A Land Imagined

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Somewhere in the industrial zone of Singapore, the most radically developing country in the world, people’s secrets are buried under the sand dunes of a reclamation site. As a sleepless police investigator follows the traces of a missing Chinese worker, an unexpected, immersive mystery unravels – parallel to the mystery of life of those who lost their sleep but keep dreaming, staying forever temporary in the vast landscape of global inequalities.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Yeo Siew Hua

Script: Yeo Siew Hua

Cinematography: Hideho Urata

Editing: Daniel Hui

Sound: Damien Guillame, Gilles Benardeau

Music: Teo Wei Yong

Actors: Peter Yu, Liu Xiaoyi, Luna Kwok, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico, Kelvin Ho, George Low, Andie Chen

Production: Akanga Film Asia, mm2 Entertainment, Films de Force Majeure, Volya Films

Producers: Fran Borgia

Co-producers: Gary Goh, Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Denis Vaslin

Art Direction: James Page

Costumes: Meredith Lee

Executive producer: Melvin Ang, Ng Say Yong

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Singapore, France, The Netherlands

Production Year: 2018

Duration: 95΄

Contact: Visit Films, ts@visitfilms.com

Awards/Distinctions: Golden Leopard, Junior Jury Award, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Locarno IFF 2018

Yeo Siew Hua

Yeo Siew Hua studied Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and is a member of the “13 Little Pictures” film collective. He participated in the 2015 edition of Talents Tokyo and pitched at Autumn Meeting 2016, where he won the Grand Prix for his second fiction feature, A Land Imagined (2018). The film also took part in the Asia Pacific Screen Lab 2017 and is a recipient of the Hubert Bals Fund and the Aide aux Cinema du Monde.