“Stranger Eyes,” Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua‘s feature on modern surveillance culture, has been sold by Playtime to a raft of territories ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which is in contention for the Golden Lion at Venice, revolves around a young couple who is grappling with the mysterious disappearance […]

Thai director Lee Thongkam is shooting “The Bride,” a horror film that marks a rare co-production between Thai and Vietnamese companies. “The Bride” follows a young Vietnamese woman (portrayed by Rima Thanh Vy) engaged to her rich Thai boyfriend (played by “J.J.” Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram), who visit her fiance’s wealthy rural hometown in Thailand. The journey […]

The first trailer for Mike Leigh’s latest feature “Hard Truths” had been unveiled, showing its lead star Marianne Jean-Baptiste embarking on an angry rampage against supermarket check out clerks, unsuspecting members of the public and her family. “People, can’t stand ’em,” she exclaims in the trailer, released ahead of the film’s world premiere in Toronto […]