Stranger Eyes
Southeast Asian Premiere
Yeo Siew Hua Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA 2024 126 min NC16 (Sexual Scene)
The fear and desire of being watched conjure new realisations in this mystery thriller that follows an estranged couple and their stalker.
Months after the disappearance of their toddler, Junyang and Peiying reel from the police’s waning investigations. When they begin to receive mysterious DVDs containing secretly filmed footage of their lives, their suburban facades crumble and repressed resentments surface. Desperate to uncover the voyeur, Junyang gradually sinks into a quicksand of surveillance and self-confrontation.
With taut but measured pacing, Stranger Eyes is a mystery thriller that comments on the growing scopophilia in our networked era. The prevalence of cameras all around us no longer just elicits the horror and anxieties of being watched constantly, but also gives rise to a complex desire to be truly seen.
Through the fractures in a middle-class family, Yeo Siew Hua’s fourth feature evokes the simmering madness behind gazes that become stranger and stranger, wrapped in layers of power, mediation and performance.
Audience Choice Award
28 Nov, Thu 8:00PM / 126 min
Capitol Theatre
Q&A with Filmmaker(s), Audience Choice Award
29 Nov, Fri 4:00PM / 126 min
National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre
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Stranger Eyes
默視錄
Yeo Siew Hua
Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA
2024
Mandarin
English
126 min
NC16 (Sexual Scene)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Yeo Siew Hua
Yeo Siew Hua’s sophomore narrative feature, A Land Imagined (2018), won the Golden Leopard at Locarno and Best Asian Feature Film at the 29th SGIFF. Stranger Eyes made history as the first local film to be selected for the main competition at Venice. Yeo is a member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and a founding member of the 13 Little Pictures film collective.
Wu Chien-ho,
Lee Kang-sheng,
Anicca Panna,
Fran Borgia,
Stefano Centini,
Jean-Laurent Csinidis,
Alex C. Lo
