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Director Yeo Siew Hua
Year 2018
Lenght 95’
Country Singapore | Francia | Olanda
Language Mandarino | Inglese | Bengali
Screenplay Yeo Siew Hua
Cinematography Hideho Urata
Music Teo Wei Yong
Cast Theresa Peter Yu, Luna Kwok, Liu Xiaoyi, Jack Tan, Ishtiacuqe Zico
Subtitles English
Genre Drama
Première: Locarno Festival
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.
YEO Siew Hua studied philosophy at the National University of Singapore and is a member of the 13 Little Pictures film collective. He wrote and directed the experimental film, IN THE HOUSE OF STRAW (2009). 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.