This year's Perspectives Film Festival is its 19th edition.
The festival is run by the undergraduates of Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information.
The 2026 Perspectives Film Festival will be held at Oldham Theatre from 6 to 7 November, and at Golden Village Cineleisure on 8 November.
Go full throttle at the 2026 Perspectives Film Festival with seven films that make the automobile the main character.
When imagining the curriculum for students in one of the world’s top schools for media studies, modules such as scriptwriting, strategic communications, and studying cultural ideology come to mind. At Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, undergraduates explore something more grounded in the reality of the creative landscape. From 6 to 8 November 2026, students in the number one school in Asia, according to the 2026 Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings by Subject for Communication & Media Studies, will be taking over the Oldham Theatre and Golden Village Cineleisure to host the Perspectives Film Festival.
Now in its 19th edition, this year’s lineup falls under the theme Under The Hood: Automobility In Cinema, focusing on the deeper symbolism of automobiles and how they shape the human experience beyond simply being a means of transport. First on the rollout at the 2026 Perspectives Film Festival on 6 November 2026 is the George Miller epic Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, featuring its eponymous protagonist in a dystopian world battling it out for precious fuel.
A succession of award-winning films follow on day two of the festival’s screenings, with indie productions and a peculiar entry by one of Hollywood’s most prolific directors. Filmmaker Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov presents Luna Papa, a comedy-drama centred on a scandal-ridden Tajikistani family on a cross-country race to corner an enigmatic stranger. Then there’s The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot, following four European men on a perilous journey transporting highly explosive nitroglycerin in South America. Crash by David Cronenberg closes off the day’s schedule, with a controversial plot involving sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists.
The final day of Perspective Film Festival’s screenings on 8 November 2026 similarly introduces a trio of disparate pictures. It begins with Summer Drift by Céline Carridroit & Aline Suter, a faux documentary diving into the trials and tribulations of a female trans mechanic named Johanna Schopfer in Belgium. Next to screen is actor-director Kidlat Tahimik’s comedy Perfumed Nightmare starring a Filipino jeepney driver chasing the American dream. And the last entry in this year’s screenings is the profound mystery Kaili Blues by Bi Gan, where a doctor in rural China travels by motorcycle, dilapidated pickup truck, and a wooden boat, in search of his missing nephew.
Tickets to the 2026 Perspectives Film Festival are now available. An early-bird discount for a bundle to view all seven movies is available exclusively at the Commune @ *SCAPE pop-up running on 10 October 2026 by the festival’s organisers.
Where: Oldham Theatre, 1 Canning Rise, Singapore
When: 6 to 8 November 2026
Contact: perspectivesfilmfestival.com