A LAND IMAGINED
by Yeo Siew Hua
synopsis
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.
international title: | A Land Imagined |
original title: | Huan tu |
country: | Singapore, France, Netherlands |
sales agent: | Visit Films (US) |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Yeo Siew Hua |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | FR 6/03/2019 |
screenplay: | Yeo Siew Hua |
cast: | Peter Yu, Xiaoyi Liu, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico |
cinematography by: | Hideho Urata |
film editing: | Daniel Hui |
art director: | James Page |
costumes designer: | Meredith Lee |
producer: | Fran Borgia |
production: | Films de Force Majeure, Volya Films, Akanga Film Asia (SG), MM2 Entertainment (SG) |
backing: | CNC (Cinémas du monde) (FR), The Netherlands Film Fund (NL), Hubert Bals Fund (NL), IMDA (New Talents Feature Grant) (SG), MM2 Entertainment (SG), Vietnam Prize (SG) |
distributor: | Epicentre Films |