Stranger Eyes

Directed by Yeo Siew Hua

Singapore

2024

126 mins

Unclassified 18+

Anonymous CCTV recordings show up on a grieving couple’s doorstep after their baby goes missing in this twisty thriller, the first-ever Singaporean film in competition at Venice.

In bustling Singapore, young couple Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna) are despondent after the abduction of their child. Soon, they begin receiving DVDs with footage of their final moments with her, setting off a tense police investigation. Suspicion falls on their enigmatic neighbour, Wu (Tsai Ming-liang collaborator Lee Kang-sheng, superb), and surveillance on everyone intensifies, causing cracks in the couple’s own façade. Soon, buried secrets and hidden desires surface in their cramped high-rise apartment. This evocative and surprising thriller from Locarno winner Yeo Siew Hua (A Land Imagined) brings Rear Window and Caché (Hidden) into the age of screens, surveillance culture and urban sprawl.

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“Stranger Eyes comments thoughtfully on a collective eradication of private life via sundry screens and lenses, and a fraying of the social fabric as a result”

Guy Lodge, Variety

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Fri 6 June 2025, 8:20pm

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Mon 9 June 2025, 6:30pm

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Sun 15 June 2025, 6:30pm

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Program Strand
Features
Original Title
默視錄
Year
2024
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Country
Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA
Language
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Director
Yeo Siew Hua
Producer
Fran Borgia, Stefano Centini, Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Alex C. Lo
Cast
Anicca Panna, Lee Kang-sheng, Wu Chien-ho
Screenwriter
Yeo Siew Hua
Cinematographer
Hideho Urata
Editor
Jean-Christophe Bouzy
Genre
Asia, Thriller & Crime
Premiere
Australian Premiere
Company Credits
Australian Distributor: Palace Films
Official Website
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