Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare screens in Singapore at Perspectives Film Festival on 8 November
Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik's 1977 classic Perfumed Nightmare plays at 4:00 pm on 8 November at GV Cineleisure as part of Singapore's student-led Perspectives Film Festival, according to the festival lineup and FACT Magazines.
Kidlat Tahimik's 1977 Filipino classic Perfumed Nightmare screens in Singapore on Sunday, 8 November, as part of the student-led Perspectives Film Festival, according to the festival's official lineup and FACT Magazines.
The Perspectives Film Festival lineup lists the screening at 4:00 pm at GV Cineleisure, with tickets at $10. The film runs 95 minutes in Tagalog with English subtitles and carries a PG rating.
A jeepney driver and the American dream
Playing himself, Tahimik portrays a Filipino jeepney driver drawn to the promise of the American dream, the festival synopsis says. After an American businessman offers him a driving job in Paris, his vision of progress collides with reality.
The lineup notes that the film opens on the jeepney, a Filipino public transport vehicle rebuilt from American military jeeps, and treats that reinvention as a triumph of Filipino ingenuity. Tahimik wrote and directed the film after working alongside Werner Herzog on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), the festival page says.
Under The Hood at PFF 2026
FACT Magazines reported on 30 September that the 19th Perspectives Film Festival runs from 6 to 8 November under the theme Under The Hood: Automobility In Cinema, with screenings at Oldham Theatre on 6 and 7 November and at Golden Village Cineleisure on 8 November. On the final day, FACT Magazines said Perfumed Nightmare sits between Summer Drift and Bi Gan's Kaili Blues.
allaboutsingapore.com likewise lists Perfumed Nightmare among the seven-film programme as a Filipino film about a jeepney driver dreaming of technological progress, with the festival organised by NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
How to go
Tickets are sold through the Perspectives Film Festival site. The lineup prices Perfumed Nightmare at $10. cinemas10.com also points readers to perspectivesfilmfestival.com for the 8 November, 4:00 pm GV Cineleisure screening.
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- The Perspectives Film Festival 2026 lineup lists Perfumed Nightmare (1977) by Kidlat Tahimik on 8 November at 4:00 pm at GV Cineleisure, priced at $10, runtime 95 minutes, Tagalog with English subtitles, rating PG.
- FACT Magazines reported on 30 September 2026 that the 19th Perspectives Film Festival runs 6 to 8 November under the theme Under The Hood: Automobility In Cinema, with Golden Village Cineleisure hosting 8 November screenings including Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare.
- The festival lineup synopsis describes Tahimik playing a Filipino jeepney driver whose vision of the American dream collides with reality after a Paris driving job offer.
- allaboutsingapore.com lists Perfumed Nightmare as a Filipino film in the seven-film PFF 2026 programme organised by NTU's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.
- cinemas10.com promotes the same 8 November, 4:00 pm GV Cineleisure Perfumed Nightmare screening as PG with tickets via perspectivesfilmfestival.com.
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