12 – 21 June 2026

SINGAPORE

The Italian Film Festival returns to Singapore for its 24th edition, further strengthening its role as a leading cultural event in the local landscape and marking a new chapter in the presence of Italian cinema across the region.

Running from 12 to 21 June 2026, the festival will present eleven films reflecting the vitality, diversity, and ongoing evolution of contemporary Italian cinema, spanning genres from comedy and historical drama to coming-of-age stories, westerns, and horror.

This year’s edition marks a particularly significant milestone: for the first time, the Italian Film Festival in Singapore joins Italian Screens, the programme promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and coordinated by Cinecittà. Following editions in cities such as Paris, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Beijing, Singapore now becomes part of this international circuit, reaffirming its strategic role in the dissemination of Italian culture across Asia.

From the young athlete shaped by the complex guidance of his coach in My Tennis Maestro, to the couple confronting the illusions of rural life in Green Family, today’s Italian cinema continues to portray contemporary life with irony, emotional precision, and honesty.. A Brief Affair and Five Seconds explore human relationships through stories where emotions rarely move in a single direction, while Buen Camino follows a father walking the Camino de Santiago in search of his missing daughter — only to rediscover himself along the way. Primavera. Primavera transports audiences to eighteenth-century Venice, where a young woman discovers that music can change the course of her destiny.

Alongside these works are more daring and visionary films, including the folk horror The Holy Boy, which reimagines themes of happiness and suffering through unsettling imagery, and the dreamlike western Heads or Tails?, which revisits the mythology of the frontier through a distinctly European lens. The programme is completed by coming-of-age and identity-driven stories such as Unicorns and Sweetheart, together with a special screening of Dario Argento’s Deep Red, a tribute to one of the most iconic masterpieces of Italian genre cinema.

The event is curated by the Embassy of Italy in Singapore in collaboration with the International Department of Cinecittà and partner cinema Filmhouse, together with the Singapore Film Society, whose longstanding support has helped foster a vibrant and engaged cinephile community. The initiative is also made possible thanks to the support of the Embassy’s Diamond sponsors.

All films will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.

Tickets and full programme details will soon be available at: filmhouse.sg/seasons-events/iff/