The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) returns from 21 October to 1 November 2026 with two new programmes: Junior Explorers, a children’s film slate with sensory-friendly screenings, and Parallax, a free public programme on cinema and technology.
SGIFF Junior Explorers: three films for young audiences
Junior Explorers features three films from Chile, Ireland and Japan, all making their Southeast Asian premieres. Selected screenings are held in a relaxed, sensory-friendly environment with hands-on activities afterwards, so families can keep exploring each story together.
Brave Cat (Chile), directed by Gabriel Osorio Vargas, follows a young cat searching for her mother. Julián (Ireland), directed by Louise Bagnall, is an animated fantasy about a child who discovers the magic of self-expression in New York City. The Invisibles (Japan), directed by Ryo Takebayashi, is a live-action family adventure about a father and his three daughters who leave their secluded island home.
Screening dates and venues
Brave Cat and Julián each screen twice. Both have a relaxed screening with post-screening activities for audiences aged five and above on 25 October at the National Museum of Singapore’s Gallery Theatre, and both return on 1 November at Golden Village Bugis+. The Invisibles screens on 31 October at Golden Village Bugis+, for audiences aged 10 and above.
After Brave Cat, children can turn moments of frustration into decorated paper planes and launch them together. Following Julián, young audiences and their parents are invited to celebrate what makes them different through self-decoration and personal storytelling, before a group dance.
Parallax: cinema meets technology
Parallax is a free public programme at Esplanade that looks at filmmaking, artificial intelligence and immersive technology. It includes free VR demonstrations from Korea’s Ubac Studio and French VR companies, plus panel discussions with technologists and innovation leads from Amazon MGM Studios, Adobe and Studio Realive (SM Entertainment Group). Topics include authorship, ethics and the role of technology in human creativity.
Tickets for the 37th edition are on sale at sgiff.com. For more on the festival, read our guides to SGIFF 2026 tickets, prices and discounts and the 37th edition line-up. SGIFF is supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Release details and images courtesy of SGIFF.
