Stranger Eyes

Stranger Eyes

Director: Yeo Siew Hua
Country: Singapore, Taiwan, France

2024 | 126 min. | Chinese
Subtitles: German, English
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance

Cast_ Wu Chien-Ho, Lee Kang-sheng, Anicca Panna, Vera Chen, Pete Teo Screenplay_ Yeo Siew Hua Camera_ Hideho Urata Producer_ Fran Borgia, Stefano Centini, Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Alex C. Lo Rights_ Playtime

A child disappears without a trace. A multi-layered, twist-filled surveillance thriller with echoes of Michael Haneke, Brian De Palma, and Alfred Hitchcock.

It’s one of the worst things imaginable for parents: your own child disappears without a trace. But that’s not all. Suddenly, the couple in question starts receiving strange video recordings. Someone has filmed their everyday life, even its most intimate moments. Is the voyeur also their daughter’s kidnapper? To find out, the police sets up surveillance cameras of their own. Even the father eventually picks up his camera. Until all of a sudden it’s as if everyone were looking through a lens and directly into the dark depths of humanity. Highly suspenseful paranoia thriller about the power of seeing and the inevitability of being seen.

Director

Yeo Siew Hua is from Singapore, where he graduated in film and philosophy. He has written and directed numerous short films. His second feature, ›A Land Imagined‹ (2018), was the first film from Singapore to win the Golden Leopard at Locarno. The film was also suggested for the Oscars.

Trailer

Screenings

  • AvailableThursday 14.11.202417:30HeidelbergHDLuxor (Crown)
  • AvailableThursday 14.11.202420:45MannheimMACineplex (Saal 3)
  • AvailableSunday 17.11.202414:15MannheimMAStadthaus N1