FFIGS 28 NOVEMBER TO 7 DECEMBER 2025
ABOUT
Premiere? We hardly know her. FFIGS is Singapore’s most unofficial film festival (think of us as the younger, hotter, gloriously unemployed cousin of SGIFF).FFIGS is an expression of a collective desire to imagine other ways a film festival could be. Folks who love movies have tons to say. Every festival brings new questions, absurd ideas, and weird feelings. We rarely get to spill them in the moment. FFIGS gives us a place to do that. No stiff panels; just talking, messing around, and figuring things out together at 136 Goethe Lab.
FFIGS is independent. FFIGS will happen simultaneously with SGIFF. No premieres. No juries. No competition. Just the beautiful slimy mess of a film community fermenting together — sticky, alive, and a little bit forbidden.
Be ffiendish. Be ffun. Be ffigs.
CURRENT EVENTS
Find our updated events schedule and more details on our linktr.ee/ffigsffigsffigs, Instagram or Facebook.Outside of events, FFIGS Lounge is open for all to stop by. Think of it as an in-between space, a rest-stop on a cinephile’s journey. Hosted in 136 Goethe Lab, the FFIGS Lounge features a cozy film cave with F&B, communal activities and fringe events — an open space for conversations, rest and community.
28 November, Friday
FFIGS Opening Shu Qi Lookalike Party 6:30pm-10:00pm
Couldn’t get tickets in time to see Shu Qi? Dress-up and join us to kick off FFIGS festivities with an opening party that is fully Shu Qi-themed! Fun prizes to be won for the Shu Qi Lookalike Contest! Sign-up link can be found on our linktr.ee/ffigsffigsffigs.
29 November, Saturday
1. FFIGS Lounge Opens 1pm
2. Open Mic KTV Night 7pm-11pm
30 November, Sunday to 3 December, Wednesday
FFIGS Lounge Open 1pm-11pm
4 December, Thursday
1. FFIGS Lounge Opens at 1pm
2. Bring Your Rejected Film Potluck 6:30pm-8:30pm
Was your film rejected from SGIFF? Bring it along (in a thumb/hard drive) to 136 Goethe Lab for a Film Potluck, where your USB sticks with films will be lined up on a first-come-first-served basis to form a 90-minute potluck screening. And as with a potluck, we can share, enjoy each other's films and talk about them in a safe and flexible atmosphere. Details and sign-up link can be found on our linktr.ee/ffigsffigsffigs.
3. Rooftop Picnic 8:30pm-10:00pm
Following the Bring Your Rejected Film Potluck, come up to the Goethe Terrace at L4 for a chill rooftop picnic. Chat about films you’ve seen or missed, and what else we are all looking forward to.
5 December, Friday
FFIGS Lounge Open 1pm-11pm
6 December, Saturday
1. FFIGS Lounge Open 1pm-11pm
2. Liong Gim Rave 7pm-10pm
Join us for the Liong Gim Rave :p, drinks and music on the Goethe Terrace Rooftop, L4. Check our upcoming post for the DJ setlist! Sign-up link can be found on our linktr.ee/ffigsffigsffigs.
7 December, Sunday
1. FFIGS x COCKEYE AWKWARDS (Awkward Awards) 4:30pm-6pm
Sometimes you go to SGIFF, watch films and then have a lot of thoughts. Critical thoughts, awkward thoughts. Us too. We joined all our anime brain power and created THE awards ceremony that we think addresses all these thoughts, and we want YOUR opinion to decide the winners! Vote for the awards and RSVP for the ceremony: link can be found on our linktr.ee/ffigsffigsffigs.
2. Post-Awards Closing Hangout Party 6pm-10pm
THE ARTISTS
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.THE SPACE
136 GOETHE LAB is a new project space at the Goethe-Institut Singapore. Housed in the former library and reading room, the space is intended as a response to the need for physical spaces for the arts, and an ongoing conversation with the public and arts community in Singapore.FFIGS is supported as part of the open call for 136 GOETHE LAB, which invited applicants to activate the space with a group proposal.