Leave it to Christopher Nolan to take a 3,000-year-old high school reading assignment and turn it into an epic popcorn blockbuster that doubles as a sharp critique of hubris, greed, and the human cost of imperialism.
Following the fall of Troy, King Odysseus embarks on a treacherous ten-year journey across the Mediterranean to return to his kingdom of Ithaca. While he navigates terrifying monsters and the wrath of sea gods, his wife Penelope must hold their home together against a ruthless horde of suitors claiming his throne and his family.
In English.
Rated NC16 for Violence.
The film title rings a bell? You're probably thinking of that 2015 anthem with the iconic music video that became a touchstone for a generation of queer women. Ten years on, Hayley Kiyoko, affectionately dubbed the "Lesbian Jesus" by fans, brings her beloved song to the big screen in her feature directorial debut!
Set over one unforgettable, sun-soaked summer, Girls Like Girls follows Coley, the new girl in town, as she experiences the exhilaration, uncertainty, and vulnerability of first love while learning to embrace who she truly is. Starring Maya da Costa, Myra Molloy, and Zach Braff, the film is a heartfelt coming-of-age story about self-discovery, friendship, and the courage to choose yourself.
To celebrate the film's Singapore exclusive release at Filmhouse, we're so excited to present a virtual Q&A with Hayley Kiyoko herself after the Fri 7 Aug, 8.30pm premiere, moderated by local artist and beloved queer icon Jean Seizure. Join us for an intimate conversation about bringing an internet-era cultural phenomenon to the screen, queer storytelling, and Kiyoko's journey from musician to filmmaker.
In English
Rated R21 for Homosexual Content.
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.
Before diving into Ildikó Enyedi’s latest work, Silent Friend, revisit the Hungarian master’s Berlinale Golden Bear winning masterpiece that captivated audiences worldwide.
Set against the backdrop of a stark Budapest slaughterhouse, two socially awkward co-workers discover they’ve been sharing the exact same dream every night, where they transform into two deer quietly falling in love in a snowy forest.
Bizarre, tender, darkly funny, and poetic, On Body and Soul is one of the most uniquely arresting love stories modern European cinema has ever produced. Don't miss this rare big screen pairing!
In Hungarian with English subtitles.
Rated M18 for Sexual Scenes
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.
