{"id":8063,"date":"2026-02-10T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8063\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:11:07","slug":"we-are-all-strangers-first-look-anthony-chens-berlin-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/8063\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We Are All Strangers’ First Look: Anthony Chen’s Berlin Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first image from Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWe Are All Strangers<\/a>\u201d might evoke the iconic wedding in the opening scene of Edward Yang\u2019s Taiwanese drama \u201cYi Yi.\u201d Both dramas from Asia offer a panorama of a family rocked by unexpected circumstances and grappling with the mundane realities of an economic life mismatched to their goals. While the connections are vast, it\u2019s reductive to keep making comparisons, as the \u201cWet Season\u201d and \u201cIlo Ilo\u201d director\u2019s fifth feature is its own big, beautiful beast of a movie. Watch an exclusive clip in the video above.<\/p>\n

The first Singaporean film<\/a> ever to play in competition at the Berlin Film Festival<\/a>, Chen\u2019s new drama features his perennial star Yeo Yann Yann as Bee Hwa, a beer waitress who marries into a single-fathered family. The patriarch, Boon Kiat (Andi Lim), runs a noodle stand while his son (Koh Jia Ler) is conscripted, so young, into the army \u2014 until a major life twist brings him back to the homestead, and with a new stepmother at the helm. The scene above offers a glimpse of Boon Kiat and Bee Hwa\u2019s wedding, with cinematographer Teoh Gay Hian.<\/p>\n

\"SINNERS,<\/a> \"SINNERS,<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is big, earnest, open-hearted cinema with a compassionate eye for its characters \u2014 even at their lowest moments, especially as \u201cWe Are All Strangers\u201d takes a twist toward crime drama as legal issues mount for this new, found, patched-together family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are All Strangers\u201d marks the third and last chapter of Anthony Chen\u2019s \u201cGrowing Up\u201d trilogy, following \u201cIlo Ilo\u201d and \u201cWet Season.\u201d All his films deal with the fragile dynamics within families, the class issues pressing upon them. The Singapore-born filmmaker took a hiatus from this trilogy to make the simmering love triangle drama \u201cThe Breaking Ice,\u201d which played Cannes in 2023<\/a>. Chen took on his sole English-language project so far with 2023\u2019s \u201cDrift,\u201d<\/a> starring Cynthia Erivo as a Liberian refugee grappling with her past on a remote Greek island.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are All Strangers\u201d premieres at the Berlin Film Festival<\/a> on February 16; it\u2019s currently seeking U.S. distribution. Watch the IndieWire-exclusive clip from the film above.<\/p>\n

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