Screening times:
Friday, October 24, 6:30 PM
Sunday, October 26, 7:45 PM
Yeo Siew Hua | Singapore, USA, Taiwan, France | 2024 | 126m
Mandarin with English subtitles
After enduring months of a fruitless police investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, a young, estranged couple, Junyang and Peiying, realize they are being filmed surreptitiously when they begin receiving mysterious packages at their door containing DVDs with footage of their daily lives.
The moments captured are unnerving not only for the violation of their privacy, but for what is exposed about Junyang and Peiying’s relationship on a most intimate level. Suspecting the voyeur is responsible for taking their daughter, the couple embark on a desperate mission to seek him out, only to find the truth of his identity is more complicated than it seems.
Featuring legendary Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng, Stranger Eyes references other surveillance thrillers like Michael Haneke’s Cache and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, updated for an era where everyone has a camera at any moment. Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s latest feature is a timely update to the genre as a meditation on voyeurism in the digital age and the contradictory desires around being seen.
“What begins as a crime thriller ends as a transfixing meditation on our personal need for recognition and the difficulty of finding this for ourselves or providing that for others.” - Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire
“Amid its consistently tense, paranoid thriller trappings, Yeo’s film also functions in close-up, as a bittersweet, slightly broken-hearted character study, and a paean to lost era of community and trust.” - Guy Lodge, Variety
“Siew Hua shows that surveillance isn’t only about control—it’s also about how we see ourselves through someone else’s eyes. In the end, the film leaves us unsettled with the idea that being watched doesn’t just change how we act, it changes who we become.” - Alan Ng, Film Threat
Tickets $12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available)
