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Film Picks: Danish Film Festival, The Florida Project and more

PHOTOS: DANISH FILM FESTIVAL, THE PROJECTOR, FRANCOPHONIE FESTIVAL

DANISH FILM FESTIVAL

The festival this year features documentaries about design, covering architecture, modern art, and food sustainability.

In Bugs (PG13, 76 minutes, above), a team of researchers and chefs travel the world examining cultural attitudes towards insects, a source of protein that many in the developed world are repelled by, but which might be the solution to a host of environmental problems.

WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Till Sunday, various times ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: theprojector.sg

THE FLORIDA PROJECT (NC16)

112 minutes/Now showing

In a rundown motel near Disney World, entire families live month to month - it is their bulwark against homelessness.

Little Moonee (Brooklynn Prince, above right) lives with mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) in a community that might be unorthodox, but does not lack closeness and warmth.

Willem Dafoe (above left) was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Bobby, the manager trying to keep children like Moonee away from danger.

WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Tomorrow, 8.30pm, and Sunday, 8pm ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: theprojector.sg

FRANCOPHONIE FESTIVAL

In this event that celebrates the diversity of the French language around the world, films from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, among others, will be screened.

The list includes the France-Morocco-Belgium production Razzia (NC16, 119 minutes), starring Maryam Touzani (above).

The drama details the lives of five people in the city of Casablanca - four in the present day and one from an earlier time - whose lives eventually intertwine.

WHERE: Alliance Francaise de Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road MRT: Newton WHEN: Till Thursday, various times ADMISSION: $15 ($13 for members) INFO: alliancefrancaise.org.sg/cultural-events

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on March 16, 2018, with the headline Film Picks: Danish Film Festival, The Florida Project and more. Subscribe