Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers will open in Singapore cinemas on 20 August 2026.
Distributed locally by Golden Village Pictures and Giraffe Pictures, the film became the first Singaporean title selected for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition in 2026, where it competed for the Golden Bear. It later opened the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The story follows 21-year-old Junyang (Koh Jia Ler) and his widowed father Boon Kiat (Andi Lim). Junyang and his girlfriend Lydia (Regene Lim) are pushed towards adulthood by an unexpected pregnancy, while Boon Kiat begins a relationship with Bee Hwa (Yeo Yann Yann). The two couples must work out how to live together as one household.
Its English and Mandarin titles approach that relationship from opposite directions. We Are All Strangers becomes 我们不是陌生人 — or We Are Not Strangers — in Mandarin, reflecting the distance between the four characters and the possibility that circumstance might turn them into a family.
We Are All Strangers is the final instalment in Chen’s thematic Growing Up trilogy, following Ilo Ilo in 2013 and Wet Season in 2019. The films are standalone stories rather than direct sequels, but each examines family relationships and changing ideas of adulthood in Singapore.
Screening schedules and ticketing details have not yet been announced.