Singapore has tapped “Stranger Eyes” as its official submission for the 98th Academy Awards‘ best international feature film category, the Singapore Film Commission has revealed.
The surveillance thriller, written and directed by Yeo Siew Hua, made history as the first Singaporean film selected for the main competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it world premiered at the 81st edition. The atmospheric psychological drama explores themes of surveillance, grief and identity.
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This marks Yeo’s second Oscar submission following “A Land Imagined,” which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno and represented Singapore in 2018.
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