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A Rendezvous with French Cinema: The 41st vOilah! French Film Festival Returns to Singapore
- Organised by the Embassy of France in Singapore, and co-presented by Alliance Française de Singapour and Shaw Organisation.
- Preferential rates for students and senior citizens for screenings at Shaw Theatres Lido, Shaw Theatres PLQ and Alliance Française de Singapour
- The 2025 edition will screen over 30 films spanning action, drama, comedy, literary adaptation and family animation.
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 14 November 2025 – The magic of French cinema returns to captivate audiences once again as vOilah! French Film Festival brings its 41st edition to screens across Singapore from 13 to 30 November 2025. This year’s festival spotlights stories of courage, imagination and human connection, a reflection of how French filmmakers continue to illuminate universal experiences through their craft.
“Cinema remains a vital pillar of our cultural partnership, reflecting the enduring strength and shared aspirations of France and Singapore,” said Mr Stephen Marchisio, Ambassador of France to Singapore. “Beyond the screen, every edition of this festival is the result of a shared commitment, a partnership between our countries that thrives on creativity, dialogue and trust. Through films, we exchange ideas, celebrate our diversity, and discover how our stories resonate across cultures. The 41st edition of vOilah! is not only a celebration of French artistry, but also of the enduring bond between our nations and the belief that culture remains one of the strongest bridges between people.”
Echoing this celebration of cross-cultural friendship, festival partner Shaw Organisation continues to champion the belief that cinema transcends language, connecting people through stories that inspire reflection and understanding.
“French films have a unique way of capturing the human spirit, revealing how art can bridge worlds and spark understanding,” said Christopher Shaw, Executive Vice-President at Shaw Organisation. “We hope this year’s festival with its thoughtfully curated programme will not only entertain, but also inspire reflection, imagination and conversation long after the credits roll.”
From Page to Screen: Where Stories Take Flight
French cinema’s enduring relationship with literature takes centre stage in this year’s selection, transforming acclaimed novels and real events into moving, cinematic experiences.
13 Days 13 Nights (13 Jours 13 Nuits), directed by Martin Bourboulon, adapts Commander Mohamed Bida’s memoir 13 jours, 13 nuits dans l’enfer de Kaboul into a gripping political thriller. Roschdy Zem delivers a commanding performance as Bida, leading a team of French officers in a tense 13-day evacuation during the fall of Kabul, alongside Lyna Khoudri as a young Franco-Afghan humanitarian and Sidse Babett Knudsen as an American journalist caught in the chaos. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival 2025, the film captures both the adrenaline and humanity behind one of the decade’s defining moments.
Alongside this film, four other adaptations further highlight the creative dialogue between literature and film. Dog 51 (Chien 51), Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Amélie et la Métaphysique des Tubes), Dalloway, and The Great Arch (L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche) each reinterpret their source material in strikingly different ways, from childhood introspection and psychological tension to architectural ambition. Together, these five films underscore how French cinema continues to breathe visual and emotional life into the written word.
Into the Unknown: French Cinema and the Art of Science Fiction
Expanding on the festival’s focus with imaginative storytelling, this year’s line-up also ventures into the realm of science fiction, a genre through which French cinema continues to explore the boundaries of technology, identity and existence itself.
Featured in the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, la Biennale di Venezia 2025 and based on Laurent Gaudé’s science fiction novel is Dog 51 (Chien 51), directed by Cédric Jimenez. The film throws viewers into a dystopian Paris divided by class and controlled by a predictive AI. Gilles Lellouche and Adèle Exarchopoulos headline this noir-tinged thriller, blurring the line between surveillance and freedom.
Building on the futuristic intrigue of Dog 51 (Chien 51), Dalloway, directed by Yann Gozlan and starring Cécile de France and Mylène Farmer, delves into the unsettling relationship between creator and creation as a novelist turns to artificial intelligence for inspiration, only to find her own autonomy slipping away.
In Alpha, by Julia Ducournau, a haunting mother–daughter drama unfolds against a disquieting new reality, blurring the lines between body, transformation and control. Another must-see is The Incredible Shrinking Man (L’Homme qui Rétrécit), where Jan Kounen reimagines a classic existential tale, following Jean Dujardin as an ordinary man confronting a vast and perilous world after an inexplicable occurrence changes him forever. Together, these films showcase French cinema’s boldness in using science fiction not for spectacle alone, but as a look into the human condition.
La Magie du Cinéma: Stories for All Ages
From whimsical adventures to tender tales of friendship, the festival offers films for the whole family, reminding us that the joy of storytelling transcends age. Whether it’s a child’s first encounter with the silver screen or a parent’s nostalgic return to the cinema, this year’s line-up promises shared laughter, wonder, and a renewed love for film.
Audiences young and old can embark on adventures with Moon the Panda (Moon le Panda), directed by Gilles de Maistre, where 12-year-old Tian (played by Noé Liu Martane) befriends a lost panda cub in the misty mountains of China. With performances by Sylvia Chang, Liu Ye and Alexandra Lamy, the film is a heartwarming testament to courage and empathy.
Another unmissable family film is Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Amélie et la Métaphysique des Tubes), directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han. The film, which won the Public’s Choice Award at Annecy 2025, follows a young Belgian girl growing up in Japan as she discovers joy and heartbreak through the eyes of innocence.
History and Portraits of Influence
Several titles reinterpret real figures and historic moments through a distinctly French lens. The Great Arch (L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche), directed by Stéphane Demoustier and starring Claes Bang and Sidse Babett Knudsen, reconstructs the monumental creation of La Grande Arche de la Défense – the modernist symbol of Parisian ambition commissioned by President François Mitterrand. At its core lies the portrait of a visionary architect torn between idealism and the weight of politics, driven by a relentless pursuit of perfection. It’s a film about art, power and human conviction, echoing the spirit of innovation and resilience that defines French architectural history.
Other key screenings exploring the strength and complexity of the human spirit include The Richest Woman in the World (La Femme la Plus Riche du Monde) by Thierry Klifa, starring Isabelle Huppert as an elusive billionaire whose immense fortune masks a life of rivalry, desire and fragile vulnerability. In contrast, Muganga, The One Who Treats (Muganga, Celui Qui Soigne) by Marie-Hélène Roux pays tribute to Dr Denis Mukwege, the Congolese surgeon and Nobel Peace Prize laureate celebrated for his compassion and moral courage. Both films offer powerful portraits of resilience; individuals defined not by circumstance, but by the choices that reveal their deepest humanity.
France on the Big Screen: A Window into Life in France
Prepare to be whisked away by films that capture France’s essence. This selection of titles transports audiences through France in all its moods and colours, from the glamour of Parisian runways to the quiet corners of small towns.
Couture (Coutures), by Alice Winocour, features Angelina Jolie, Anyier Anei, Ella Rumpf and Garance Marillier in a moving intersection of glamour and mortality. Set amid the frenzy of Paris Fashion Week, it weaves together the stories of three women, a filmmaker, a model and a makeup artist whose paths collide in moments of vulnerability and solidarity.
The time twisting tale, Colours of Time (La Venue de l’Avenir), from Cédric Klapisch, bridges centuries in a lyrical drama about family, art and the legacy of memory. Premiering at the Cannes International Film Festival, it features Cécile de France and Vincent Macaigne, telling the story of a contemporary inheritance story with a 19th-century Parisian odyssey, a poetic dialogue between generations.
Bringing the Richness of French Cinema Closer to Everyone
To make French cinema accessible to everyone, the festival is once again partnering with People’s Association to bring PG-rated screenings beyond traditional theatres to community clubs, integrated community hubs and other public spaces. In partnership with Sentosa Development Corporation, open-air screenings will also take place at Palawan Beach. These initiatives continue a long-standing tradition of bringing stories to where people gather, transforming everyday spaces into cinemas. Through these free and family-friendly screenings, vOilah! extends the joy of French storytelling to new audiences across generations, fostering connection, curiosity and a shared love of film in the heart of Singapore’s communities.
Students and senior citizens can also enjoy preferential ticket rates for screenings at Alliance Française and Shaw Theatres, ensuring that French cinema remains within reach to audiences of all ages. With tickets priced at $11 (standard tickets at $16, and $14.50 for Alliance Française and Singapore Film Society members), the festival continues its commitment to making the magic of cinema available to all.
French Talents Lighting up Singapore
Festival audiences can look forward to special appearances by acclaimed guests including Gilles de Maistre (director of Moon the Panda) and Garance Marillier (star in Couture).
They will attend selected screenings, Q&A sessions and workshops, offering Singaporean audiences an intimate glimpse into the artistry and inspiration behind their films.
Schedule a Rendezvous with French Cinema
The 41st vOilah! French Film Festival warmly invites you to experience the magic of French cinema, its passion, artistry and heart. Be sure to catch this year’s diverse line-up of films, from powerful real-life dramas to uplifting family tales, and immerse yourself in stories that remind us why cinema continues to inspire, connect and move us all.
Details of all the films for vOilah! French Film Festival 2025 can be found here.
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About the 41st vOilah! French Film Festival
From 13 to 30 November 2025, the vOilah! French Film Festival returns for its 41st edition, proudly presented by the Embassy of France in Singapore in collaboration with local distributors, partners, and cultural institutions. This year’s festival features over 30 films, from gripping true stories and powerful literary adaptations to heartwarming family adventures that showcase the creativity and diversity of contemporary French cinema.
As Singapore’s longest-running foreign film festival, vOilah! continues to be a cornerstone of the nation’s cultural calendar, a platform that celebrates not only the artistry of French storytelling, but also the enduring friendship between France and Singapore. Through the universal language of film, the festival invites audiences to share in the spirit of discovery, connection and imagination that defines both nations.
- SNP builds on Palantir platforms to deliver new AI-powered solutions for solving mission-critical customer challenges
- The partnership will build on SNP’s strong base with more than 3,000 customers globally and 15,000 successful SAP transformation projects
- SNP and Palantir will leverage their strengths to help customers modernize their SAP landscapes and business processes in a predictable and secure way
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 July 2026 – SNP SE, a leading provider of software for AI-enabled digital transformation, automated data migration and data management in the SAP environment, and Palantir, a global leader in artificial intelligence and data platforms, today announced a strategic partnership at SNP’s flagship event, Transformation World, in Heidelberg, Germany. The collaboration positions SNP to develop new AI-powered solutions with an aligned approach to accelerate SAP transformations for joint customers.
The two partners will offer solutions for mission-critical challenges across all types of SAP projects, helping customers improve speed, efficiency and quality. The first joint solution, Test Data Proposal, solves a so far highly manual area of SAP migrations, the identification of relevant test data for given customer test cases. By leveraging AI, this process runs automatically and saves customers’ time and resources. Test Data Proposal will expand SNP’s proven Kyano® platform.
As part of the partnership, SNP and Palantir are also collaborating in large-scale moves to SAP Cloud ERP applications where customers seek to accelerate these modernization programs. Both companies combine complementary, category-leading strengths. SNP contributes deep real-world SAP data migration expertise while Palantir provides state-of-the-art AI-driven software platforms, which enable and accelerate secure modernizations for customers.
“Organizations are looking for new ways to increase speed, efficiency, and quality in large-scale SAP transformations,” said Jens Amail, CEO of SNP. “We are hugely excited to collaborate with Palantir, a company that has leveraged AI to revolutionize and accelerate the way enterprises modernize mission-critical systems and automate operations. Together, we will deliver secure outcomes and new solutions to customers and partners.”
“We have seen exceptional momentum accelerating SAP migrations for customers, and helping them do so via the Ontology and AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) in a way that significantly compresses the timeline and delivers operational value along the way,” said Sameer Kirtane, Head of US Commercial at Palantir. “SNP over the last 30 years has built an impressive track record of delivering predictable, compliant and auditable outcomes in thousands of successful engagements. We are proud to partner with SNP to fundamentally rethink how customers transform their SAP landscapes.”
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About SNP
SNP (ticker: SHF.DE) is the global technology platform leader and trusted partner for companies seeking unparalleled data-enabled transformation capabilities and business agility. SNP’s Kyano® platform integrates all necessary capabilities and partner offerings to provide a comprehensive software-based experience in data migration and management. Combined with the Bluefield® approach, Kyano sets a comprehensive industry standard for restructuring and modernizing enterprise data faster and more securely while harnessing AI-driven innovations based on over 30 years of experience.
The company works with more than 3,000 customers of all sizes and in all industries in over 80 countries, including numerous DAX 40 and Fortune 500 companies. The SNP Group has more than 1,600 employees worldwide at over 34 locations in 22 countries. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 297 million in the 2025 fiscal year.
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Cambodian secondary school championing environmental practices wins US$15,000 AIA Outstanding Health & Sustainability Award 2026
Now in its fourth year, the competition is a flagship initiative of the AIA Healthiest Schools programme (AHS), which empowers students aged 5 to 16 to embed healthy living into daily life across four key pillars: healthy eating, active living, mental wellbeing and sustainability.
Angchum Lower Secondary School was selected from nearly 1,000 entries across Asia-Pacific, the highest participation level since the programme’s launch, and was announced at a regional ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.
The AIA Healthiest Schools Competition challenges schools to turn their best health and wellbeing ideas into practical action. By applying what they have learned to real-life issues, students are embedding healthy habits into daily life while creating positive impact within schools and across their wider communities.
Stuart A. Spencer, Head Judge of the AIA Healthiest Schools Competition and AIA Group Chief Marketing Officer, said:
“The AIA Healthiest Schools Competition is the largest programme of its kind in Asia and is helping young people take ownership of their health by turning knowledge into action.
“Congratulations to Angchum Lower Secondary School from Cambodia. Your shining example will inspire countless others across the region, shaping a healthier future for young people all over Asia.”
In his speech at the event, Mr. Lee Yuan Siong, AIA Group Chief Executive and President, said:
“What is most powerful about this programme is that it turns health from something students are taught into something they do every day.”
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About the school:
Angchum Lower Secondary School in Kampot, Cambodia, faced limited staff, plastic-heavy canteen habits, inadequate sanitation facilities for female students, and unreliable access to clean water. Despite these constraints, the teachers, students, and the surrounding community chose to prioritise improvements in daily health and hygiene practices.
Students led the effort through the “Plastic-Free School” campaign, bringing reusable bottles and lunch boxes to reduce waste. Each class formed a Green Youth Club responsible for tree planting, garden care, and maintaining clean classrooms. Regular hygiene awareness sessions supported all students—especially girls—in building healthier daily routines.
Teachers reinforced these actions by integrating lessons on waste segregation, personal hygiene, and environmental protection across subjects. They also modelled positive behaviours by avoiding plastic bags and joining campus clean-up activities.
Quarterly cleanups, contributions of saplings and compost, and assistance in repairing the school’s clean-water system deepened school-community cooperation.
A structured implementation process — teacher preparation, student lessons, community meetings, surveys, and interviews — helped the school track progress and adjust plans. As a result, students now demonstrate strong environmental knowledge, practice sustainable habits, and share a growing sense of responsibility.
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Keeper Security surpasses $225M in ARR with transformative growth and is emerging as the market standard for AI-native identity security
Compelling path to $1billion ARR and public offering, fueled by product market fit in the agentic AI age, explosion of identities and related threats, and accelerating growth
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 July 2026 – Keeper Security (“Keeper” or “we”), the identity security platform for humans, machines and AI agents, today announced a major milestone in its journey to become the market standard for AI-native identity security, having reached $225 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Since 2021, Keeper’s ARR has grown over 3x.
Keeper protects over 95,000 organizations, which includes many Fortune 500 enterprises and public sector agencies. The company is quickly emerging as the market standard for AI-native identity security for enterprises globally with its leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform. In 2025, leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Keeper as the second-fastest-growing security software competitor globally, second only to Google.* This recognition underscores Keeper’s rapid market expansion in addressing identity security challenges created by cloud transformation and artificial intelligence adoption across enterprise infrastructure and endpoints.
Keeper is now growing at over 4x the industry average.
This market-leading growth is driven by the explosion of identities in the agentic AI age and relentless focus on innovation to protect customers, as evidenced by the release of its unified privileged access management and identity security platform, KeeperPAM®, which protects both human and Non-Human Identities (NHIs), including service accounts, machine identities, databases, AI agents and agentic workloads. Since the launch of KeeperPAM in February 2025, KeeperPAM revenue has exhibited 10x year-over-year growth and Keeper has seen industry-leading new customer growth, adding an average of 850 new organizations every month. In the last fifteen months, Keeper added over 400 innovative features and products to KeeperPAM.
“Identity is the new security perimeter,” said Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. “As enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents and autonomous systems, the number of privileged identities and machine credentials is growing exponentially. Organizations need a modern, unified platform that secures every identity – human and non-human – and governs every privileged interaction. Our growth reflects the market’s demand for a platform purpose-built to address these challenges.”
Keeper’s cloud-native cybersecurity platform delivers a comprehensive approach to identity security and privileged access management by unifying enterprise password management, secrets management, privileged session management, database management and endpoint privilege management in a single platform. Keeper’s AI-native identity security strategy seamlessly extends these capabilities to non-human identities and agentic AI environments, enabling organizations to discover, manage and secure machine credentials and autonomous workloads with the same rigor applied to human users.
As enterprises adopt AI technologies at scale, the proliferation of non-human identities is rapidly outpacing that of human identities by 150:1, according to reports, thereby creating new attack surfaces and operational complexity. Keeper’s platform helps organizations establish identity-first security strategies that provide security, visibility, governance and least-privilege controls across their entire identity ecosystem.
“Autonomous agents, frontier LLMs and machine-to-machine workflows are operating inside enterprise environments right now – without adequate governance, secrets management or access controls,” said Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. “Keeper is purpose-built to solve this problem at scale.”
The company’s continued growth and market recognition reinforce its position as one of the cybersecurity industry’s most innovative and fastest-growing providers of AI-native identity security and privileged access management solutions. Keeper’s financial profile combines best-in-class growth, profitability and a debt-free capital structure and is an asset positioned to efficiently lead identity security in the agentic AI age.
“Surpassing $225 million in ARR confirms what we’ve heard in every enterprise conversation – that securing non-human identities is the defining security challenge of the AI era,” said Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security. “We have established an accelerated path to $1 billion in ARR which, coupled with our technology roadmap, will provide optionality for a public offering.”
Source Citation:
Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Security Software, Worldwide, 2025, Rahul Yadav, Deepali, 11 May 2026
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About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security solution, trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. KeeperPAM® is Keeper’s privileged access management platform that unifies password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged session management and endpoint privilege management in a single cloud-native platform, protected with quantum-resistant encryption. KeeperAI delivers real-time, AI-native threat detection across every privileged session. As AI agents proliferate and identity becomes the defining attack surface, Keeper governs access for humans, machines, non-human identities and AI agents, serving as the unified control plane for access, compliance and visibility across the enterprise. For more information, visit
KeeperSecurity.com.
