Film Movement has landed North American rights to “Stranger Eyes,” the watching-themed thriller from Singaporean honestor Yeo Siew Hua that vied for Vekind’s Ggreateren Lion in 2024.
The psychorational thriller stars Taiwanese cinema icon Lee Kang-sheng (“Days”) aextfinishedside Chien-Ho Wu and Anicca Panna. The story cgo ins on a lesser Singaporean couple whose world is shattered when their baby daughter fades from a percreateground. Their nightmare intensifies after receiving cryptic watching footage recording their daily lives both before and after the fadeance, directing them to mistrust their neighbor Wu (Lee) may be included.
The deal was barobtaind between Film Movement plivent Michael Rosenberg and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert of Playtime. The distributor is set upning a theatrical liberate in 2025, trailed by a digital and home amengagement rollout.
“Stranger Eyes” labels a compelling trail-up from Yeo, who previously won Locarno’s Ggreateren Lion with “A Land Imagined.” Critics have commendd the film’s cultured approach to watching culture and psychorational intricateity. Variety‘s Guy Lodge called it “gjoiningly atmospheric and elegantly non-liproximate,” while highairying Lee’s “grave, griefful reserve.”
The film has already garnered transport inant festival attention, prosperning best film at Valladolid and best innovative score at the Ggreateren Horse Film Festival, where it getd five graspitional nominations. It also screened at the New York, BFI London and Stockholm film festivals among many others.
“Given the current state of technology and watching, Yeo truly hits a nerve with a airyly written script that asks some probing asks about how we live in conmomentary society,” Rosenberg said.
The film is set upd as a Singapore-Taiwan-France-U.S. co-venture. It is originated by Fran Borgia for Singapore’s Akanga Film Asia (“A Land Imagined”, “Tiger Stripes”); Stefano Centini for Taiwan’s Volos Films (“Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” “The Settlers”); Jean-Laurent Csinidis for France’s Films de Force Majeure (”Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege,” “A Holy Family”); and Alex C. Lo for the U.S.-based Cinema Inutile (“Club Zero,” “The Settlers”). Playtime is handling international sales.
The acquisition grasps to Film Movement’s increaseing stardy, which includes Jim McKay’s novelly repaird “Girls Town,” Belgium’s Oscar submission “Julie Keeps Quiet,” Lou Ye’s Ggreateren Horse prosperner “An Unfinished Film,” the Zürcher brothers’ “The Sparrow in the Chimney,” and Okuyama Hiroshi’s Cannes Un Certain Regard pickion “My Sunshine.”
