The Projector

In this psychological thriller, the wife and mistress of a loathed school principal hatch a plan to murder him while concocting the perfect alibi. They carry out the plan but his body disappears, and a series of strange occurrences ensue.

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Ernest, a big bear who likes to play music lives in a home with Célestine, a little orphan mouse. As Ernest prepares to hibernate, Celestine goes in search of the perfect ingredients to make him a batch of yummy cookies. These unlikely friends reunite in this beautifully animated and heartwarming tale.

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When a surgeon gets into a car accident that leaves his daughter permanently disfigured, he goes to extreme lengths in order to perform a face transplant for her.

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Singapore Premier

*Screening followed by a Q&A; with the director Denis Do*

In 1975 in Phnom Penh, Chou leads an enchanted life until one morning when the Khmer Rouge madness plunges Cambodia into horror. The population is deported to camps and Chou’s confronted to the pain of powerlessness. When her 4-year-old son is snatched from her by a feeling crowd, her world falls apart but she never loses hope as she fights to save her son and keep her family together in a barbaric time.

*Winner of Cristal Award for Best Feature Film at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2018

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Inspector Wens is assigned the case of a serial killer who leaves a calling card on his victims : Monsieur Durand. Learning that he is one of the tenants of a boarding house at No. 21 Avenue Junot, Wens takes a room in the guise of a Protestant minister to investigate. Suspects are arrested, but while each is in jail, there’s another murder.

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In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

*Winner of Palme d’Or at Cannes International Film Festival 1953

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This new adventure starts right where the last one ended. Belle is now a mother-of-three and Sebastian is 12-year-old. While he refuses to follow his father who decided to move to Canada with Angelina, he will also have to face a new threat: Joseph, who claims to be Belle's rightful owner. He wants to put his hands on Belle and her puppies... But Sebastian will do all it takes to protect his best friend and her little ones.

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Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Along the way, she faces many dangers, loses many clothes, helps a fallen angel (John Philip Law) recover his power of flight and faces down the devilish Black Queen (Anita Pallenberg).

Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) is back once again with yet another gripping morose-among-thorns performances alongside the exceptional Steve Carrell.

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.

Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out, BlacKkKlansman offers an unflinching, true-life examination of race relations in 1970s America that is just as bracingly relevant in today’s tumultuous world.

After her marriage to a wealthy businessman (Alec Baldwin) collapses, New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) flees to San Francisco and the modest apartment of her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins). Although she's in a fragile emotional state and lacks job skills, Jasmine still manages to voice her disapproval of Ginger's boyfriend, Chili (Bobby Cannavale). Jasmine begrudgingly takes a job in a dentist's office, while Ginger begins dating a man (Louis C.K.) who's a step up from Chili.

*Oscar winner - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Cate Blanchett

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet.

The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live Aid, where Mercury, facing a life-threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. In the process, cementing the legacy of a band that were always more like a family, and who continue to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.

British Museum presents: Hokusai is a groundbreaking documentary and exclusive private view of the major British Museum exhibition Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave. Focusing on the work, life and times of Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Japan’s greatest artist, the film uses stunning close-ups and expert insights to illustrate his wide-ranging influence and extraordinary legacy.

Critically-acclaimed and widely lauded as the antidote to the formulaic Hollywood cartooning, KIRIKOU is as mesmerising as it is thoughtful, funny & imaginative - a stunning story surrounding an intrepid boy-warrior on a quest against an evil sorceress that speaks of the very best in human impulses and behavior.

The man was carrying nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly.

This was Vincent van Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous artist in the world.

His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot.

Loving Vincent tells that story.

Loving Vincent is also the world's first fully painted feature film. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand painted by over 100 international artists. Bringing the paintings of Van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story.

In the 1920s, magician Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) enjoys widespread acclaim as Chinese conjurer Wei Ling Soo, his stage persona. As arrogant as he is talented, Stanley despises claims by phony spiritualists that they can perform real magic. At the behest of his friend, Stanley travels to the Côte d'Azur mansion of the Catledge family to expose a young medium named Sophie (Emma Stone). However, Stanley is left surprised and shaken by evidence that Sophie's gifts may be real.

Filmed live on Christmas Eve 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, and bringing to a climax the most eventful and exciting year so far in the band’s career, this ground-breaking concert was transmitted live on BBC Two’s Old Grey Whistle Test and captured the band firing on all cylinders as they performed breakthrough hits like Killer Queen, Liar, Keep Yourself Alive and Now I’m Here, as well as the now monumental classic Bohemian Rhapsody.

This special cinema event includes a never-before-seen documentary featuring archive footage and interviews with all four members of the band, offering an illuminating insight into the game-changing year of 1975. This new documentary digs deep into archive to tell the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a struggling band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured the UK’s hearts and minds with what was to become one of - if not the - greatest song of all time. Queen’s formative years have never been explored in such detail. With a wealth of unseen interviews, recently unearthed rushes of Queen’s first ever video and outtakes from the recording sessions of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ itself, this is the unique story of early Queen told by the band themselves.

A wuxia masterpiece by Zhang Yimou. Set during China’s three Kingdom’s era. The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The King, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called “Lord of the World”, will be the character around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them…

Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Mariam as she sets out against all odds to change her fate by launching a successful catering company, “Soufra,” and then expand it into a food truck business with a diverse team of fellow refugee woman who now share this camp as their home.

An enchanting film surrounding 3 characters of different social classes attempting to escape their unfinished painting in search of their Painter, LE TABLEAU’s masterful storytelling reveal shades of a surrealist Toy Story with a hint of tragicomic Shakespeare - an absolute feast for the senses.

Tickets: Presales are $20 (until 31 Oct), $30 (until 22 Nov), $40 (at the door!).

This Thursday evening of 22 November, we are teaming up with our mischievous friends from Prohibited Projects and are putting on possibly the craziest weekday concert in a while!

A cheeky world play on the touring acts, (as well as describing life in this sunny island!) this will have power pop punk trio DIZZY SUNFIST and melodic hardcore punk heroes COUNTRY YARD, both from Japan.

Joining them will be local crazies Standover (pop punk), Iman's League (punkrock) and Afsa (skramz), genres you don't really get to see live on a weekday!

Physical presales will be available from Inokii (Far East Plaza) as well as Roxy Records (Excelsior Shopping Ctr), but if you don't have the privilege of time, get it direct from us online at theprojector.sg!

See you and let's all get dizzy!

Slow down and breathe. This contemplative journey follows in the steps of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and is a rare insight into life within a monastic community. The sun rises. Everything is calm and still. Life is beautifully serene as Benedict Cumberbatch’s composed, meditative voice reads an extract from Thich Nhat Hanh’s early journals. So begins Max Pugh and Marc J Francis’ (Black Gold, LFF2006) fascinating and immersive exploration of what it means to devote one’s life to mindfulness.

With unprecedented access to the famous secluded monastery of Plum Village in the South West of France, Walk With Me captures the daily routine and rituals of monks and nuns on a quest to develop a deep sense of presence. It is an insightful rumination on the pursuit of happiness, living in the present and our attachment to material things – a welcome remedy to the stresses of city life and a world in turmoil.

Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.