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Siew Hua Yeo

Siew Hua Yeo

Director, writer and producer, also editor · Born April 1, 1985 (41) · Singapore

Venice award nominee

In 2018, Yeo won the Golden Leopard award at the 71st Locarno Film Festival with A Land Imagined, and went on to win Best Film at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards, under the Asian Feature Film Competition. It is the first time that a Singapore film has won the award. Yeo is currently working on his next feature film, Stranger Eyes.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
April 1, 1985 (41)
From
Singapore
Works as
Director, writer and producer, also editor
Titles
3 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Down 19% in 30 days

What are Siew Hua Yeo's films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Power.

Themes

share of theme weight
Society
47%
Power
17%
Morality
17%
Ideas
13%
Self
7%
Isolation2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 3 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 0 · Dark 2

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Gentle: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their gentle movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 0

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0

Full focus: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their full focus movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 0 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2

Ambiguous: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their ambiguous movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 1 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
3
Tense
2
Cold
1
Warm
1
Melancholic
1
Other
1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Siew Hua Yeo's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 3 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Siew Hua Yeo's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

15 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.

  • Elder Son (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Associate Producer

  • Kopitiam Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

    Director · Writer

  • Stranger Eyes(2024)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • Deep End (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 5 episodes · Director · Creator · Writer

  • The Wandering (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Co-Director · Writer

  • An Invocation to the Earth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Director · Writer

  • Incantation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

    Director · Producer

  • A Land Imagined(2018)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Sanjay (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Writer

  • The Minotaur (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Director

  • The Obs: A Singapore Story(2014)

    Director · Editor · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • Wormhole (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director

  • In the House of Straw (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Director · Writer

  • Nightless Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Original Story

  • The Blue Flower (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

Career shape

A full career of 15 titles, 14 of them dated from 2007 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Stranger Eyes (2024)

$13K worldwide

Highest rated

A Land Imagined (2018)

Midcredits 47th

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing12 of 15: 3 only directing, 9 with another roleWriting10 of 15: 2 only writing, 8 with another roleProducing2 of 15: 1 only producing, 1 with another roleOther crew1 of 15: 0 only other crew, 1 with another role

15 titles, 9 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 8 of them.

By decade

2000s2 · crew2010s6 · crew2020s6 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Awards

Nominated for a Venice award in 2024, Best Film.

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Siew Hua Yeo's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 47th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 48th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

48thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Approval · how many liked their films

44thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Reach · how many have seen their films

67thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 3

Midcredits score across 3 titles, by percentile

  • 50th to 74th1
  • 25th to 49th2

Shape of the crowd

2 of their 3 titles are Broadly Agreed.

  • Divisive1
  • Broadly Agreed2

Most divisive · director, writer, producer, editor

The Obs: A Singapore Story (2014)

92nd percentile spread · 33% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · director, writer

A Land Imagined (2018)

Midcredits 47th · 46% liked

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Siew Hua Yeo work with?

People who share at least 2 of Siew Hua Yeo's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Dan Koh shares the most, 3.

Cinematographers

Producers