SFS Showcase

We want to spark conversations with exclusively-curated titles fresh from the international festival circuits and making their Singapore premieres with us. Free for members.

SFS Preview

We bring you early access to selected movies days or weeks before their official theatrical release, through our various partnerships with local distributors. Free for members.

SFS Spotlight

We highlight films, contemporary or classic, screened by our partners that either come with that extra oomph (post-screening Q&As!) or movie releases that are just too good (or fun!) to ignore. Free for members.

SFS Special Presentation 

We launch special screenings on a seasonal basis that could be restored classics, films in Chinese dialect, or something that might just surprise you. Discount code for members.

SFS Festival

We co-organise major film festivals annually, including the Singapore Chinese Film Festival, European Film Festival, Japanese Film Festival, and many more. Discount code for members.

Thurs, 7 Nov

📍 The Projector, Golden Mile

 Free for SFS Members

SFS Spotlight: PIERCE

The screening will be accompanied by a post-show Q&A with writer-director, Nelicia Low, and moderated by multi-disciplinary artist, Benjamin Kheng.

Dir. Nelicia Low
Cast: Liu Hsiu-Fu, Tsao Yu-Ning, Ding Ning

2024 | Singapore, Taiwan, Poland | Drama, Thriller | 109 min | Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles | M18 (Some Mature Content)

Zijie is a young fencer longing to reconnect with his estranged older brother Zihan, who mysteriously returns after seven years in juvenile prison for killing an opponent during a fencing match. Zijie believes Zihan’s insistence that he is innocent and secretly decides to help him, defying their mother’s efforts to erase Zihan from their lives. In return, Zihan starts to train Zijie in fencing and Zijie improves immensely, getting selected to compete at the upcoming National Championships.

As the brothers grow closer, their mother finds out that they have re-united and is furious at Zijie, yet Zijie stubbornly sticks by his brother. But Zihan’s hostile past is triggered after an argument, leaving Zijie to finally question whether his beloved brother might be a violent sociopath after all.

Awards: Winner - Best Director, Crystal Globe Competition (2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)

Sat, 16 Nov

📍 The Projector, Golden Mile

 Free for SFS Members

SFS Showcase #38: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE + AGM

The screening is preceded by SFS AGM presented by Chairman Kenneth Tan. The AGM is open to both members and the public.

SINGAPORE PREMIERE
Dir. Magnus von Horn ("Sweat")
2024 | Denmark, Poland, Sweden | Drama | 115 min | Danish with English Subtitles | M18 (Sexual Scenes and Some Nudity)

Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work. 

Awards: Nominee - Palme d'Or (2024 Cannes Film Festival); Denmark's official 2025 Oscar submission for Best International Feature

Programmer's Note: With two strong female lead performances anchoring the film, we become pulled into the immersive world-building as a clandestine baby adoption service is operated out of a nondescript candy store in post-WWI Copenhagen, at a time when abortion was illegal and many lived in abject poverty. Recalling the likes of Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" and David Lynch's "The Elephant Man", the film, based on a true story, mixes gothic noir aesthetic with a peculiar if 'modern' soundscape, and will enthral viewers who are into powerful miserabilist dramas with an undercurrent of disquiet. (Eternality Tan, Vice-Chair & Programming Director)

30 Nov - 1 Dec

📍 Golden Village, Suntec City

 Discounted for SFS Members

My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ©Studio Ghibli

Animation Nation 2024: MIYAZAKI, SPIRIT OF NATURE

SOUTHEAST ASIA PREMIERE
Dir. Léo Favier
2024 | France | Animation/Documentary | 82 min | English, Japanese, French with English Subtitles | PG

For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films. Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away), or his latest film Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (The Boy and the Heron), to name only a few of eleven feature films, ten short films, several manga, and also through Studio Ghibli, a museum and a theme park.

Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings.

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