A Land Imagined

Director : Siew Hua Yeo / France, Netherlands, Singapore/2018/Colour/95’/Bengali, English, Mandarin

Awards/Festivals

Locarno International Film Festival

Hamburg Film Festival

Synopsis
Wang, a migrant industrial worker in Singapore suffers a worksite accident and is anxious about repatriation. Unable to sleep, Wang starts frequenting a dreamy cybercafé in the dead of the night. Hoping to look for some form of human connection in this foreign land he feels alienated from, Wang forms a virtual friendship with a mysterious gamer that takes a sinister turn.When Wang suddenly disappears, police investigator Lok is appointed to find him.He digs deep into the trail leading to a land reclamation site.

Crew
Director and Screenplay Siew Hua Yeo
Producer Fran Borgia DoP Hideho Urata
Editor Daniel Hui
Music Wei Yong Teo

Cast
Peter Yu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yue Guo, Jack Tan