Sweet, Sour, Spicy, Savoury, Salacious Shorts (SIDE B: GOLDEN MILE) with FFIGS - Weekend Culture: Block Party

Sun 22 Nov (2.15pm to 3.30pm)

Venue: Filmhouse

Day 2 Pass: $25
Weekend Pass: $39 (Includes access to day 1 & day 2 programmes)
See full Weekend Culture: Block Party programme here

Your favourite illegimate cousin (FFIGS) is back with a bigger helping of their popular A Tactile & Gastronomical Encounter experience. This time, dynamic curation duo Deepag and Daryl are paying homage to Golden Mile's roots as a Thai enclave, with a curation of film-snack pairings inspired by spirit and place. SIDE B: GOLDEN MILE collects shorts that feature the historic locale, and snacks that go well with them!

Check out SIDE A: KIN KHAO here!

This programme is part of Weekend Culture: Block Party

IMDA rating to be advised

Programme

Matinee at Three (2024) by He Shuming 4’
In an old cinema, The Lion City (1960), Cathay-Keris's first Chinese film, plays to a dwindling audience. An homage to Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn acts as an ode to the ghosts and sanctity of the cinematic space.

Metabolist Regeneration of a Dementia (2019) by Jerome Ng Xin Hao 11’
Golden Mile Complex, an important icon of 1970’s Metabolist urbanism, faces demolition in Singapore. The film speculates on an alternative vision for this residential block, saving and absorbing physical artifacts from Singapore’s threatened urban infrastructure.

Sonder (2024) by Owen Chen 19’
Entrenched in his grief, Steven follows the orders of a priest to burn his late wife’s belongings. On his journey, he meets a bullied teen in a club. The unlikely duo carry Steven’s burden together.

Through Your Eyes (2025) By Nelson Yeo 20’
In a discotheque stuck in the 80s, four lives intertwine as each searches for connection and meaning amidst the pulsating beats and timeless allure of an era that refuses to fade.

Durian, Durian (2025) By Nelson Yeo 7’
Two lost souls find each other underneath a durian tree. Both are fed up with life and in search of some kind of salvation. Eventually, it arrives, but in a different form than expected.

About FFIGS

FFIGS is a co-created space, led by a non-hierarchical collective of programmers, artists, and community-builders. Like the fig fruit—formed through the nutrients of a digested wasp—FFIGS is oppositional yet nourishing. Its goal is to resist institutional mediation and instead foster intimacy, collective study, and shared political imagination around cinema.

Partners

This edition, we're proud to be partnering with the following groups and organisations:

Canon | Corner Room | FFIGS | Filmhouse | JBL | Lightonboard | Objectifs | Roland | Sandisk | The Standard | Swee Lee