques his curiosity, leading him on a journey of self-discovery in the fading apartment.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Old-timers and their canine friends go on perilous journeys for elusive truffles in this insightful and sumptuous documentary.

[Singapore Premiere]

Along the Mekong River, a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant. Meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In this bleak study of human agency, a brick factory and its community fall apart in quiet desolation.

[Singapore Premiere]

Continuing in his signature of repetition and difference, Korean auteur Hong Sang-Soo’s latest focuses on women’s interactions, revealing undercurrents of ambivalence.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

Wes Anderson meets Black Mirror in this light-hearted satirical comedy that questions the construct of happiness in Singapore.

[Singapore Premiere]

Myths and memories meet in this contemplation of a typhoon’s devastation on a seaside city.

A subtle yet electrifying mystery drama that sensitively deconstructs the ideal of a nuclear family.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

A young boy must decide between supporting his family or honoring his father’s traditions in this gentle and uplifting Mongolian drama.

[World Premiere]

How does one change after having stared death in the face? In this hand-drawn animated short, a man’s love for watermelon becomes the catalyst for introspection.

After stumbling across an alarming national secret, a Japanese businessman and his wife embark on a treacherous journey to bring this discovery to light.

[Southeast Asian Premiere]

In this poetic, magic-realist film, a portal is a chance for connections—but only if we embrace the unknown.

[World Premiere]

A girl and a gun may be all you need to make movies, but it takes a lot more to open a cinema in the Kazakh steppes, it seems.

[Singapore Premiere]

Meeting in their youth as political detainees, Kaminah and Kusdalini embark on a lifelong journey together, supporting each other through the challenges of growing old.