The House on the Moon 明月共此时

The House on the Moon

明月共此时

Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, Indonesia | 2026 | Sci-Fi, Wu Xia, Fantasy | 104 min | (o.v.) Mandarin, Hokkien Dialect

Director: Nelson Yeo

Screenwriter: Nelson Yeo, Vicki Yang

Producer: Tan Si En, Wendy Lie, Kuek Shee Heng

Co-producer: Jonas Weydemann, Jakob Weydemann, Terence Choi, Yulia Evina Bhara

Cinematographer: Lincoln Yeo

Virtual Art Designer: Maximilian Liang

Costume Designer: Meredith Lee

Stunt Designer: Sunny Pang

Editor: Hoping Chen

Sound Designer: Vincent Villa

Visual Effects: Rudolf Germann

Post Supervisor & Colourist: Eugene Seah

Music Composer: Kasimyn

Assistant Director: Chuah Wei Qi

Production Manager: Susan Wo

Starring: Lim Shi-An, Akira Huang, Harry Chang, Dominick Rustam

Cast: Doreen Toh, Lim Chin Huat, Edward Tan, Lee Kang-sheng

Synopsis

In the House on the Moon lives, Chang Er, a moon goddess and and her lover, Hou Yi the archer. Hou Yi embarks on a quest to save the dying sun, leaving Chang Er behind. While waiting for her lover, she saves and nurses a marooned Bandit back to health. Together they journey to the dark side of the moon to find Hou Yi. Along the way, they meet other lunar inhabitants, who offer them prophecies and directions to the whereabout of Hou Yi. Little did they know that they will fall for each other. The Bandit reveals to Chang Er that like them, he is an exile from Earth, wrongfully accused of a crime. Their journey leads them to Peng Meng, who has come in search of Chang Er’s last remaining elixir of immortality. They find Hou Yi who has been captured and impregnated with Peng Meng himself. Hou Yi decides to sacrifice himself to save the dying sun. Chang Er dips the last of Hou Yi’s arrows with the last remaining Elixir of Immortality and fires it into Hou Yi’s heart, blasting him onto the dying sun, reigniting its core. When Chang Er reopens her eyes, she sees no one around. Instead in the faint distant horizon, stands a house that looks exactly like hers… Has she travelled around the moon to return to exactly where she started?

Festival&Award

2026 Locarno Film Festival

- Concorso Internazionale

Director’s Statement

As a child, my dad will always bring me to the VHS rental store. Amongst a healthy dose of sci-fi, horror and wu xia…

I remember fondly the genre-defying Hong Kong cinema of the 90s. I never really noticed how unique and influential those films were to me until I’m much older, having subconsciously adapting this unique style of filmmaking into my own works.

I want The House on the Moon to be a film that blends and bends genres, defying any form of categorisations and challenging audience’s expectations at every turn, capturing that spirit and magic of the 90s HK cinema that I love.

The House on the Moon is, at its heart, a lunar road movie that delves into identity and the quest for self-discovery.

It poses a timeless question: are we defined by the roles society assigns us, or do we have the power to shape who we become?

Nelson YEO

Nelson YEO is a Singaporean filmmaker. His inaugural feature film, Dreaming & Dying, made an impactful debut at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2023, and won the coveted Filmmakers of the Present – Golden Leopard (Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente) award and Swatch First Feature Award at Locarno International Film Festival 2023. His work is marked by a distinctively poetic and thought-provoking style, blending narrative depth with visual experimentation.

Nelson's career has been supported by prestigious industry programs, including Berlinale Talents Tokyo (2014), BiFan Fantastic Film School (2015), and the Locarno Filmmakers Academy (2018). His short films have been selected for numerous international festivals, including Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and Cairo International Film Festival.

Notable accolades in his short film career includes Through Your Eyes (2025) which premiered in Berlin International Film Festival, Durian, Durian (2025) which premiered in International Film Festival Rotterdam. Best Experimental Short for Mary, Mary, So Contrary (2019) at the Golden Ger International Film Festival, Best ASEAN Short Film at the Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival for Here is Not There (2020), and Best Singapore Short Film at the Singapore International Film Festival for the same film. In 2022, his short Plastic Sonata won the Cathay Play Best Chinese Short Film Award at the SeaShorts Film Festival.

His work continues to resonate on the global stage, with projects in development winning awards at international markets.