During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
Acting
Yeo Yann Yann's bottled-rage mother is devastating.
Direction
Chen finds poetry in cramped HDB flats.
Writing
No villains, just people failing at being good.
Director
Anthony Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anthony Chen shot this on a $700,000 budget—his debut feature—and beat The Grandmaster to win Cannes' Camera d'Or.
The title refers to Iloilo, Philippines, but Singaporeans pronounce it 'ee-loh ee-loh'—the linguistic gap between Teresa and the family she serves.
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