“Stranger Eyes,” Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s feature film about modern surveillance culture, has been sold to a large number of countries by Playtime ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The film, which is competing for the Golden Lion at Venice, centers on a young couple struggling to cope with the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter when they begin receiving strange videos and realize that someone has been filming their daily lives. Police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur, but the family begins to unravel as secrets are unraveled under the surveillance.

In the run-up to the premiere at the Lido, the film was sold by Playtime to Italy (Europictures), Spain (La Aventura), the Baltic countries (A-One), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes) and the Benelux (September Films).

The director explained in the film’s press notes that Singapore was the ideal setting for the film because it is a “small island nation… where there is no escape from the grid, watching and being watched becomes a daily ritual.” He also says that the themes of “Stranger Eyes” are timely because our constant need for “visual consumption” “feels both limitless and alienating.”