{"id":307880,"date":"2026-02-24T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:09:08","slug":"anthony-chens-we-are-all-strangers-lands-global-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307880\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Chen’s ‘We Are All Strangers’ Lands Global Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnthony Chen\u2019s Berlinale competition title \u201cWe Are All Strangers<\/a>\u201d has proven to be a hot title, with Paris-based Paradise City Sales<\/a> locking in distribution partners across the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film made history as the first Singaporean entry ever to compete in Berlin\u2019s main competition section. Among the deals closed are ARP Selection (France), Curzon (U.K. and Ireland), Elastica Films (Spain), Trigon Film (Switzerland), A-One Films (Baltics), Ama Films (Greece), Golden Scene (Hong Kong), Movicloud (Taiwan), Challan (South Korea), PT Falcon (Indonesia) and Moving Turtle (Middle East and North Africa), with additional negotiations still ongoing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new film rounds out what Chen has called his \u201cGrowing Up\u201d trilogy, a body of work that began with \u201cIlo Ilo,\u201d which won the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or at Cannes, and continued with \u201cWet Season.\u201d Set in contemporary Singapore, the new film again features Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler, who have appeared throughout the trilogy. Paradise City Sales has represented Chen\u2019s work internationally across all three films, as well as \u201cDrift,\u201d with the films collectively travelling to Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and Berlin.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is written and directed by Chen and produced by Teoh Yi Peng, Huang Wenhong and Chen for Giraffe Pictures, with Joe Tsai, Arthur Wang and KH Kuok serving as executive producers. Financing comes from 127 Wall Productions, Jasper Productions and the Singapore Film Commission with support from the Red Sea Fund and the MPA APSA Academy Film Fund.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDreams swiftly turn to survival strategies in\u00a0Anthony Chen<\/a>\u2018s gentle, perceptive domestic saga, and love isn\u2019t always enough to live on,\u201d wrote Guy Lodge, reviewing the film for Variety<\/a>. \u201cThe film is consistently involving and finally moving, sparked especially by Chen regular Yeo Yann Yann\u2019s wonderful performance as an immigrant outsider in this family and society alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve long appreciated Anthony\u2019s work, and it\u2019s a pleasure to finally be able to work together on \u2018We Are All Strangers,\u2019 a film which has the rare ability to build a deep intimacy with its characters whilst also revealing the heart of a nation,\u201d said Curzon managing director Louisa Dent. \u201cWe believe it will be a welcome discovery for audiences in the U.K. and Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are incredibly proud to work with Anthony Chen and to bring his deeply moving and universal cinema to Spanish audiences,\u201d said Elastica director Enrique Costa. \u201cWith \u2018We Are All Strangers,\u2019 he crafts a powerful and emotionally resonant portrait of the family we are born into and the family we choose, confirming his place as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther titles on the Paradise City Sales slate include Moshe Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cTell Me Everything,\u201d in Sundance\u2019s World Cinema Competition; Warwick Thornton\u2019s \u201cWolfram,\u201d competing at the Berlinale; and Mees Peijnenburg\u2019s \u201cA Family,\u201d which picked up a Special Mention in the Berlinale Generation section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Chen\u2019s Berlinale competition title \u201cWe Are All Strangers\u201d has proven to be a hot title, with Paris-based…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[154665,146,85,46,397,644,154666],"class_list":["post-307880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anthony-chen","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-paradise-city-sales","tag-we-are-all-strangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}