A Land Imagined

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Director:Yeo Siew Hua
Cast:Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan
Length:95 minutes
Genre:Drama, Mystery

A Land Imagined

A Land Imagined; Yeo Siew Hua, 2018, versions: OR,SS,ES, languages: ben, eng, zho

Director: Yeo Siew Hua • Scenario: Yeo Siew Hua • Camera: Hideho Urata • Cast: Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico, Kelvin Ho, George Low, Andie Chen

Set in industrial Singapore, police investigator Lok must find missing migrant worker Wang. Wang 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, Lok digs deep into the trail leading to a land reclamation site, in order to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.– The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

Length: 95 min

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Singapore

Language version:

OR - Original version (bengali, english, chinese)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles

Director: Yeo Siew Hua • Scenario: Yeo Siew Hua • Camera: Hideho Urata • Cast: Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico, Kelvin Ho, George Low, Andie Chen

Set in industrial Singapore, police investigator Lok must find missing migrant worker Wang. Wang 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, Lok digs deep into the trail leading to a land reclamation site, in order to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.– The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • France
  • Netherlands
  • Singapore

Language version:

OR - Original version (bengali, english, chinese)
SS - Slovak subtitles
ES - English subtitles