Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes has been selected to open the 2024 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival where it will also make its Asian premiere. The festival takes place from Nov 7 to 24.
The film, a Singapore-Taiwan-France-UK co-production, stars Golden Horse best actor winner Lee Kang-sheng (Stray Dogs), Wu Chien-ho, Vera Chen, Annica Panna and Xenia Tan.
In a press release shared by the festival, Yeo said: “It is a real honour for us to have our film open for the Golden Horse Film Festival, which holds such an important place in my heart as a Chinese filmmaker”.
Stranger Eyes is also currently competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival where it made its world premiere on Sep 5. It is competing for the festival’s highest honour against Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie A Deux and Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, among other films.
The film is described as such by the 2024 Golden Horse Film Festival: “In Stranger Eyes, a young couple begins to receive strange videos after the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, realising someone has been filming their daily life – even their most intimate moments. As the identity of the voyeur and the truth behind these videos are revealed, the family starts to crumble.”
Yeo had previous directed A Land Imagined – another film that boosted Singapore’s profile in the global film scene. The 2018 film clinched the top prize at the 71st Locarno Film Festival, and won best original score and best original screenplay at the 56th Golden Horse Awards.
