A Land Imagined
Neo-realistic drama about an overtired detective investigating the disappearance of a Chinese construction worker in Singapore. Winner of the Golden Leopard in Locarno.
Please note that this film is in Bengali, English and Mandarin, with Dutch subtitles.
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, France, Netherlands, Singapore, 2018, 95 min. Bengali, English & Mandarin spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Peter Yu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yue Guo, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico.